Brent Scowcroft

Former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, a Rice mentor, and other well-known Washington advisers warned Bush and Rice in a letter Wednesday that the session must tackle the "substance of a permanent peace." Arab states...

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...required not laws or ideals but a stable balance of power. In the late '80s, Brent Scowcroft, President George H.W. Bush's national security adviser, hired Rice onto his staff. A prot¿g¿ of Henry Kissinger, the ultimate realist, Scowcroft...

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Other witnesses invited for at least 10 days of hearings include former national security advisers and secretaries of state, including Brent Scowcroft, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry A. Kissinger, Madeleine K. Albright...

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...with the Soviet Union. Rice has often been mistaken as a protege of Brent Scowcroft -- for whom she worked in the George H.W. Bush White House -- and she has praised Dean Acheson as a model secretary of state. But to navigate this crisis...

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...Gerald Ford. With the election of George H. W. Bush, Scowcroft returned to the White House as National Security Adviser in 1989, and he asked Rice to become his Soviet expert on the United States National Security Council. According to R....

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...that is has. On Iran, Scowcroft said it was a good idea to send the State Department's No. 3 official, William Burns, to nuclear talks last weekend, and he criticized Rice for being too dismissive of the meeting later. "I would guess...

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The outstanding example of the second model, of a military affairs expert serving as national security adviser, is General Brent Scowcroft, who served President Gerald R. Ford from 1975 to 1977 and President George H. W. Bush from...

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...of Iraq, they have taken radically different courses. Brzezinski was the earliest and sharpest critic of the war among former officials; Scowcroft argued against the invasion and has criticized neoconservatives within the administration, but...

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...Cold War scholar. Now, her authority unquestioned, she could truly express herself. Scowcroft said he was stunned by Rice's new "evangelical tone." Critics say she shifted with the political winds. "Dr. Rice made a decision," Lawrence...

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