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Suppose Jimmy Carter had defeated Gerald Ford in the close election of 1976. Who would Carter appoint to his national security team? My first thought was Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski as National Security Adviser. But Carter's campaign manager Hamilton Jordan specifically rejected the idea, and it is hard for me to believe he would have done so without Carter's approval. ("if, after the inauguration, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed...And I'd quit. But that's not gong to happen. You're going to see new faces, new ideas. The government is going to be run by people you never heard of." http://books.google.com/books?id=N1KIAFtFb8gC&pg=PA98)
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