Word: hilsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreign Affairs Editor William Bundy, who was Assistant Secretary of State in the Johnson Administration, believes that "we've done far more than [South Viet Nam] could reasonably have expected at every stage of the proceedings." Bundy's predecessor at the State Department, Roger Hilsman, now a professor at Columbia University, found that "the phrase, 'What we owe the Vietnamese is a peace,' strikes home...
...Roger Hilsman...
...some, he is a Korean exemplar of Americanism and anti-Communism who merits fond words from the superpatriotic Sons of the American Revolution. To others, he is an international educator who lures students to indoctrination seminars with guest lectures by such big-name academics as Political Scientists Roger Hilsman and Samuel P. Huntington...
...that he thought the war could not be won. But then Johnson dropped out of the race and Nixon figured that he did not need to take any dramatic stand on Viet Nam. Rejecting Whalen's speech, he adopted the Vietnamization policy urged by-of all people-Roger Hilsman, the architect of counterinsurgency during the Kennedy Administration. After quitting the State Department because of a disagreement with Dean Rusk, Hilsman was now offering advice to the Republican candidate, and the galling thing was, says Whalen, that Nixon took it. "Such promiscuous brain picking revealed in due course the near...
Also, the President must read what is laid before him with a calculating eye. If, for example, the source of one analysis is the CIA, Hilsman says, he must ask himself: "What axes is the agency grinding at.that moment? What is the agency's response likely to be if the President ignores its advice? To whom will the information then be leaked? And at what price to the President?" A President may well get conflicting advice from the CIA, the Defense Department, the State Department, his White House foreign affairs advisers -but he must make a decision. He must...