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Great Challenge. The job as energy czar will be Schlesinger's fifth Government post in a career that has been spent mostly as a specialist in defense economics. A lifelong Republican-but one who nonetheless considers himself an apolitical technocrat-he joined the Nixon Administration in 1969 and served as assistant budget director, AEC chairman, CIA director and, finally, Secretary of Defense. His trademarks were an ever-present pipe, an ever-flapping shirttail, a rumpled suit and a heavy-handed sarcasm that made him many enemies. Ford fired him last year, because of both his abrasiveness and his skepticism...
...addition to his widely reported experience in foreign affairs, including official service in three administrations, Vance offered a proven diplomatic skill and a low-key professional style. The most frequent adjectives appearing in newspaper descriptions of Vance are "realistic", "cautious", "self-effacing", "a good manager", a "brilliant technocrat", "incredibly loyal". He has earned credentials for negotiating time and again, in Korea, Panama and Cyprus...
...focused on him. It took him three tries before he landed his Senate seat in 1974. Since then, he has been a hard-working centrist. In his debut as a national political figure, Glenn will sound an inspirational note. With his familiar face, his easy, Eisenhower-like smile and technocrat's precise mind, Glenn is a major contender for second place on Carter's ticket...
Respected Technocrat. Like Franjieh, who had supported his election, Sarkis is from the Maronite Christian community, which has dominated Lebanon's government and economy since the country became independent at the end of World War II. A respected technocrat who has been described as a "rightist with socialist ideas," he is credited, as head of the Central Bank, with restoring confidence in the country's banking system after the Intra Bank crash of 1966. A candidate in the last presidential election in 1970, Sarkis lost to Franjieh by only one vote...
Speer largely retains that view in these diaries, and reaffirms the self-portrayal he so carefully laid out in his memoirs. That painstaking mosaic presented Speer as a reluctant Nazi, a politically naive and unambitious man, a technocrat whose real failure lay in his moral blindness and refusal to consider the implications of his work from anything but a technical standpoint. In his first book, Speer was never really a Nazi; he just happened to be captivated by Hitler's personal magnetism, never really considering the ideology of National Socialism. Of course, Speer denied any knowledge of the death camps...