Word: brzezinski
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...already had such a reputation for reclusiveness that one of the first questions journalists asked him was whether they would ever see him again. "Maybe," replied a smiling Poindexter. In a job that brought world renown to such predecessors as McGeorge Bundy, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Poindexter proceeded to stay nearly invisible for just under a year. He was seen outside the White House so seldom that Washington reporters labeled his rare public appearances "Poindexter sightings...
Gates has a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history and in the 1970s spent nearly six years on loan to the National Security Council staff, where he worked for Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. A career analyst, Gates had no experience in CIA intelligence-gathe ring operations until he became Casey's deputy in April. Although his demeanor is mild, Gates once wrote a blistering critique of the CIA's ill-focused analytical process, and in 1981 Casey picked him to sharpen the agency's information-reporting procedures. The results helped to restore the CIA's reputation after a succession...
...Kissinger's peers, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, National Security Advisor under President Carter, prepared for his job by writing his 1953 graduate School of Education thesis on "The Permanent Purge and Soviet Totalitarianism...
...duty, Poindexter, 49, sees his role in a limited way: as a staff officer, skillfully condensing the arguments of the quarreling Cabinet secretaries and their underlings, then presenting the various action options to the President. Unlike Henry Kissinger under Nixon and Ford and, to a slightly lesser degree, Zbigniew Brzezinski under Carter, Poindexter does not consider himself a virtual foreign-policy czar. He has neither the desire nor the personality to pressure other high officials into agreement. Instead, by avoiding the limelight, Poindexter believes he can effectively work out compromises among his large-ego clients...
...importance then, class members recall, were the ever-controversial parietal rules, the quality of an Elsie's roast beef sandwich, the high-stakes Crimson-Lampoon crew race, the tutelage of Eliot House Master John H. Finley '25, the heady classes of McGeorge Bundy, Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Zbigniew Brzezinski an embarrassing Harvard-Yale game, and the legendary Lamont Dupont...