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• Henry Kissinger replaced Walt Rostow as National Security Advisor
• William Rogers replaced Dean Rusk as Secretary of State
  
• Melvin Laird replaced Clark Clifford as Secretary of Defense
  
• Kissinger and Nixon were pragmatic, flexible, sought order and stability, balance of power, and direct, controlling foreign policy from the White House and NSC rather than relying on bureaucracy
  
• influence of NSC increased - produced options and info for Nixon
  
• elitist staff - Alexander Haig, Roger Morris, Mort Halperin, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Larry Eagleburger
  
• interagency committees - Defense Program Review Committee; the 40 Committee for secret covert operations such as destabilization of Chile; WSAG Washington Special Actions Group, Intelligence Committee