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...National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski arrives at the President's study to give his regular morning intelligence briefing. He hands the President a report. "You should know," Brzezinski says, "that the Algerians are interested in better relations with us." That comment and other information on Africa prompts a later call to Vice President Mondale. With an edge of irritation in his voice, Carter says, "I want you to tell Cy [Vance] and Zbig that I want them to move in every possible way to get Somalia to be our friend." The President mentions other African countries to which...
...intrusions. Within reason, Carter seems almost to welcome them. The White House operation is remarkably relaxed. Hamilton Jordan regularly dresses as if he were about to spend the afternoon quail hunting: sports shirt open at the neck, khaki work pants, heavy-duty boots. He, Jody Powell (shirtsleeves and vest), Zbigniew Brzezinski (baggy pants, Dagwood haircut) and others of the inner circle move calmly and freely in and out of the President's presence. They are respectful, at ease and only mildly deferential. The President sets this tone. He does not seem to have gone through a period of unusual...
Carter and his foreign policy advisers, including Russian-speaking National Security Council Chief Zbigniew Brzezinski, dissected the Brezhnev speech line by line. "He's trying to get Vance on the defensive," said one Administration insider. "It's the classic Soviet prenegotiating position: 'What's ours is ours and what's yours is negotiable...
...Semantics. But there is a difference between such bloopers and Carter's own policy pronouncements. While he sometimes stumbles over fine points of diplomacy. Carter's remarks have generally been deliberate despite their informality. Before his news conference last week, both Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the White House National Security Adviser, suggested that Carter not use the term defensible borders. They proposed a more politically neutral substitute: "secure frontiers." Carter rather gingerly used both concepts and described the difference between them as "just semantics." Says TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, assessing Carter...
Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, learned of the Uganda developments at 7 a.m. last Friday from wire-service reports. At 8:30, during the routine morning briefing, he informed the President, who asked to be kept advised every hour of what was happening. There were American intelligence reports that a high-level Cuban military delegation, probably headed by a general, had arrived in Uganda. There were no Cuban troops in sight, but it was possible that the delegation had come to discuss the question of military support. The White House decided to consult other African leaders...