Word: zbigniew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to TIME, commenting on Vance's designated successor...
...reasons behind Vance's quitting raised grave questions about nothing less than President Carter's methods and judgment in forming foreign policy. On one level, the resignation involved a personal struggle. As Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance had lost his duel with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, 52, over who was to be the chief architect of the Administration's foreign policy. Perhaps even more important, the resignation reflected the power that had accrued to the office of National Security Adviser, a post that was not even a part of the U.S. Government until...
From almost every corner last week, Ed Muskie was warned about the problem that Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Adviser, would create for him. If it wasn't Brzezinski himself, it was that damnable job that kept getting in the way of Secretaries of State. Unless, of course, like Kissinger, one controlled both jobs...
Normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski handled the announcement in a way that worsened Soviet-American relations and humiliated Vance by making him look as though he had been cut out of the play...
...both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State. For a 26-month period, in fact, he held both jobs simultaneously. Thus he is in a unique position to comment on Cyrus Vance's resignation as Secretary of State and on the part played by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in that stunningly timed departure. In the following exclusive interview with TIME Washington Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski, Kissinger talks of the tensions that arise between the two powerful jobs, suggests some rules that should govern relations between the Security Adviser and the Secretary, and confesses how he realized belatedly that...