Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, USAF Ret., aged 95.
Quote:Scowcroft served as a military aide to President Richard Nixon, and was chosen by [President Gerald] Ford to serve as national security adviser after Mr. Nixon's resignation. He oversaw the evacuation of American officials from Vietnam in 1975. Although he left the White House after President Jimmy Carter was elected, he advised the president on arms control and helped formulate the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1979.
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He was one of the few Republicans who challenged President George W. Bush's decision to engage in another conflict in Iraq. In a 2002 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Scowcroft wrote that "there is scant evidence to tie Saddam [Hussein] to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks."
Quote:In 2016, Scowcroft publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."