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...second job, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In that post, Kissinger chaired the 40 Committee, which oversees the CIA, and had control over all of the foreign policy recommendations sent to the President. Though the job went to a loyal Kissinger aide, Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, the shift ended Kissinger's monopoly as the President's foreign policy adviser. One White House aide disclosed that Kissinger's daily one-hour private meetings with Ford on foreign policy may be cut down, perhaps even to one session a week. Rumsfeld, unlike Schlesinger, may also meet weekly with Ford...
...believe there's been any change at all. His former deputy [Brent Scowcroft] has moved over to the National Security Council, and to me that means Kissinger is still in charge of both jobs. With Nixon gone, I worry about Kissinger. He needed someone like Nixon to keep him on that tough track. He has to have someone around who can keep him from giving away the store...
...Brent Scowcroft, 50, used to snatch a few hours' sleep in Henry Kissinger's White House office during his frequent dusk-to-dawn stints keeping watch over international crises. Having been named to replace Kissinger as head of the National Security Council, Scowcroft will now be able to work there in the daytime too. A slightly built, balding scholar, Scowcroft may well be the ablest member of Ford's White House staff. Now an Air Force lieutenant general, he will resign his commission when he takes over his new job. He became Kissinger's NSC deputy...
Although some critics, including a number of top military men, dismiss him as "a good paper shuffler" and as Kissinger's errand boy within the White House, Scowcroft is hardly an automaton. He is an intellectual soldier with a superb background in international relations. A West Point graduate, Scowcroft won a master's degree and a Ph.D. in his specialty at Columbia University, also studied at Lafayette, Georgetown's School of Languages and Linguistics, the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College. Fluent in Russian and Serbian, Scowcroft taught Russian history at West Point during...
...former White House colleague humorously describes Scowcroft as having "a terrible weakness-he's a professional staff man who has devoted his life to picking up debris. He is trained to serve totally and unswervingly the person to whom he is assigned." Although his loyalty now focuses on Ford, it is difficult' to imagine Scowcroft suddenly challenging Kissinger's foreign policy after having worked so closely with him for 2½ years. The sudden emergence from obscurity may be distasteful to the unassuming Scowcroft, who, as Kissinger's deputy, never even granted an on-the-record...