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...assets; instead, they will have to present their claims to the arbitration commission. The hostages themselves are barred from filing suits against Iran. If they are to be compensated financially for their sufferings, the payments apparently will have to be made by Washington with American tax dollars. Says Brent Scowcroft, who was once National Security Adviser to President Ford: "Cutting off the right to sue is paying them off. That's extortion." Some critics also assail the U.S. commitment to help Iran find and recover assets of the late Shah and his family, vague and probably unenforceable as that...
...Security Adviser I violated every one of these rules except the one that I never went on television. But I violated the spirit of what I'm saying. Further service convinced me that it was an unsound system. The best Security Adviser I know was General Brent Scowcroft. He had his own views, but you always knew that everybody would get a fair hearing. And he would not present anything to the President that he had not first discussed with the Secretary of State...
...When you were Secretary of State and General Scowcroft was the National Security Adviser, he obviously shared your views on foreign policy. Is this a requirement...
...team in an Administration better share the same views after working together for some time. Government is not an academic seminar. If you seek to implement different philosophies simultaneously, the result is incoherence. General Scowcroft and I agreed, say 90% of the time, but we disagreed 10% of the time. If Scowcroft disagreed, he would say so to the President and I wanted him to do that. But I felt that if as Secretary of State I could not present an argument that would prevail over that of the National Security Adviser, I did not deserve...
...Seven of these "wise men," as they were called by Carter aides, got to work almost immediately. Headed by Clark Clifford, the group also included John McCone, McGeorge Bundy and John McCloy, all of whom served as advisers to Kennedy and Johnson; David Packard of the Nixon Administration; Brent Scowcroft of the Ford Administration; and Sol Linowitz, a longtime presidential consultant who most recently was chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties...