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Front Runner. Vance was the front runner for State from the start, mainly because so many of the people to whom the President-elect and his transition planners turned for suggestions almost automatically mentioned Vance first and with high praise. Said one Carter aide: "Vance received universally favorable comments across the whole spectrum of ideologies-including hawks and liberal, dovish types...
Treasury Secretary William Simon, one of the guests at the Moscow dinner, carried home a direct message to Carter from Brezhnev, who sought to assure the President-elect that he had no intention of "testing" or embarrassing him after he moved into the White House in January. While welcome, the Brezhnev message did not signal any shift in negotiating specifics...
Vance foresees a coordinated approach by the U.S. that would include the National Security Council and the State, Defense, Treasury and Agriculture departments. Said he: "There cannot and will not be the backbiting and jockeying for position that have occurred from time to time. President-elect Carter feels strongly about this, and so do I." Subject to Carter's approval, Vance favors having the Secretary of the Treasury sit in on National Security Council meetings...
Suave and witty as ever, Kissinger had just gracefully proposed a toast to "the health and success of President-elect José LÓpez Portillo." The guests at the elegant reception given by the Secretary and his wife Nancy in Mexico City last week raised their glasses, then waited expectantly to see how the trim, attractive woman in the turquoise evening gown would handle herself. Taking the microphone, Rosalynn Carter began to speak-and the assembly and the evening were hers...
...hasten the IMF'S decision and to seek still more assistance from the U.S., Andreotti is due in Washington this week for meetings with President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger. The Italian leader also hopes to talk to Jimmy Carter-or at least the President-elect's transition team-particularly since during the campaign Carter specifically viewed Communists in Western European governments as a concern but not a catastrophe and indicated interest in opening avenues of communication with them as President...