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Sonnenfeldt chaired the session, which included Administration officials and about a dozen outside experts. Among those invited: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and two of his predecessors, Harold Brown and Donald Rumsfeld; Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to President Ford; and Norman Podhoretz, a neoconservative writer and Administration critic. "It's an effort to break out and listen, to avoid being caught in my cocoon," says Shultz...
...like amphetamine candy, addictive. One gobbles up the testimony in Edie, culled by Jean Stein and George Plimpton from interviews with some 250 people who crossed paths or swords with the poor little rich girl. An awful fascination obtains to the book's elegant gossip. See Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary and hitman of the double-domed Right, dance wickedly on the grave of one of Edie's ancestors. Recall the night that Rock Star Jim Morrison paid sexual obeisance to Jimi Hendrix on the stage of Steve Paul's nightclub, the Scene. Watch Warhol shrug...
...Norman Podhoretz has called Shorris theory "garbage." Not surprisingly. Podhoretz is one of the six figures Shorris names in the book as the "half dozen middle-aged former leftists who led the garrulous conversion" to neoconservatism. The others are Harvard professors Nathan Glazer and Daniel Bell. Irving Kristol, Midge Decter, and Sidney Hook Shorris concedes that Bell deserves credit for sacrificing his standing among leading neoconservatives because he would not surrender his Jewish ethics for "vulgarity...
...Jews," and "The poor of America are wretches without dignity"). His book will never convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him. Despite his rather arrogant dismissal of the neoconservative theory. Shorris consents to a quick and impressionistic history of the social changes which he says pushed Podhoretz and Co. from the Left into their current positions as "court Jews" for the Reagan Administration...
They also treasure access to power or aspire to it. Reagan likes to stay in amiable touch and knows that White House dinner invitations are ego enhancing. After the Times article appeared, he telephoned Podhoretz, agreeing with much of his argument but pleading necessity for his own tactics. He sent Will the speech he was going to deliver to the English Parliament, asking advice; Will thought it "ghastly" and wrote another; Reagan used a third version with borrowings from Will...