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...fully agree with your contention that Professor William Shockley's First Amendment rights are being abused. But Shockley abuses his position in the scientific community when he trades on irrelevant past accomplishments and position to command a forum for his ideas in a field in which he has neither formal training nor significant experience. If a Mr. William Shockley were to expound upon his theory of dysgenics, would he command the same audience and credibility as "Stanford University Professor William Shockley, a Nobel prizewinner"? I doubt...
...state, President Georges Pompidou. A graduate of France's prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration, Jobert was a gifted civil servant who joined forces with Pompidou ten years ago as one of his top aides. Short and slight, he has a mordant wit, and his intellectual powers command the respect of Cabinet colleagues...
When he moved to the State Department, there was speculation that Kissinger would institutionalize his policies. Instead, he has become the institution. In foreign affairs, Nixon is still commander in chief, but Kissinger has asserted himself as both strategist and tactician with such sweeping command that there is no one in the White House to challenge his power. The State Department, so often derogated by the President and his aides, has been relatively untainted by Watergate. Kissinger is known to believe that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to conduct foreign policy from the White House in the present...
...been removed. Now he can face more basic considerations: how to maintain American prestige and economic power in the world. Kissinger's biggest problem is his lack of economic expertise and an economic team; he has been late in building one. He has also moved late to take command in the field of international oil and energy. Kissinger remains a stern, demanding taskmaster with Teutonic thoroughness. He uses the department more than when he was only a presidential adviser, but the operation is still based on a small personal team. His demands for perfection have not altered: his NATO...
...domestic repression in this century. Rockefeller, whose Commission on Critical Choices for America is the latest step in his endless quest for the presidency, broke off negotiations two years ago between the state and the prisoners who had revolted to protest conditions at Attica State Prison. His command to state troopers to surround and retake the fortress led to the unnecessary deaths of 37 prisoners and guards...