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During the Carter Administration, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance argued that arms control was so important that it ought to be insulated from linkage. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski retorted that Congress would impose punitive sanctions anyway, so the Administration had better Stay one jump ahead and exert some linkage of its own. But with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, domestic political support for arms control and détente all but evaporated...
...People ask me whether the stock market is bullish, bearish or confused. I think it's confused." -James Moltz, chairman of the Cyrus J. Lawrence brokerage firm
Whatever the extent of Engelmayer's negotiating expertise, Cyrus Vance found in "Getting to YES" "simple but powerful ideas that have already made a contribution at the international level." Elliot Richardson '41, LL.B. '47 said it was "perhaps the most useful book you will ever read." John Gardner found it "a splendid contribution to our understanding of conflict resolution." And John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus, concluded. "This is by far the best thing I've ever read about negotiation. It is equally relevant for the individual who would like to keep his friends, property...
Reagan tried to distinguish his proposal from a similar but ill-fated attempt by his predecessor to offer something novel to the Soviets. In March 1977, Jimmy Carter sent Cyrus Vance to Moscow with an ambitious scheme to redirect the SALT talks by asking the Soviets to make deep cuts in their existing arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Like Reagan, Carter had outlined his proposals in public before submitting them formally to the Soviets. Also like Reagan, Carter hoped that the Soviets could be persuaded to dismantle existing weaponry in exchange for U.S. promises not to deploy a planned system...
Last semester, Yale hired former congressman Robert Giaimo as a part-time Washington advisor, and also formed the corporation advisory committee on federal relations. The committee includes Giaimo, former President Gerald Ford, former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, and former Senator Abraham Ribicoff...