Word: cyrus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President-elect Carter's choice of Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State is disappointing for a number of reasons. As a Defense Department official during the Johnson administration, Vance participated in high-level policy-making in the period when the United States was maximizing its involvement in Vietnam. Vance did not protest the war, he did not resign his post, and indeed by representing the U.S. at the Paris peace talks, he served as an active instrument of the Johnson war policy. These factors alone should disqualify him from holding the highest foreign policy office in the nation...
Just Fluff. Carter made it clear that Vice President-elect Walter Mondale and Jordan would be his two closest advisers when the final decisions are made on the key appointments. Jordan retracted an earlier statement that to have familiar figures like former Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance in the Cabinet would represent a failure for the President-elect. At the same time, he emphasized, "If, however, everyone in the Carter Government had been here before, I think we would have failed." Jordan added that for every major position, Carter wants at least one minority figure and one woman...
Most buzzed about is the Secretary of State position. The names suggested most often as successors to Henry Kissinger: New York Lawyer Cyrus Vance, 59, a well-regarded former Deputy Secretary of Defense with strong roots in the Eastern foreign policy establishment; J. Paul Austin, 61, chairman of Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co., whose executive skills impressed Carter when the President-elect was Georgia's Governor; and Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, 62. Former Under Secretary of State George Ball, 66, is another oft-mentioned possibility, but he has run into strong Jewish opposition for suggesting an imposed...
...pleased that he has tempered his earlier cries for cuts in the defense budget-a very sensitive matter to the NATO country facing the most threatening Warsaw Pact troops. European officials, moreover, have long known and trusted a number of Carter's foreign affairs advisers, like Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski...
...making an ostentatious show of frugality. First out of the bus was former Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke, his rumpled seersucker jacket slung over his shoulder and his face flushed in the breezeless, 101° heat. He was followed by two former Deputy Defense Secretaries, Paul Nitze and Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown, Washington Attorneys James Woolsey and Walter Slocombe, Brookings Institution Fellow Barry Blechman and Columbia University Political Scientist Lynn Davis...