Word: zbigniew
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...State Department's seventh floor. Muskie, however, had just gone off to make a luncheon speech to the World Affairs Council. On his return, he read the message slowly, picked up a telephone to summarize the cable first to the President and then to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. With that, Muskie returned calmly to another problem: an interdepartmental squabble over U.S. policy in El Salvador. Said a surprised aide: "He showed no emotion...
During a trip to Pakistan last year with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Warren M. Christopher sat quietly by while the flamboyant National Security Adviser seemed intent on humiliating him. Brzezinski stuck so close to Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq that Christopher did not even have a chance to present the Pakistani ruler with the official U.S. gift. While Brzezinski clowned and traded quips with the press, Christopher, whose boss, Cyrus Vance, was Brzezinski's bitterest bureaucratic foe, patiently studied his briefing books. Not once did he betray his annoyance. Staunch discretion and a willingness to let others take credit have...
Over his second cup of coffee, Carter was asked whether he had any regrets about allowing National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to become too public a personality. The President defended Brzezinski and soon got quite worked up about the subject. Leaning forward in his chair, he declared that a President should be able to obtain whatever foreign policy advice he chooses. He noted that many of his foreign policy accomplishments sprang from Brzezinski's ideas. Carter recalled that when Cyrus Vance first went to China, there was no progress. "When Brzezinski went over," Carter said, "things began to move...
Examples from recent history may or may not prove accurate predictors for what develops under Reagan. In the national security adviser slot, Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Zbigniew K. Brzezinski--both former Harvard faculty members of Eastern European backgrounds and firm anti-Soviet leanings--used the White House panel as a power base to dominate foreign policy formulation, often substituting a harder line than the State Department...
That is where Allen's strength lies. He does not appear to entertain the grand strategic notions of previous National Security Advisers such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who as a close aide to Kissinger worked with Allen on the NSC: "He has never claimed to be a great theorist of foreign policy. He has a quick mind and can grasp issues very rapidly, but he is most skilled on the operational side. He is an expediter-in terms of getting staff work organized and of dealing with personalities." Allen demonstrated that skill when...