Jimmy Carter and the Middle East pp 161-180 | Cite as
Lines Blur as Election Approaches (April 1979–November 1980)
Abstract
“Foreign policy should offer you the greatest opportunity for the exercise of Presidential leadership, in a manner that could signifi-cantly influence the outcome of the elections,” National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski advised President Carter three months prior to Election Day 1980. However, he added, “our biggest problem is... the need to get our story out more forcefully and effectively.” 1 Yet during the last year and a half of Carter’s term, even the Camp David Accords, which Brzezinski hoped to highlight as the president’s greatest foreign policy achievement, provided little political comfort to a president ricocheting from one crisis to another.
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