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...President kept the letter, but left open his invitation that Vance reconsider. The Secretary agonized about the decision throughout the week, going over the pros and cons of resignation with Aides Peter Tarnoff and Anthony Lake. Meanwhile, the raid had occurred?and failed...
...have been seen as confirming Vance's view that with detente on the skids, SALT in limbo and anti-Sovietism resurgent, the Kremlin would figure it had little to lose by invading. Then last month came the clash between the two old rivals over the wisdom of the raid to rescue the hostages-and that ended the struggle...
...Jimmy Carter wants as his new Secretary of State, not surprisingly, disagrees with his predecessor on the issue that precipitated Vance's departure -the aborted raid to rescue the hostages. "I'd be disappointed if that option had not been explored and tried if feasible," says Ed Muskie. But he adds that he does not feel "comfortable" with the military options and believes the side effects entail "pretty high risks." Though he has no exact formula as yet, the Senator from Maine would like to offer Iran some incentives to surrender the hostages-what he calls "a carrot...
...least one hostage was freed by Jimmy Carter's aborted rescue raid: the one in the White House. Five days after the failed mission to save the 53 American captives in Tehran, the President jettisoned his six-month-old pledge not to campaign until the hostages were home. Speaking at an energy briefing in the East Room, Carter lamely explained that the nation's problems "are manageable enough for me to leave the White House for a limited travel schedule, including some campaigning if I choose...
...Carter's other political strategists did not much care what 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...