Brent Scowcroft
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Brent Scowcroft was a United States Air Force officer, and a two-time United States National Security Advisor, first under U.S. President Gerald Ford and then under George H. W. Bush. He served as Mil
Official portrait, 1973
Scowcroft as a United States Military Academy cadet c. 1947
Lieutenant Brent Scowcroft (seated second from left) with other members of the 82nd Squadron at Grenier Airfield in 1948
President Gerald Ford confers with Henry Kissinger and Scowcroft in October 1974.
Henry Kissinger
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Henry Alfred Kissinger was an American diplomat, political scientist, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to 1975 and as the 56th
Brent Scowcroft
…He had, just a month earlier, during the Halloween Massacre, become the United States National Security Advisor (for him, the first time), replacing Henry Kissinger. Scowcroft's continued service in the Air Force would have been contingent on reconfirmation of his rank by the Senate, a distinction that National…
Official portrait, c. 1973
Portrait of Kissinger as a Harvard senior in 1950
Kissinger being sworn in as Secretary of State by Chief Justice Warren Burger, September 22, 1973. Kissinger's mother, Paula, holds the Bible as President Nixon looks on.
Kissinger, shown here with Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong, negotiated rapprochement with China.