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Richard M. Nixon Administration
Nixon appointed over 100 CFR members to serve in his Administration:
George Ball (Foreign Policy Consultant to the State Department), Dr. Harold Brown (General
Advisory Committee of the U.S. Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency, and the senior member of the U.S. delegation for talks with Russia on SALT), Dr.
Arthur Burns (Chairman of the Federal Reserve), C. Fred Bergsten (Operations Staff of the
National Security Council), C. Douglas Dillon (General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency), Richard N. Cooper (Operations Staff of the National
Security Council), Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster (Supreme Allied Commander in Europe), John
W. Gardner (Board of Directors, National Center for Volunteer Action), Elliot L. Richardson
(Under Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General; and Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare), David Rockefeller (Task Force on International Development), Nelson
A. Rockefeller (head of the Presidential Mission to Ascertain the Views of Leaders in the Latin
America Countries), Rodman Rockefeller (Member, Advisory Council for Minority Enterprise),
Dean Rusk (General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency),
Gerald Smith (Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency), Cyrus Vance (General
Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency), Richard Gardner
(member of the Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy), Sen. Jacob K. Javits
(Representative to the 24th Session of the General Assembly of the UN), Henry A. Kissinger
(Secretary of State, Harvard professor who was Rockefeller’s personal advisor on foreign affairs,
openly advocating a “New World Order”), Henry Cabot Lodge (Chief Negotiator of the Paris
Peace Talks), Douglas MacArthur II (Ambassador to Iran), John J. McCloy (Chairman of the
General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency), Paul H.
Nitze (senior member of the U.S. delegation for the talks with Russia on SALT), John Hay
Whitney (member of the Board of Directors for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting),
George P. Shultz (Secretary of the Treasury), William Simon (Secretary of Treasury), Stanley R.
Resor (Secretary of the Army), William E. Colby (Director of the CIA), Peter G. Peterson
(Secretary of Commerce), James Lynn (Housing Secretary), Paul McCracken (chief economic
aide), Charles Yost (UN Ambassador), Harlan Cleveland (NATO Ambassador), Jacob Beam
(USSR Ambassador), David Kennedy (Secretary of Treasury).
Gerald R. Ford Administration
When CFR member Gerald Ford became President, among some of the other CFR members:
William Simon (Secretary of Treasury), Nelson Rockefeller (Vice-President).
Jimmy Carter Administration
President Carter (who became a member in 1983) appointed over 60 CFR members to serve in
his Administration:
Walter Mondale (Vice-President), Zbigniew Brzeznski (National Security Advisor), Cyrus R.
Vance (Secretary of State), W. Michael Blumenthal (Secretary of Treasury), Harold Brown
(Secretary of Defense), Stansfield Turner (Director of the CIA), Gen. David Jones (Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff).
Ronald Reagan Administration
There were 75 CFR and Trilateral Commission members under President Reagan:
Alexander Haig (Secretary of State), George Shultz (Secretary of State), Donald Regan