Word: rumsfeld
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Says White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, the keeper of Ford's revolving door to the Oval Office: "You can gain a lot from reading and thinking, but you're more likely to acquire a sense of the mood of the country by meeting with people. It's important that the President have a sense not only of the intellectual content of an issue, but also be exposed to its intensity...
...DONALD RUMSFELD, 42. The quietly ambitious and well-positioned White House chief of staff must automatically be considered for any vacancy that occurs in a major post. As director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and then director of the Cost of Living Council under Nixon, Rumsfeld did not serve with any particular distinction. After serving a year and a half as NATO Ambassador, he was brought back home by his old friend Ford to clear up the chaos in the White House. He has subsequently strengthened his position by bringing a few of his own men into the Administration...
Ford's approach was not what his closest domestic advisers, Bob Hartmann, Donald Rumsfeld and John Marsh, had argued for or anticipated. Indeed, almost up until the day of the speech, Ford's White House staff appeared confident that the President would take the high road this time, extend a conciliatory hand toward Congress, and in the process demonstrate his own command of foreign policy. They underestimated Ford's vulnerability to the last-minute persuasion of Henry Kissinger...
...earned his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Chicago and from 1960 to 1966 ran a series of wide-ranging political-science seminars at its Public Affairs Conference Center. Among the scholars, journalists, businessmen and politicians in sometime attendance were Congressmen Gerald Ford and Donald Rumsfeld. When Goldwin moved to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, as an associate professor, he took the Conference Center with him. In 1969 he was made dean of St. John's and the next year spent his spare time teaching Plato's Republic to Congressmen and other notable Washingtonians...
...Rumsfeld, then Ambassador to NATO, beckoned Goldwin to Brussels to lend a hand. There the professor contributed to drafting the Ottawa Declaration, which reaffirmed the Atlantic Alliance. When Rumsfeld joined Ford's White House as chief of staff, he persuaded Goldwin to turn down a faculty job at the University of Pennsylvania and follow...