Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through his years at the AEC, the CIA and the Pentagon, he grasped his subjects well, but there was something more about him−an extra dimension...
...last week he ticked off his reasons for pride in his years at the Pentagon−keeping the defense strong, making nuclear strategy more flexible, holding the military together after Viet Nam. Then, as usual, there was more. Skepticism has gone too far, he believes. It has forced concentration on things that don't matter, like perceiving conspiracies and finding villains for the sheer sport of it. He worried about family structures weakening, and whether the schools are good enough to produce the people we need now. So much of the national disillusion, he felt, had been planted...
...with Defense Secretary James Schlesinger's farewell. Schlesinger, who had been fired by Ford, went into his office on Sunday to polish his valedictory. He was still rewriting on Monday, with 15 minutes to go. Then, with 3,000 civilian employees and military gathered in front of the Pentagon, Schlesinger marched out to a 19-gun salute and a thunderous ovation. He was erect, pressed and combed-not his usual style. Schlesinger argued: "Whether we are successful in pursuing detente or we hedge against the possible failure of detente, a military balance remains necessary. Though we should pursue detente...
...Schlesinger was departing the Pentagon, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was telling a press conference that he considered his old Harvard classmate (1950) a man of "outstanding ability." Kissinger conceded there had been differences, "as you would expect between two individuals of strong minds." Said Kissinger: "There were some personality disputes that neither of us handled with the elegance and wisdom that perhaps was necessary...
Asked if he planned to use the Pentagon as a steppingstone to a place on the Ford ticket, Rumsfeld replied that he was not running for the vice presidency. But he refused to remove himself from the race. Said he: "It is presumptuous of me to take myself out of a position I have not been offered...