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Tough Infighting. The accent was on experience. Seven of Carter's 18 nominees held Cabinet or sub-Cabinet level jobs in previous Administrations. Three were announced earlier: Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State, Charles Schultze as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and W. Michael Blumenthal as Treasury Secretary. Four more veterans were tapped last week...
...graduate of Holy Cross and Harvard Law, Califano grew "bored with practicing law and splitting stocks." He fired off a job application to the then general counsel for the Department of Defense, Cyrus Vance, in 1961 and was hired four days after being interviewed. Three years later he emerged as special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and a year after that held the same post under Johnson as assistant in charge of domestic programs...
Sorensen was hotly opposed by Senator Henry Jackson and the AFL-CIO for being too dovish. But he had the crucial backing of Cyrus Vance, Carter's choice for Secretary of State, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the new National Security Adviser. Sorensen worked closely with both on the Carter campaign in New York...
...under Jimmy Carter's Administration is its accent−from Henry Kissinger's German to Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski's Polish. As the special presidential assistant for national security affairs, the brilliant 48-year-old Warsaw-born academic will share with Carter and incoming Secretary of State Cyrus Vance the primary responsibility for the conduct of America's foreign affairs. Whether he will overshadow Vance as McGeorge Bundy sometimes did Dean Rusk and Kissinger almost always did William Rogers, remains to be seen...
Politically, the implications are also great. Yamani's move is something of a victory for U.S. economic diplomacy. TIME learned that President Ford called Saudi Ambassador Ali Abdallah Alireza to the White House for a private talk. Cyrus Vance, who is Jimmy Carter's choice to be Secretary of State, met separately with the ambassador, and after the split in Qatar, Vance praised the Saudis' "courageous and statesmanlike" action. Yamani, for his part, declared, "We expect the West, especially the United States, to show appreciation for what we have done." The U.S., he said, could indicate gratitude...