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...incipient Administration's foreign policy is already off to a good start. Bush's appointments of James Baker as Secretary of State, Brent Scowcroft as National Security Adviser and Nicholas Brady as Treasury Secretary have generally been well received, both at home and abroad, and the public statements from the President-elect himself on defense and diplomacy have reflected his considerable experience in those fields...
...only is Bush experienced but the governing team he is assembling is cut from the same cloth as those who are making the recommendations. In a few cases, they are one and the same. For example, Brent Scowcroft, named last week as Bush's National Security Adviser, was a member of the team that concocted the Ford-Carter American Agenda. Richard Darman, whom Bush tapped as head of the Office of Management and Budget, is a trustee of the Brookings Institution, which has produced two major transition reports...
Bush also planned to announce the formation of a national security advisory task force including former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's national security adviser...
...differences between the President and his would-be successor are matters of sensibility rather than substance, but they nonetheless signal that come January the Reagan Revolution could give way to the Bush Restoration, a return to power for the foreign-policy establishment. Brent Scowcroft, who served as Gerald Ford's National Security Adviser, calls Bush a "Rockefeller Republican." Scowcroft intends the label as high praise, but Republican conservatives have held it against Bush for years that he seemed to be from the same mold as Nelson Rockefeller, the champion of moderate Republicanism...
Notified at the last minute about the new American proposal, advocates of Midgetman were furious. They included four outsiders whose backing was important if the Administration was going to maintain bipartisan support for its defense policies: Brent Scowcroft, a former National Security Adviser in the Ford Administration; Democratic Senators Sam Nunn and Albert Gore Jr.; and Democratic Congressman Les Aspin. All had been supporting Midgetman for three years, arguing that it had the twin virtues of being harder for the other side to hit, since it was mobile, and less threatening as a first-strike weapon, since...