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President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was about to replace the Ford Administration's NSSMs (National Security Study Memoranda) with PSMs (Presidential Study Memoranda)-until he realized it might be awkward trying to pronounce that particular acronym. Brzezinski quickly rechristened the reports PRMs (Presidential Review Memoranda), and voila, a new acronym was born-pronounced prims-and certain soon to become among Washington's best-admired bureaucratic mots...
They spent one hour and 20 minutes with Carter and his foreign policy formulators, including Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Worried by Administration declarations about what Israel might have to give up in exchange for peace, the Jewish leaders sought -and gained-reassurances from Carter. Said one: "He was so forthcoming that he allayed some of our concerns...
...Vance, Brzezinski, Jordan and Stuart Eizenstat, the White House Issues Coordinator, invited individual Jewish leaders to meetings or lunches, fielding their complaints and assuring them that they had nothing to fear from Carter. Mondale had half a dozen meetings with, among others, Schindler and Hyman Bookbinder, the Washington chief of the American Jewish Committee. Although the Vice President had done what one of his staffers called "a lot of reassuring," that was not quite enough. As one of the Jewish leaders dryly noted: "He's not the President...
...Belgrade conference. Thanking the President upon his release, Toth observed that "when you are out there in the woods alone you begin to wonder if anyone is taking an interest." Heading for home, Toth and his family flew to London, where he was telephoned by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. After telling Toth of Carter's relief that the incident was over, Brzezinski said: "We were also concerned because your treatment raises certain fundamental principles-the free flow of information, free access and freedom of the press." Brzezinski was choosing his words carefully to echo the language...
Jewish leaders fear that their cause is not being properly represented. Middle East diplomacy, they complain, is in the hands of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and his assistant William Quandt, a specialist in Palestinian affairs. Brzezinski is thought to be pro-Arab-perhaps unfairly-by some supporters of Israel because he was one of the authors of a 1975 Brookings report calling for Israel's withdrawal to its 1967 borders. The two Jewish aides closest to Carter, Domestic Policy Assistant Stuart Eizenstat and White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz, are not considered sufficiently attuned to the Jewish community...