Cyrus Vance

...too low to recover. If so, she risks becoming a third category of secretary - the nonentity or figurehead. Think Dean Rusk, Cyrus Vance, Warren Christopher, even Colin Powell. They mattered on occasion - sometimes a great deal. But in...

In this article: Hillary Clinton, Alexander Haig, George Shultz, Paul Nitze, John Foster Dulles, Colin Powell, and State Department

...that? Goldstein: People decide things differently. In the Carter administration, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance resigned because he was so opposed to an attempt to liberate American hostages in Iran. In the Bush years, then-Secretary of State...

In this article: Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, White House, Vietnam, Colin Powell, Joe Biden, and US

...& Order" franchise. The first-time candidate had built-in name recognition -- his late father was former Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance -- and the backing of incumbent Robert Morgenthau. Morgenthau, retiring at 90, is an institution...

In this article: Michael Bloomberg, William Thompson Jr., New York City, Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan, Quinnipiac University, Fernando Ferrer, and Cyrus R. Vance

...Robert Morgenthau's support. The first-time candidate also had built-in name recognition -- his late father was Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. With 23 percent of precincts reporting, de Blasio had 77 percent of the vote. The former city...

In this article: Manhattan, Robert Morgenthau, E mail, All rights reserved, Working Families Party, and Law & Order

...model for television's "Law & Order." Vance had the support of retiring incumbent Robert Morgenthau. His late father was Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Vance worked for Morgenthau in the 1980s, then became a defense lawyer and litigator.

In this article: Manhattan, Robert Morgenthau, Working Families Party, Law & Order, and NEW YORK

...whether to accede to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for up to 80,000 more troops in Afghanistan. He should keep in mind Cyrus Vance's warning before President Carter decided to send a Delta team to rescue the Iranian hostages (an...

In this article: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Dover, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan, Pentagon, Dover Air Force Base, and Terre Haute, Ind.

In a secret State Department memo authored three months before the 1979 embassy takeover, Laingen warned then-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance of the "overriding egoism" and "bazaar mentality" of the "Persian psyche," which, he concluded,...

In this article: Minnesota, United States, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, George W. Bush, Islam, Supreme Leader, and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

...he had strongly supported initially, was unwinnable. After his resignation he unsuccessfully urged Johnson not to bomb North Vietnam. Vance later resigned as President Carter's secretary of state after arguing again unsuccessfully against...

In this article: Caspar Weinberger, United States, Colin Powell, Lyndon Johnson, John Gardner, and World War II

...Carson served in the Jimmy Carter administration as staff officer for the staff secretariat for then-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, until 1979. He then went to Capitol Hill as staff director of the Africa subcommittee of the U.S. House...

In this article: Africa, Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C., Kenya, Bureau of African Affairs, Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States, Democracy, and State Department

...Party line on the November ballot but has said he will support the Democratic nominee. </p><p>Vance, the son of former Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, had 44 percent of the vote in the three-way race, with 99 percent of precincts...

In this article: Robert Morgenthau, Leslie Crocker Snyder, Manhattan, New York, Wabc-tv, Working Families Party, and Caroline Kennedy