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White House Years will obviously be required reading for all serious students of modern foreign affairs. We are confident TIME'S readers will find it a compelling-and certainly controversial-account of a turbulent era in U.S. history...
Kennedy feels that Carter has not compiled a bad record. "We have not been at war; he has had some foreign policy success," says Kennedy. But he returns to the economy as the issue on which he will focus: "Our economic vitality is crucial to the politics of this nation. A strong economy is the best social program we can have. And these economic issues affect the confidence the people have in all our institutions...
...Rooseveltian compromise, in which Congress let the President meet emergencies, has broken down. Today, Congress demands an equal voice. Right now Schlesinger sees our constitutional system as a road map to frustration. "It may require an external shock to set it straight," he says. "It may be a major foreign policy setback, and then the public will insist that we have cohesion in Government. I just hope such a shock is not fatal. The 1980s will be a tune of severe peril...
Schlesinger sees a breakdown in discipline in the Executive structure of Government. The press is in a destructive mood, he believes. "It comes because of disappointment with Government," he says. "L.B.J. had a lot to do with it, loading on all of those Government programs. J.F.K. raised foreign policy expectations. All of this created grand illusions that all problems are solvable. All problems are not solvable...
...little importance to it. Last spring, worried about Cuban influence in Nicaragua and the Caribbean, Zbigniew Brzezinski's National Security Council asked U.S. intelligence agencies to re-evaluate the Soviet role in Cuba. As late as mid-July, Defense Secretary Harold Brown assured Senator Frank Church of the Foreign Relations Committee that this Soviet role had not changed. In August, however, after a U.S. camera satellite photographed a Russian brigade on maneuvers with armored equipment near Havana, the U.S. concluded that a Soviet brigade was in Cuba as a combat unit. When informed of this conclusion, Church made...