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...date Vance has logged some 180,000 miles as Secretary of State, and with him nearly all the way has been either TIME's Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott or State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who had an exclusive interview with Secretary Vance before his latest trip (see NATION). When Vance took off for Africa, Talbott went along. Senior Writer Ed Magnuson used the extensive files from Ogden and Talbott for this week's cover story assessing the Secretary and his record...
Covering Vance is quite a different task from following Kissinger. Talbott remembers how much Kissinger liked holding airborne seminars for reporters and taking them into his confidence. He even enjoyed arguing with correspondents. At other times, recalls Ogden, "Kissinger would come to the back of the plane, perch on your armrest, pick cocktail nuts off your tray and tell outrageous and fascinating stories about officials he dealt with-all off the record, of course...
...aides will talk Vance into meeting with the press late at night, and the sessions often show the Secretary at his best-exhilarated at the end of a long day, laughing at the cracks of reporters and updating them on the day's events. Almost always , on hand: Talbott or Ogden...
Before leaving Washington for Africa and the Soviet Union, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sat down over breakfast with TIME Correspondents Strobe Talbott and Christopher Ogden to talk about himself and the Carter Administration's foreign policy. The two-hour interview in the antiques-filled James Madison Room atop the State Department Building ended when Vance had to rush off for a final pre-Moscow meeting with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Excerpts...
...prepare a confidential memo on late developments for Carter's bedtime reading. But Vance and Brzezinski have had their differences on matters of policy, notably on the question of how the U.S. should deal with the Soviet Union. They still do differ, reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, perhaps now more than ever...