Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news immediately provoked outrage. Senior State Department officials warned Shultz that it was imperative that he choose Hinton's successor himself, in order to show who really ran the main instrument of U.S. diplomacy. Said a participant in the bureaucratic wrangling: "Others may have had their candidate [for the ambassadorial post], but if it was really the Secretary's responsibility to run [Central American] policy, then he had to have his choice...
Rosovsky says he may begin examining some of these issues in his last year as dean, but speculates that it is an issue his successor will inherit Graduate education, he says, is another topic that may well be high on the next dean's agenda...
Rosovsky's still-undetermined successor--the dean announced last month he will step down next summer--will have the opportunity Rosovsky passed up Midway through the current dean's tenure, the Faculty obtained a residence on Bryan St., Rosovsky says, because "I was really quite certain that my successor would want a house...
Enders' successor, Motley, is considered too inexperienced in the State Department to exert the kind of influence that got Enders into trouble. Motley, moreover, is regarded as a Reagan loyalist unlikely to have differences with the White House. Still, Motley has been blunt-spoken and independent in Brasilia. He recently said of his job: "We are dealing with a goddam tough set of facts as representatives of the U.S., and it is no job for cookie-pushing layabouts." He has been critical of diplomats who ignore Congress or fail to answer letters from legislators. "We at State...
...afterwards, as he returns to the academia he so plainly misses. So it is not with disrespect that we say that Derek Bok, in looking for a replacement for Henry Rosovsky, should not be looking for another Henry Rosovsky. The dean has been a dedicated curator, but his successor should have an interest in the parts of Harvard's "national treasure" that Rosovsky neglected to polish...