Council on Foreign Relations Head Resigns

Council on Foreign Relations ^ | January 28, 2003 | International Advisory Borad

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Leslie H. Gelb..developing

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Is this war related?

[DoughtyOne]

It's a start.

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One down..400 to go!

[vannrox]

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This is an ODD time for a major CFR resignation. Somethings up. And "the powers that be" don't like it.


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[DoughtyOne]

;)

[Carry_Okie]

Leslie H. Gelb, is a former New York Times columnist and deputy editorial page editor.

[DoughtyOne]

That post number six was interesting. Served under Carter among other things. Oh joy...

[geedee]

This "might" explain it. It's probably just me, but I don't trust anyone who has had anything to do with The New York Times. Or, hell, he's old. He might just be ready to pack it in.

Leslie H. Gelb is President of the Council on Foreign Relations. a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization devoted to improving America's understanding of foreign policy, since 1993. He is currently a Trustee for The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Tufts University. He is a Board Member of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and an Advisory Board Member for the Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Prior to his tenure as President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Gelb had a distinguished career at The New York Times, where he was a columnist, Deputy Editorial Page Editor and Editor of the Op-Ed Page. He also served as the National Security Correspondent for The Times from 1981 - 1986, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1985.

Mr. Gelb was Senior Advocate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was Consultant to the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. Gelb was an Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter Administration, serving as Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, where he received the highest State Department award: the Distinguished Honor Award. He was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1969 to 1973, during which time he was also a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He was Director of Policy Planning and Arms Control for International Security Affairs at the Department of Defense from 1967 to 1969, where he also served as Director of the Pentagon Papers Project. While at the Defense Department, Mr. Gelb won the Pentagon's highest award, the Distinguished Service Award.

[HighRoadToChina]

BFL

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That was my thought exactly, extremely odd time for a CFR resignation..whos on the bench- Fareed Zakara?

[Carry_Okie]

Clearly a dedicated squire of the International Front.

[concerned about politics]

This sounds like good news. Why harbor a leftie?
I'll bet Bush gave him an option. Socialism, or the United States. "You're either with us, or you're against us."

[geedee]

The timing does give me pause. Right before the SOTU. Libbers have been trying to dominate the airwaves the past three or four days.

[Pagey]

I too thought Fareed Zakaria ( who is a rather eloquent speaker) was next in line. "Foreign Affairs" should be required reading for the 'possibilities that are' crowd, at the very least.

[taxed2death]

Aren't all CFR people globalist lefties?

[concerned about politics]

The timing does give me pause. Right before the SOTU. Libbers have been trying to dominate the airwaves the past three or four days.

That's why I think he got "the boot."
The news of this will be small today. No one will notice the leftie missing! Bush's speach will get all the headlnes.
It will be a non-event.
When Bush shows someone the door, he usually has other, more important news to downplay it.

[Timesink]

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