Word: successors
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President Bok met with members of the Faculty yesterday to discuss his search for a successor to Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, who is resigning the post at the end of the academic year...
...because there is no statutory description of the position, the duties are fluid and ambiguous, and appointments to the post are not subject to senatorial confirmation. As a result, the job can change drastically with each successive occupant. So although at week's end a successor to William Clark had not been officially named, the leading contender, Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, and the also-rans prompted distinct lines of speculation about the style and substance he-or she-would bring to a White House office that has become a hotspot...
...powerful is the National Security Adviser? It all depends on the officeholder and his President. Under President Nixon, Henry Kissinger built a powerful policymaking apparatus that eclipsed the State Department. When Kissinger became Secretary of State in 1973, he took power with him to Foggy Bottom: his hand-picked successor as National Security Adviser, retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, was strictly a scrupulous administrator. During the Carter Administration, Zbigniew Brzezinski in his turn built a Kissinger-style policy machine that competed for influence with State...
...terms of publicity, too, Watt has been a godsend. No Executive Branch official since Teddy Roosevelt has attracted so much attention to environmentalist issues. Watt's successor will probably do his job quietly, without provoking public outrage, and the conservationists task will be that much more difficult...
What Watt's resignation will influence is the implementation of these policies. We simply can't depend on his successor to alienate people the way Watt could. Perhaps the first noticeable effect will come later this month, as the Supreme Court deliberates on the legality of the sale of offshore reefs. Whom can we count on to slander the Justices? Who is our man to trip up the defense? Sadly, there is sure to be silence on C St., as the case is judged on its merits...