Word: whited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the Mayaguez incident of 1975 had the National Security Council been called to a nighttime meeting so hastily convoked at the White House. By 8 p.m. last Thursday, the first of the dark limousines and Government sedans of Jimmy Carter's top security aides began rolling through the gates to let off their passengers at the West Wing entrance. When the summons had gone out from Carter, the officials were scattered across the capital. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had just delivered a pep talk for the SALT II accords at the posh Cosmos Club. He dashed...
...Senior Adviser Hedley Donovan. They were joined, some 70 min. later, by Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had been conferring in the President's family quarters. At 10:30 the meeting broke up. But less than nine hours later the limousines were back at the White House, and a second round was under way by 7:30 Friday morning. This time Hamilton Jordan, the President's Chief of Staff, sat in with the group. For 1 hr. 45 min. they continued their brainstorming...
Later that morning, yet another traditional portent of stormy political weather in Washington appeared at the White House. Gaunt and dignified, former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, 72, the all-purpose confidant of every Democratic President since Harry Truman, was coming to give what aid he could. Carrying his hat in one hand and his attache case in the other, Clifford strode slowly but purposefully across the North Lawn to the West Wing and Brzezinski's office...
...Cuba. Such a refusal appeared increasingly likely, as Vance had made absolutely no progress during talks earlier in the week in Manhattan with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Only two hours after saying goodbye to Gromyko on Thursday, Vance was back in Washington to brief Carter at the White House. Immediately after that, the two men headed for the Cabinet Room and the first of the NSC meetings...