Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, 1925-2020

摘要

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who twice served as U.S. national security adviser and was an adviser to six U.S. Presidents, died Aug. 6 at age 95. As a major general, Scowcroft was military assistant to President Richard M. Nixon and, as a three-star general, served Nixon as a deputy assistant for national security affairs. He was national security adviser to President Gerald R. Ford, and later to President George H. W. Bush, who he also served as chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He advised President Barack H. Obama in choosing a national security team, and headed or served as a principal in many Washington, D.C., think tanks over about 40 years.