Word: strategist
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Most of this strategy was probably devised by Nixon himself, but it has both come together and reached its peak since St. Clair became his chief legal strategist early in January. Not only is Nixon being scrutinized by the Judiciary Committee but, more important, he is on trial in the court of public opinion. At long last he has a lawyer who?unlike his previous counsel?is a seasoned courtroom attorney. Moreover, St. Clair's Washington experience (see box page 12) goes back to the classic Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954, when he was an assistant to Joseph N. Welch...
Sears was called to the stand by federal prosecutors, who are attempting to prove that Mitchell, once Nixon's top political strategist, and Stans, who raised the money that made the campaigns purr, had struck the sleaziest of bargains with a notorious financial manipulator, Robert Vesco. The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged that Vesco was the central figure in perpetrating a $224 million stock fraud, the largest single case in SEC history. In its case against Mitchell and Stans, the Government argues that Vesco made a secret, illegal contribution of $200,000 in cash to the President...
Wilson's strong suit has been his shrewd tactical sense-that of a cunning strategist who knew how to pick his way through, as he once put it, "political traps and minefields." Always a much more complex man than his natural ebullience and everpresent pipe suggest, he provides few glimpses of his inner self and has no close political cronies. At 58, his tastes, like his upbringing as the son of a Yorkshire industrial chemist, are unpretentious: detective stories, raspberries, a nip of brandy. Each summer, he spends three weeks in his cottage on the desolate Scilly Isles (where...
...Goals. The man in charge of the U.S. military response to the new Russian challenge is James Rodney Schlesinger, 45, who was sworn in as Secretary of Defense last July 2. By profession an economist and military strategist, the tall, pipe-smoking Schlesinger demonstrated deft and tough skills in administration and problem solving in his previous jobs as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (see box page 16). At the Pentagon, he has set two goals for himself: 1) to overcome the legacy of the Viet Nam War, which has left the services...
...level attained by the U.S. but insisted on keeping the numerical advantage granted them by SALT I. The Soviet obduracy has led Jackson to conclude that Russia does not "view the SALT deliberations as a path to mutual security through nuclear stability based on strategic equality." As one Pentagon strategist puts it, "It is clear to all that the Russians want superiority and then they will be ready to talk to us about deals...