# Foreign Policy Group
## 'Dumps' Henry Kissinger

JUN 19 1981

Washington

Henry A. Kissinger has been bumped from the board of America's foreign policy establishment.

They counted the ballots at the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations Monday and the former secretary of state trailed all the rest. There were nine candidates for eight open seats on the council's board of directors. Everyone was elected but Kissinger, who was running for his second full term.

The consternation at council headquarters on Manhattan's East Side was loud and clear when word trickled out about the results of the voting by the leadership elite of U.S. foreign affairs. The chairman of the board, David Rockefeller, expressed his alarm in a formal statement. Officials vowed a new look at a nominating process that could produce what one assailed as a "quirky result."

"It's really a fluke, frankly," protested council President Winston Lord, a longtime Kissinger aide who was installed in his council post in 1977 after a strong boost from his mentor. Kissinger, Lord insisted, "got very wide support, but under our system, you can get wide

support and still not be elected."

This was because all the Kissinger was slapped down by the changing composition of the establishment that launched his career.

"It was too good to pass up," said one council member who asked not to be identified. "It just stood out on the ballots they mailed out: a chance to vote against Kissinger."

Officials at the council, founded in 1921 and for years the home of the internationalist wing of the Republican Party, said it would be a mistake to read great significance in the outcome.

But a number of council members suggested that it was at least in part a reflection of the organization's efforts over the past decade to expand its roster.

Back in the mid-'60s, the council had 1400 members with, as one writer put it, "average age 60, average wealth undoubtedly staggering." Now it has more than 2000 members, including more than 600 beyond the environs of New York, Washington and Boston. The average age is 55.7, with women, blacks and younger members added to the rolls in recent years.

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HENRY KISSINGER
'Someone . . . doesn't like him'

And besides all that, Kissinger candidates, including another former secretary of state, Cyrus R. Vance, got wider support. The fact remains that he is not exactly the darling of Republican conservatives.

"That's very amusing," said Chicago Sun-Times publisher James Hoge on learning that

Kissinger was odd man out. Hoge and other board members who were re-elected got a Mailgram Tuesday informing them of their victories, but Hoge said, "it just listed the worthies." It didn't mention Kissinger.

"My guess is that somebody out there doesn't like him." Hoge said. "They have been building ranks outside New York for some time."

Others who were re-elected were Marina Whitman, former member of the Council of Economic Advisers; former Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal; Peter McColough, chairman of Xerox Corp.; Washington lawyer and former State Department official William D. Rogers, and Philip Geyelin, a columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group. Newly elected along with Vance was Walter Wriston, chairman of Citicorp and Citibank.

The council was formed to study the international aspects of America's political, economic and financial problems. The council, which publishes the quarterly Foreign Affairs, holds off-the-record meetings among leading government officials, scholars, businessmen and military leaders.

Washington Post

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