DAVID M. ABSHIRE is President of the Center for the Study of the Presidency. He is also co-founder, vice-chairman, and former CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies./e In government, he served on the staff of the White House Minority Leader from 1958-1960 Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, 1970-1973 mber of the Murphy Commission on the Organization of Government in the Conduct of Foreign Policy, 1975 airman of the Board for International Broadcasting 1974-1977: and Ambassador to NATO 1983-1987 d in the Cabinet as Special Counselor to President Reagan in 1987.