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Late last week, the President and CIA Director Stansfield Turner began briefing congressional leaders on the Administration's evidence. The four who attended the first such meeting seemed to come away convinced. Arizona's Republican Congressman John Rhodes said afterward that the information indicated the Cubans had been working with...
Pressure to get the gas issue settled has been building for weeks on the joint congressional conference committee that is wrestling with Carter's bill. Amazed and frustrated that a full year had passed with no energy legislation, Carter on Thursday afternoon told a White House press briefing: "We...
Yet Carter was not long in office before he began publicly scolding the Soviet Union for its harassment of political dissidents. Dispatched on a mission to Moscow by the President and told to carry out "open" diplomacy, Vance found himself uncharacteristically briefing reporters on what the new Administration was demanding...
Then the pace quickens. A CIA agent gives Vance a briefing at 7:30. At 7:40, he calls in Deputy Secretary Warren Christopher, Under Secretary for Political Affairs David Newsom, Director of Policy Planning Anthony Lake, and Secretariat Director Peter Tarnoff for a ten-minute meeting to pinpoint the...
All right, said the President. If Zorinsky would provide a list of 250 Nebraskans, Carter would invite them to the White House for a briefing. Delighted, Zorinsky provided the names, and 190 Nebraskans showed up at the White House a week later, to be greeted at the door by Rosalynn...