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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pennsylvania, Bill Hefner of North Carolina; Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Georgia Governor George Busbee, New York Lieutenant Governor Mario Cuomo and California State Treasurer Jesse Unruh. The politicians urged the President to declare his candidacy at once to keep support from slipping to his rival. "Kennedy needs to know what he's up against," said Alexander. Advised Cuomo: "Holding back just clouds the Carter record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Out to Stop Kennedy | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...light tanks or tinkering with its deployment. But he said that Soviet leaders are not willing to make major changes in the unit, in part because it has been in Cuba so long. At the same time, the Soviet sounded a sharp warning: "I don't know where our leadership will draw the line-maybe on this issue, more likely on the next one. But they will draw it somewhere, and they will draw it soon. You will hear our leaders asking, as some of yours ask now, 'Is SALT really worth all this nonsense?' " There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Battling over the Brigade | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...going through the State Department-the so-called back channels. Nixon moved sensitive negotiations into the White House where he could supervise them directly, get the credit personally, and avoid the bureaucratic dispute or inertia that he found so distasteful. In May 1971, the Secretary of State did not know of the negotiations in White House-Kremlin channels that led to the breakthrough in the SALT talks until 72 hours before a formal announcement. In July 1971, Rogers was told of my secret trip to China only after I was already on the way. In April 1972, my trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: SUMMONS TO POWER | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...Nixon transition headquarters in the Pierre Hotel. I thought it likely that the President-elect wanted my views on the policy problems before him. Chapin took me to a large living room and told me that the President-elect would be with me soon. I did not know then that Nixon was painfully shy. Meeting new people filled him with vague dread, especially if they were in a position to rebuff or contradict him. As was his habit before such appointments, Nixon was probably in an adjoining room settling his nerves and reviewing his remarks, no doubt jotted down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: SUMMONS TO POWER | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE SOVIET RIDDLE | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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