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During the talks Carter will have at his side only Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal; the other leaders will also be limited to their foreign and finance ministers. Other aides, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, will wait in an adjoining room. When the particular expertise of one of them is needed, the head of state will push a button by his chair. A red light will flash in the subordinates' area on a board numbered 1 through 8, indicating which leader needs assistance...
Below the group of seven-and, of course, Vice President Walter Mondale, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, James Schlesinger and Budget Chief Bert Lance-is the "junior varsity." These are the dozen or so lesser aides who keep the White House whirring and the senior seven free to concentrate on their own functions...
...National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski arrives at the President's study to give his regular morning intelligence briefing. He hands the President a report. "You should know," Brzezinski says, "that the Algerians are interested in better relations with us." That comment and other information on Africa prompts a later call to Vice President Mondale. With an edge of irritation in his voice, Carter says, "I want you to tell Cy [Vance] and Zbig that I want them to move in every possible way to get Somalia to be our friend." The President mentions other African countries to which...
...Within reason, Carter seems almost to welcome them. The White House operation is remarkably relaxed. Hamilton Jordan regularly dresses as if he were about to spend the afternoon quail hunting: sports shirt open at the neck, khaki work pants, heavy-duty boots. He, Jody Powell (shirtsleeves and vest), Zbigniew Brzezinski (baggy pants, Dagwood haircut) and others of the inner circle move calmly and freely in and out of the President's presence. They are respectful, at ease and only mildly deferential. The President sets this tone. He does not seem to have gone through a period of unusual exuberance...
Carter and his foreign policy advisers, including Russian-speaking National Security Council Chief Zbigniew Brzezinski, dissected the Brezhnev speech line by line. "He's trying to get Vance on the defensive," said one Administration insider. "It's the classic Soviet prenegotiating position: 'What's ours is ours and what's yours is negotiable...