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    James Schlesinger

    Jew Score:
    8

    I4

    O1

    K3
    February 15, 1929 – March 27, 2014

    The obituary of former Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger is a stupendous exercise in passive-aggressive backhanded compliments. Take it away, New York Times!

    A brilliant, often abrasive Harvard-educated economist, Mr. Schlesinger went to Washington in 1969 as an obscure White House budget official. Over the next decade he became chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, director of Central Intelligence, a cabinet officer for three presidents (two of whom fired him), a thorn to congressional leaders and a controversial national public figure.

    Lovely, isn't it? "Brilliant, often abrasive". "Obscure". "A thorn". "Controversial"! And that terrific parenthetical aside... Oh, that obituary writer is worth every penny!

    And then there is this:

    He was raised in a Jewish household but became a Lutheran as an adult.

    We liked it better when he was called abrasive...

    Verdict: Barely a Jew.

    April 24, 2014

    See Also

    Harold Brown

    William Cohen

    Daniel Ellsberg

    Mark Felt

    Henry Kissinger
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