Word: rumsfeld
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right within the White House because a fundamental change has taken place there since Kissinger visited Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow last month to negotiate a SALT pact. Politics have been injected into Gerald Ford's foreign policy. For the first time, his political advisers, notably Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have matched if not surpassed the Secretary of State in their influence on presidential decisions about SALT...
...Secretary is finding that Rumsfeld is a more adroit maneuverer than Kissinger's old opponent James Schlesinger ever was. Says an insider: "Rummy is a dummy as a SALT scholastic. But he's politically savvy as hell, and he's going around town saying the U.S. can live without a SALT agreement this year, and Kissinger's deadline is just that-it's Kissinger's deadline, not the country's or even the Administration...
Asked if he planned to use the Pentagon as a steppingstone to a place on the Ford ticket, Rumsfeld replied that he was not running for the vice presidency. But he refused to remove himself from the race. Said he: "It is presumptuous of me to take myself out of a position I have not been offered...
After two days of hearings, Rumsfeld emerged with every hair in place -possibly, some observers suspected, because he had sprayed it. Committee Chairman John C. Stennis noted mildly, "You haven't been put on the griddle." The committee then voted unanimously to approve Rumsfeld, and quick confirmation by the full Senate is expected this week...
...assessments should collide with a favored course of action at the White House, would a dedicated party man like Mr. Bush be able to stand up to the pressures from a Republican President in an election year?" Bush's hearings, which could be as stormy as Rumsfeld's were serene, are not expected to begin until after January...