Talk:James R. Schlesinger

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We should mention his activities as Secretary of Energy. Here's a link:

http://www.sepp.org/NewSEPP/Theology%20GW.htm


 * Mr. Schlesinger, the first secretary of energy, launched the Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Effects and Assessment Program shortly after the creation of that department in 1977.

He accuses the UN's climate change panel (IPCC) of bias:


 * the IPCC was created to support a specific political goal. It is directed to support the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

--Uncle Ed 19:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

re: scientific consensus he wrote:


 * science is not a matter of consensus, as the histories of Galileo, Copernicus, Pasteur, Einstein and others will attest. Science depends not on speculation but on conclusions verified through experiment. Verification is more than computer simulations -- whose conclusions mirror the assumptions built in the model.

family jewels
this should be mentioned:

"The documents -- the so-called "family jewels" -- are part of official investigations and reforms instituted in 1973 on the order of then CIA chief James Schlesinger, after he discovered illegal activities had been ongoing since the 1950s." - Yahoo news (AFP), 22 June 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/pl_afp/usintelligencecia_070621224826 211.225.32.223 07:03, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced quotation
I've removed the following sentence from the lede because it violates WP:BLP (among other policies).
 * Ford eventually dismissed Schlesinger for his "aloof, frequently arrogant manner."

Another problem is that the sentence is ambiguous: did President Ford use the quoted phrase, or did someone else use it in discussing Ford's dismissal of Schlesinger?

If someone can find a reliable source for these words, we can put an improved version of the sentence back. If not, we need to decide whether the event deserves a mention in the lede. (I have no opinion on that question.) CWC 09:13, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I know him to be arrogant at Rand corporation - but im a nobody!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juror1 (talk • contribs) 22:42, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

he supports peak oil??
"Schlesinger is also aware of the peak oil issue and supports it." What is "it" that he supports? Peak oil? The issue? The methodology for forecasting/estimating the date of peak oil production? Mulp (talk) 23:44, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * fixed. Rd232 talk 11:37, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

External link?
Would an interview with transcript with James Schlesinger from 1987 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8E2E3EDD88504E6E9C957CC233FDC95D (I have a conflict of interest; otherwise I would add it myself.) Mccallucc (talk) 19:04, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Potential citation

 * (Shadow, B Woodward, Simon & Schuster, 1999, pp. 30–31, 523. Based on interviews with Ford, Schlesinger, and A. Haig).-- — Keithbob •  Talk  • 20:05, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Watergate
Aside from the Watergate scandal box on the side of the article, there is no mention of Watergate within the article, nor is Schlesinger mentioned within the Watergate scandal article. If there is such a connection significant enough to warrant mention, should it be added? Or if not, shouldn't the Watergate scandal box be removed? —Salton Finneger (talk) 17:05, 24 May 2016 (UTC)


 * This seems newly relevant given all of the comparisons between his actions in 1974 and those of Milley in the lame duck period of the Trump presidency. --Icowrich (talk) 21:26, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

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