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Bruce Nelan, who last served in Washington in the late '60s and is now back covering the Pentagon, found that "officials' doors are literally open. It's surprising and refreshing." Chris Ogden was pleased to note that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's second official meal (after lunch with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin) was dinner with several State Department correspondents, including Ogden...
...State Department, Secretary Cyrus Vance sent a message to all U.S. posts overseas, noting that the Administration intended to conduct foreign policy "as openly as possible" and in ways that reflect "traditional American values." In the same spirit, he prohibited his staff from having secretaries secretly record or monitor telephone conversations. The practice was common in the Nixon and Ford administrations (New York Times Columnist William Safire dubbed the transcripts "the dead-key scrolls"). Carter liked Vance's order so much that he extended it to the White House; other Cabinet members are expected to follow suit...
Secretary of State-designate Cyrus Vance admitted that U.S. involvement in Viet Nam had been "a mistake" and that he, as the Pentagon's No. 2 official in the mid-'60s, had made "more than my share of mistakes." Incoming Labor Secretary F. Ray Marshall revealed that he had urged an economic stimulus package with a much greater emphasis on Government support of jobs than the plan approved by Carter. Fiery Patricia Harris, HUD nominee, rebuked Senator William Proxmire for challenging her qualifications to represent the poor who need housing help. "I am a black woman," she said...
...State, Cooper will be reporting to an old friend, Cyrus Vance, who is a member of the Yale Corporation, the university's board of directors. Vance and Cooper-as well as Carter and seven other officials of the incoming Administration-are also members of the Trilateral Commission, the liaison group of influential private and public citizens from Western Europe, Japan and the U.S. who regularly meet to discuss solutions to international problems (TIME, Dec. 20). Cooper attended one such meeting last week in Tokyo...
...attention. Not only does the 20-member commission include such Carter intimates as W. Michael Blumenthal, the future Secretary of the Treasury, and Columbia Professor of Law and International Organization Richard N. Gardner, but its findings were delivered to the President elect by Linowitz's friend Cyrus Vance...