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...structure amounted to an obstructive bureaucracy. The Kennedy Administration did away with the subsidiary boards and operated on a more informal basis, with McGeorge Bundy running the White House's "little State Department." Lyndon Johnson continued the Kennedy practice, first with Bundy and then with his successor, Walt Rostow...
...planning mechanism of the Government functions more effectively and presents to the President all of the relevant contingencies and choices." This implies liberating Kissinger from much of the hour-to-hour drudgery-the monitoring of cables from abroad and memoran dums from agencies in Washington-that kept Bundy and Rostow tied to the "situation room" beneath the White House. It also means that greater freedom of action in routine matters will be entrusted to the operating departments, particularly State. Nixon, said Kissinger, "urged me to make sure that his staff and his advisers free themselves for long-range thinking...
...House assistant and a troubleshooter on both foreign and domestic problems. Nixon also named Campaign Aide Herb Klein to be the spokesman for the executive branch (see following story). Harvard's Henry A. Kissinger, a former foreign-affairs adviser to Nelson Rockefeller, was sought to take over Walt Rostow's job as chief staff director of the National Security Council. Kissinger has been the nation's foremost theoretician of "limited war" and flexible response to prevent Communist aggression. Last summer, however, Kissinger helped to draw up Rockefeller's four-point formula suggesting steps to de-Americanize...
Speculation on what position Kissinger might hold centered around two possibilities: chairman of the Policy Planning Council at the State Department or special assistant to the President for national security affairs, the post currently held by Walt W. Rostow, and during the Kennedy administration, by McGeorge Bundy...
Washington was sufficiently alarmed to rush White House Adviser Eugene Rostow to Teheran in an unpublicized attempt to cool the angry Shah. Later, King Hassan of Morocco, on visits to Teheran and Riyadh, acted as a conciliator. Reassured about each other's intentions, the Shah and King Feisal began to exchange delegations. Feisal disclaimed any bridge building to Bahrain, and the Shah glossed over the fracas...