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...best I can." Then the Carters boarded a helicopter on the South Lawn and choppered to the gleaming blue and white Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base for the flight to Vienna. The President was accompanied by Vance; Defense Secretary Harold Brown; National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; General George Seignicus, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and four Georgians from the White House: Hamilton Jordan, Frank Moore, Jody Powell and Gerald Rafshoon. All of them carried under their arms black, 3-in.-thick briefing books...
...preparing to fly to the U.S. for a four-day "private" visit that would include an important bit of unofficial summitry in Washington. President Carter has scheduled roughly three hours of talks with the Chancellor, who will also meet with congressional leaders and breakfast with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. In addition, the U.S. public will be able to take the Chancellor's measure when he fans out to give three major speeches in his fluent, almost unaccented English: at Columbia, S.C., where he will attend a centennial celebration for the late former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes...
...skilled version of an unimaginative breed." Georgians Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, says Fallows, cultivate the laid-back style of "cool guys getting the job done without trying too hard or taking it all too seriously." One of the few to win a favorable notice is National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, "high-strung and vain," but also "the one among Carter's senior associates who tried every day to test the limits of his job and come up with new ideas...
However, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, his deputy, David Aaron, and Carter himself were all dissatisfied with the Vladivostok accord. Its subceiling of 1,320 multiple-warhead launchers allowed the two sides "freedom to mix" land-based and submarine-launched MlRVed missiles. The Soviets could concentrate their MIRV force on land, where
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and White House National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski have frequently offered differing views of U.S. foreign policy. Brzezinski tends to be more combative, Vance more conciliatory. But a few weeks ago, when they discovered that they had independently scheduled May Day speeches in Chicago and New York City, the two top policymakers seized on the chance to get together. They conferred by phone, and each read and approved the other's draft. The result: the most comprehensive outline to date of the principles guiding U.S. foreign policy...