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Brown gets along well with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The three keep in touch via daily phone chats and weekly lunches in an attempt, as an aide puts it, "to prove that the infighting of the Nixon and Ford era does not have to be the norm." At meetings on U.S. SALT policy, says a State Department negotiator, "Brown is the dominating figure. He knows so incredibly much about nuclear weapons and the strategic balance that everyone defers to him. When the President isn't there, Brown is the de facto chairman...
Senate, Mondale was determined to play a substantive, not a ceremonial, role in the White House. Well aware of an old Washington rule-power is bred by proximity to power-he secured an office in the West Wing between Jordan's and that of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Thus positioned at the crossroads of foreign and domestic policy, he seldom visits his official quarters across the street from the White House in the Executive Office Building, which he has dubbed "Baltimore" because of its remoteness from real authority...
...growth of the massive production plant in capitalist and socialist nations, and in the uniformity of architectural styles in Moscow and New York, Galbraith finds convergence of culture. He takes heart in the development, presumably because of its implications for peaceful co-existence between the super powers. (Huntington and Brzezinski found it heartening 15 years ago, but have since gone on to more depressing theories...
...formal sessions over two days, the seven heads of government met in the wood-paneled state dining room of the Prime Minister's residence. Each leader was accompanied by his foreign affairs and economics ministers. Vance and Blumenthal thus flanked Carter, while experts like National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss were on call nearby. Between the meetings, ministerial-level officials conferred on special problems. Vance, for instance, huddled with British Foreign Secretary David Owen on strategy for a peaceful solution to the racial troubles in Rhodesia...
...consumer-price rise in 1977. Carter also read specially prepared biographies of the leaders he is about to meet, plus summaries of the 1975 summit at Rambouillet, France, and the 1976 sequel in Puerto Rico. Over the weekend at Camp David, he digested two briefing books assembled by Brzezinski with help from the State, Treasury and Defense departments and Special Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss. One book dealt with the Downing Street conference, the other with the NATO summit, which Carter will also attend in London. "What he likes," says Brzezinski, "is a combination of detailed information and a large overview...