Vance offers a warning
When Jimmy Carter waspishly slighted his departed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, saying that he hoped Vance's successor would be "a stronger and more statesmanlike figure," Vance stoically said nothing. Last week, for the first time since he resigned in protest against the Iranian rescue mission, Vance spoke out in a major address. His message, as would have been expected, was strong and statesmanlike.
Vance mentioned Carter only once, with words of praise for his energy program. He never mentioned his pugnacious rival. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, at all. But he must have been recalling past arguments in...
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