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While the burdens of Vietnam should not be placed solely upon the shoulders of Cyrus Vance, neither should he be welcomed back to government service with unquestioning complacency. That he has been so welcomed is an unsettling measure of how quickly and easily many observers forget the disasters of the past. Vance played his own particular role during the Vietnam years, a role that is not vitiated by his late support for negotiations, which in and of itself offers no evidence of assumptions questioned or lessons learned...
...introducing Cyrus Vance to the press a little over a week ago, Carter stated that "It would be almost ridiculous to bring someone into the Secretary of State's job who had no experience in international affairs, who had no experience in international economics, who had never negotiated a major conclusion among states and who had very little acquaintance on their own part with other countries." In a very real sense, Cyrus Vance's ticket to power was Jimmy Carter's perceived weakness and uncertainty in foreign affairs and the American politicians' traditional compulsion to seek some additional legitimacy...
Just 31 days after his election, Jimmy Carter made his first Cabinet-level appointments and thereby offered the first solid clues as to the future shape of his Administration. As Secretary of State, he selected Cyrus Vance, 59, an urbane, methodical, Yale-educated Manhattan lawyer who had been Deputy Defense Secretary in the Johnson Administration and a familiar figure in and around U.S. foreign policy for more than a decade. At the same time, Carter also announced that a close personal friend, Thomas Bertram Lance, 45, a bulky (6 ft. 4 in., 235 Ibs.), blunt-speaking banker and college dropout...
...choosing a successor to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Presidentelect Jimmy Carter could hardly have selected anyone with a more contrasting style. Cyrus Roberts Vance is a low-key, prudent team player who made his reputation as a skilled troubleshooter for Lyndon Johnson. He is so uncomfortable with personal publicity that photographs often show him wearing a slightly rueful half-smile...
Flying back to New York from Plains, Ga., last week, Cyrus Vance talked with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter about his upcoming job as Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State and about the state of the world. Schecter's report...