Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks Jimmy Carter has been trying to find precisely the right job for the special talents of Paul Warnke, 57, a bright, able veteran of several Pentagon jobs. But Warnke is also damned by his critics as the superdove of the foreign policy Establishment. Warnke's ideology was certainly a problem when he was passed over for the No. 1 posts at State, Defense and the CIA. Last week President Carter finally made the matchup. He nominated Warnke (pronounced Warn-key) to be both director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and chief negotiator at the Strategic Arms...
Warnke's opponents on the Hill are also angered by his unrelenting criticism of the Pentagon. In 1968, while serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs under President Lyndon Johnson, he urged a reduction in the level of U.S. fighting in Viet Nam and a halt to U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam. Since then, Warnke has constantly criticized the size of the defense budget He has even scathingly attacked SALT, declaring that except for the ban on anti-ballistic missiles, "the rest of SALT is crap." He argued, correctly, that the talks have done little...
...solidly plugged into the Washington power structure. He is now a senior partner in Clark Clifford's law office, and spent 18 years with the late Dean Acheson's firm. Warnke, moreover, has kept his close personal relations with Iwo men he previously worked with in the Pentagon and who now occupy top national security posts: Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown...
...logged an impressive career both at sea and on land. Most of his ship time has been served aboard destroyers; after receiving his two rear-admiral stars in 1970, he commanded a cruiser-destroyer flotilla that stalked the Soviets' Mediterranean squadron. The following year he went to the Pentagon as the Navy's director of systems analysis...
...easy to understand why Carter would pick such a masterful tacticain to head the Pentagon. After all, when Brown worked for LBJ he was one of the "whiz kids" with a sure answer to the nation's "problem" in Vietnam. Bomb 'em, he said, and bomb 'em some more. Such a history must have impressed Carter, who hopes we all will sleep easier with Harold Brown in the war room...