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When Rosalynn was at his side, in between her repeated campaign forays to Iowa and New England, she continued to perform her extraordinary role as the President's most trusted adviser. Around the White House she is known as a "Brzezinski-liner" because she has long shared the security adviser's hawkish views, both on the Soviets and on the plight of the American captives in Tehran. She has warned that Soviet assurances of future cooperation should be mistrusted. She has also argued that persuasion has no effect on the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, and as far back as when...
...Carter worked on the speech that would provide his answers, he immersed himself in history, reading up especially on how previous Presidents and other world leaders had responded to similar crises. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was in and out of Carter's private office as many as a dozen times daily, while Secretary Vance, according to an aide, just about "moved over to the White House." Other top aides served as sounding boards for the President's ideas, as did veteran foreign policy experts from outside the Administration, like Clark Clifford, the former Secretary of Defense, who has counseled...
That may explain the Brzezinski lapse. It didn't help when Executive Editor Ben Bradlee (who is married to Quinn) had to run a box saying it wasn't true that Brzezinski had unzipped his fly in front of a female reporter. Quinn had written this on the basis of a vague recollection, without bothering to recheck. The Charlotte Observer was outraged: "Such errors raise questions about the newspaper's motives as well as its competence." The Post felt obliged to run a letter from nine former members of Brzezinski's staff disputing Quinn...
Quinn began and ended her series by saying that Brzezinski would consent to be interviewed only if she would move in with him while his wife was away for a few weeks. Brzezinski is generally regarded as a happily married square with an unfortunate taste for jocular banter of the kind that Henry Kissinger, the "secret swinger," used to affect, as if being considered sexy improved on the dour image of being brainy. But reporters always have the advantage: their account of any conversation is what gets printed. Quinn's friends probably put it down as jocular banter when...
...Brzezinski got burned by refusing to be interviewed. More intriguing is why public figures consent to see reporters famous for making their subjects look bad. Are they challenged by thinking they're clever enough to be an exception? "The stupidest thing" he did, Kissinger has said, was the 1972 interview he gave Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, attributing his popularity to his being "the cowboy who rides all alone into the town ... and does everything by himself." Fallaci, tough and intelligent, is the best interviewer around, if interviews are judged (as journalists usually judge them) not by whether the subject...