Zbigniew Brzezinski spent three hours with TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden before Jimmy Carter's election, discussing the problems that will soon become his daily concern.
ON HENRY KISSINGER'S POLICIES: I don't think he has been overly soft on the Soviets. I think he has overemphasized the bilateral Soviet-American relationship to the point of slighting other relationships, creating uneasiness and overselling detente."
U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS: "We should develop closer East-West relations, but our public must be told that this relationship is competitive by history's dictates and cooperative by contemporary necessities. I don't think we can use...