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Says Brookings' Sonnenfeldt...
...group was chaired by Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald .and included W. Michael Blumenthal, Treasury Secretary in the Carter Administration; Paul Nitze, a leader of the hard-line Committee on the Present Danger; and Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine. The report was drafted primarily by Helmut Sonnenfeldt, State Department counselor under Henry Kissinger...
...good a Secretary of State will Haig turn out to be? Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who worked with Haig as Kissinger's top Soviet specialist: "My guess is that he will do pretty well. He won't see problems in isolation. He may connect them more than a lot of people's taste would warrant." Rejecting the view that Haig is an unimaginative technocrat, Sonnenfeldt says "he has a broad and creative vision and a special talent for recognizing the connection between issues." Other observers, such as former White House staffers and senior State Department officials, note that...
That is where Allen's strength lies. He does not appear to entertain the grand strategic notions of previous National Security Advisers such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who as a close aide to Kissinger worked with Allen on the NSC: "He has never claimed to be a great theorist of foreign policy. He has a quick mind and can grasp issues very rapidly, but he is most skilled on the operational side. He is an expediter-in terms of getting staff work organized and of dealing with personalities." Allen demonstrated that skill when...
...admirals will chew him up and spit him out in 15 minutes." That, however, is not the prevailing view; most old hands think Weinberger will make sure that the extra dollars Reagan intends to lavish on the military are spent on muscle rather than frills and fat. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who as an assistant to Henry Kissinger was an Administration colleague of Weinberger's: "I'd expect him to be very jaundiced on Defense spending without limit, to bring an air of realism and reason to the Defense budget process." Whichever opinion is correct, there is no doubt...