European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse 10 the stars and stripes August 1977 National Security councils Jessica Tuchman Talent for learning fast by Laura Foreman new York if she were an Jessica Tuchman had the Good Grace to a terrible aha then the stopped and thought about i come from a very compulsive pair of there both very hard my Mother it Fps As hard or harder anyone Ive Ever she has a tour hour attention my father does a lot of he read the Book of knowledge when he was seven and eight All 20 or whatever it i grew up around a lot of her father is a physician and her Mother is historian Barbara twice Winner of the pulitzer her elder sister Lucy was a Phi Beta Kappa in her Junior year and a a Mrna cum laude graduate of her great Uncle was Henry Morgenthau Secretary of the Treasury for 12 years under Franklin i just always assumed that i was my Pond to do the name sort of nhe said in a recent inter and she at Jessica Tuchman is one of the most important women in the Carter a key member of the global issues unit in Zbogniew Brzezinski a Natlyn Al Security she helps formulaic policy on such vital matters As nuclear conventional arms human rights Ana Law of the if she sees her Job As a pressure and she says she the Strain shows Only in the faint bluish shadows beneath her tilted Blue there is no sign of t in her candid manner and her penchant for sudden trained As a molecular biologist with a in Bio physics and she has moved from the microcosm to the macrocosm from the infinitely Small to the infinitely the same Way she seems to do everything with infinite Jessica has a Way of doing everything better than everybody a colleague 1 dont know that die Means that its a competitive but that the Way it turns while other Young women Rode Tuchman became a first ale political operative in two presidential the first of those was in and the candidate was Eugene 21 years old then and not yet was Only five months out of Radcliffe when Mccarthy announced that he would seek the presi Dency on Antiwar it was not Vietnam that Drew me to Mccarthy in he first Tuchman recalled it was his in and his View of the which was a very cautious 1 was never really a Gigantic shews one of the first five or six to appear at Mccarthy National Campaign quarters in Washington within a few Days of his announcement of his aha was his assistant Campaign Man after Mccarthy defeat at the disastrous democratic National convention in Tuchman went Home to rested for three off politics and got ready to go Back to she emerged from three Yean at cat tech and two Al the Massachusetts Institute of technology with a and a revived before settling Down o she she wanted one More look at Morris Udall of Arizona had been pushing the american association for the of science to set up a Fellowship which it did just in Lime to make Tuchman one of its first Fellows she chose to spend the time on Udall subcommittee on Energy and Shes one of those remarkable people who just had an immediate feel for Udall she could translate a scientific Issue into political terms and at the same Lime was Able to work her Way through the labyrinth of congressional As her Fellowship Drew to a close in she took a Job As a staff assistant with the office of technological As turning Down another Fellowship from Cam Bridge she was extremely Good in that working As sort of my Liaison with the scientific Udall when the presidential Campaign i was searching for somebody to my issues and she was one of the most Broadu aged people i Ever modern living ran Timit be one twigs i try to remember the government got along 200 years without says so Tuchman plunged into her second ing is to in hours a seven Days a researching and formulating proposed policy Tor candidate Udall i think people who followed the presidential Campaign thought we had the Best issues operation of any the congressman and it was clearly Jessica Shes a remarkably Fine As enter As anyone come along in Ray Udall was but the Campaign left Tuchman with three important she had a Book on issues about pages she had a leg up toward an important new and she had a when the Campaign was i told Carter 1 want gang to push Tor jobs or but i had three people 1 thought would be Good for him and Good for the Udall Jessica was one of the upshot was that tech Manas offered not one but two jobs of from Detelic Secretary Harold Brown in International us the Job she took with the National Security in Good Al i because Deal easily with tech Nical Tuchy Ansaldo her now they dont scare me the Way they do some and i guess i have a sort of Talent for learning a glance at the stacks of reports and other vital utter obscuring the top of her desk gives some notion of How much she must read to keep up with the she said her Day usually began about with re turning Telephone Calls left Over torn the Day then come meetings Ullh various Security Council issues perhaps twice a she goes to Capitol Hill to Brief congressional groups on foreign policy Between and around these she there were meetings with with with representatives from other government along with keeping track of three to four deliveries a Day of cables detailing global doings As the world spins through another 24 at the end of the Day a report must be written Tor Brae she is Good to work Hes got High but Hes not Tuchaj ends most of he Days during her 10hour plus work week by jogging about a mile and a what keeps sane these she she said she found her Job worthwhile and but asked k she planned to continue with it for the next a look of mock horror wrenched her Strong i conceive of going on like this for four she Ive decided to give ii six months and see if it gets any theres a fearsome Price you pay to do in a us much tougher on the person you care about than it is on which brings up Cotla a be Tang lawyer Tuchman met while they were both working on the Udall they plan to marry and Ibe potential roles of Wile nod Mother Are causing her to have second thoughts about indefinite tenure As a government foreign policy specialist i dont think you could do this for that Long and keep up a she detailing the demands on her time that top her away from her even though she religiously reserves her sundays to spend will weblog the do things Ullh us kids by a previous we see do Normal things movies and were Pray Well get Togo skiing Hes a after the Udall Tuch Roan rented a Cabin in Vermont and noted up there far three deciding what to do was a rare Opportunity just to not to be after two Yean constant constant 1 had been i just had to be inner directed for a it was a very precious she describes her life now apart Iran work As i cant she in she worlds worst House 1 dont pay my Bills for two months at a and i used u of very neat keeping a she can do it with an maybe till be Dif Ferent when 1 have a she talked about wanting some time perhaps feel ing again tote As she did in to be sort things Oul and to decide what happens 1 iry to remember the government got along 200 years without she
