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During three press conferences last week, Carter added six names, to bring his list of major appointees to eight (the first two being Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State and Bert Lance as director of the Office of Management and Budget). The new selections gave his emerging team a look of intelligence, efficiency and pragmatism...
...appointment of Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State was a very good sign to me. He is not a superstar sort−the kind who won't listen to anybody else. He told me he thought that more and more the U.N. is going to have to be not only a point from which our foreign policy is articulated, but also, because it is a listening post, a point where policy is formulated...
...speculated that Carter had already settled on his team and was prolonging the suspense to make news. This appeared not to be the case. At week's end he did not seem to have made up his mind about anyone other than the two Cabinet-level nominees already announced: Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State and Atlanta Banker Thomas Bertram Lance as Director of the Office of Management and Budget...
Just two weeks ago. Carter selected Cyrus Vance, a member of the Trilateral Commission, to be Secretary of State. No fewer than 16 other Trilateralites-about a quarter of the commission's U.S. members-are advising Carter during the transition. They include Carter's Vice President, Walter Mondale; the commission's former director, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who could become Carter's National Security adviser; one of the President-elect's leading union backers, U.A.W. Chief Leonard Woodcock; Attorney Paul Warnke, a possible choice for Secretary of Defense; and Columbia Professor Richard Gardner, a Carter foreign policy...
...been in his first dogfight but was recovering nicely, thank you. After Jan. 20, Henry Kissinger would spend a restful month at Banker David Rockefeller's home on St. Barthélemy Island in the Caribbean. There would be a fitting punishment for the diplomatic press once Cyrus Vance took office: "The only shuttle you guys will take from now on is between New York and Washington." Asked who would paint his official portrait, which will be displayed at the State Department, Kissinger replied with a grin: "I can pick the artist, but Vance can pick the corridor...