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...critics feel that in the province of foreign policy, Henry Kissinger alone is in charge. After being reassured by witnessing the flow of diverse domestic advisers who met with the President, John Hersey was troubled to note that only Kissinger or his National Security Council deputy, Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, gave most of the advice on foreign policy. It was, he wrote, the "most alarming thought I have had all week...
...most direct pressure on the Executive Branch is exerted by the highly active Israeli embassy in Washington and by visiting officials from Israel. Ambassador Simcha Dinitz is regularly seen in the West Wing White House office of Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Dinitz, subtle and clearheaded, is fully aware of the current concerns of American Jews. "There is more talk of a second Munich in the United States than in Israel," he observes. "As Foreign Minister Yigal Allon has said, Ford is not a Chamberlain, Sadat is not a Hitler, and Israel...
...Kissinger met at the White House with Schlesinger, Colby, Haig, Moorer and Brigadier General Brent Scowcroft, Kissinger's deputy on the National Security Council staff. Say the Kalbs: "There was in their view a 'high probability' of some kind of'unilateral Soviet move.'" (This version seemed later to have been partly disputed by Schlesinger, who said that the probability of Soviet troops actually being on the move "was considered by some to be low.") At 11:30 p.m. Schlesinger ordered the first stage of the alert...
...back down the Judean hills to Ben Gurion Airport and made the 126-mile flight back to Damascus to wrap up the agreement. "We've got it," he was finally able to cable Washington. In a follow-up telephone call, Kissinger and his White House liaison, Brig. General Brent Scowcroft, discussed obliquely which end of the line would make the formal announcement. Said Kissinger: "Can I assume you want to?" Answered Scowcroft, who had already checked with the Oval Office: "You can assume we want...
Brigadier General Brent Scowcroft, U.S.A.F., 46, Military Assistant to the President. A graduate of West Point and the National War College, Scowcroft earned his Ph.D. in international relations from Columbia University. Former special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he is the highest ranking U.S. military officer to visit mainland China in a quarter-century...