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...revealed his priorities in a memorandum to the Faculty on May 28 in which he outlined ten areas of undergraduate education he feels are in need of reevaluation. Among the ten, the length of undergraduate education is listed first; indeed, Bok is vitally interested in exploring the feasibility of a three-year degree program...
...style is utterly different; his chief concern, as demonstrated by his memorandum to the Faculty, lies in the academic sphere. At the Law School, for instance, his pet projects were markedly academic: curriculum and grading reform; joint degree programs with the Business School, the Kennedy School of Government and the History Department; credit for clinical law programs; and programs for research in the fields of criminal law and law and education...
Kissinger's first act as Nixon's advisor was to commission an options memorandum on the progress of the war in Vietnam; he began work on the study as early as December 1968. In the months preceding the study, the military state of affairs in Indo-china had been the subject of a raging controversy inside the various departments. The outgoing Presidential advisors and the upper crust of Washington's foreign service were claiming that the NLF had grown significantly weaker since the Tet offensive the previous February, that the Communist military campaign would fold in a matter of months...
KISSINGER'S solution was to split the Vietnam memorandum in two; the first part would contain a list of options on what to do about Vietnam, and the second would be a list of specific questions on the progress of the war. It was the questions part of the study-the first in what became known as National Security Study Memoranda-which Kissinger said had been designed to reveal the differing points of view. This he proposed to accomplish in an unprecedented way-by putting identical sets of questions to different departments, questions which, in the cases of most agencies...
...this were not enough, Kissinger also proceeded to strike the "immediate withdrawal" alternative from the options half of the Vietnam memorandum, leaving his current Vietnamization plan as the most moderate of all the options listed. Thus, even before the paper had gone to the National Security Council, Kissinger had made the crux of the Administration's final choice inevitable: the United States was not going to leave Vietnam without exacting a price from the NLF and Hanoi. By thus manipulating the options system, Kissinger had unilaterally made a crucial policy choice...