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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...
...Have a well-articulated world view, says Zbigniew Brzezinski, who as a professor and later Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser dealt with four Secretaries of State: "The Secretary must have the ability to integrate very complex and varied trends into patterns worldwide so that the U.S. can have definite priorities and be able to define its objectives clearly." Other experts like Hoffmann feel that the Secretary must not become prisoner of a rigid view to which he tries to make every world event conform. But unless the foreign policy chief can relate events in one part...
...honestly stated. The leaker always has some self-serving motive, good or bad, but gets off scot-free while accomplishing his purpose. Think of how often in the past year "well informed" newspaper stories about policy debates over Iran, Afghanistan or Iraq have implied that National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Pentagon are decisive and tough, while the State Department is waffling and weak-kneed...
...raise our glasses in the air for everyone we know. For A. Simone Reagor, Eugene Genovese, Lyndon Larouche and Aglaia Senese, Ned Coll, Larry Bird, Meryl Streep and Abbie Hoffman, Ben Schatz, Richard Frye, Cyrus Vance and Stanley Hoffmann, Baruj Benacerraf, Muhammad Ali, Simon Schama and Selwyn Cudjoe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ann Ramsay, Nathan Huggins and Pat Sorrento, Al Dershowitz and The Quincy House Two, Shirley Hufstedler and Pere Ubu, Charlie Beckwith, Walter Cronkite, Alex Bok and Alex Haig, Francis Duehay, John Travolta, Sid Vicious and Jim Craig. Theda Skocpol, Lewis Brooks, Felix Rohatyn and Jorge Hankamer, Andy Warhol, Jerry Falwell...
Carter and his aides have carefully kept Reagan and his advisers informed of developments in foreign policy and, at critical junctures, tried to win their support. Jack Watson, Carter's Chief of Staff, consults regularly with Edwin Meese, Reagan's top counselor; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Adviser, talks frequently with Richard Allen, Reagan's chief adviser on foreign affairs and the man likely to become his National Security Adviser. As a result, insists Watson, "there is no paralysis. There is no breakdown in our capacity to react...