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This week's meeting probably would not have been scheduled at all had Cyrus Vance not resigned as Secretary of State. So long as he was to represent the U.S. at the Austrian festivities, the White House was unsure about whether he should see Gromyko. Vance felt he should, but presidential advisers argued that the Soviets, not the Americans, ought to make the initial gesture to resume high-level contacts. It was Moscow's aggression in Afghanistan, after all, that had ruptured U.S.-Soviet ties in the first place...
...occasion to rap his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski, said Carter, "is kind of feisty. He's aggressive. He's innovative. He puts forth bright ideas, some of which have to be discarded." But Carter then dealt far more harshly with former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Said the President: "I see Ed Muskie as being a much stronger and more statesmanlike ... figure who will be a more evocative spokesman for our nation's foreign policy. I would prefer that Ed Muskie not be so personally involved in the details and negotiations with other nations." That...
...handwritten letter of resignation to President Carter, Cyrus Vance declared: "I look with pride and satisfaction at the many actions and new directions which have marked our foreign policy under your leadership." Then he listed the accomplishments for which he wants to be remembered. Yet even that recitation -by which Vance meant to console both Carter and himself-has a melancholy ring. It is a list of what may well turn out to be pyrrhic victories, noble failures and unfinished business...
Henry A. Kissinger is the only person ever to have served as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State. For a 26-month period, in fact, he held both jobs simultaneously. Thus he is in a unique position to comment on Cyrus Vance's resignation as Secretary of State and on the part played by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in that stunningly timed departure. In the following exclusive interview with TIME Washington Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski, Kissinger talks of the tensions that arise between the two powerful jobs, suggests some rules that should govern relations between the Security...
...excuse he used to leave the Rose Garden. For weeks, they had been telling him that both his standing with the public and his fund raising were suffering from his stay-at-home strategy. Then came the unsuccessful raid in Iran, followed three days later by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's resignation, which amounted to a stinging vote of no confidence that was only partly offset by Carter's choice of Senator Edmund Muskie as Secretary of State. The President decided that he had little choice but to begin campaigning. Said a top aide...