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...fact, the selections reflect President Bok's conscious desire for a decentralized administration made up of experts who independently rule. That structure on the whole seems to have worked remarkably well during Bok's 11 years. Certainly it has eased the fortress mentality that prevailed beore 1971. Bok's predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, relied exclusively on a tiny inner circle of all-purpose advisors and was widely blamed for mismanaging events such as the student protests of the late 1960s...
...Secretary hardly electrified the General Assembly with his 45-minute address outlining the Administration's approach to foreign policy. But Shultz's cautious, even ponderous style served him well in private sessions. Unlike his frenetic predecessor Alexander Haig, who sometimes had staffers burst into meetings with important cables, Shultz listens intently to his guests and responds slowly and softly. "He is rocklike," says an aide. In the assessment of one French diplomat, "he appears bien dans sa peau, self-confident." This reassuring style, more than anything else, showed that U.S. foreign policy, although not on a perfect course...
...rather than substance - what a Kohl aide has called "continuity with new accents." The new Chancellor will echo Schmidt's firm stand in support of the 1983 installation of intermediate-range cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe, although he may face more vociferous opposition than his predecessor did from West Germany's burgeoning anti-nuclear movement. Also, Kohl is unlike ly to change West Germany's position on the building of the Soviet gas pipe line, since the project will have a direct effect on his country's business interests...
...economic course to follow, the new chairman must naturally become actively involved in policy debates. At the same time he must not allow himself to become bogged down in interdepartmental feuding between the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget. Affable Economist Murray Weidenbaum, Feldstein's predecessor in the post, cast himself in the roles of both arbitrator and peacemaker and found his influence consequently diminished. Feldstein, by contrast, plans to be every bit as forceful and direct as the other principals in the Administration's continuing economic debate...
...mistake, a sign of weakness for an incumbent to blame problems on his predecessor. After a year or so, it may be rubbing the public the wrong...