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To: MrLucky who wrote (173921)	7/17/2006 6:04:37 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793938

Well, Albright (heh) is in a close race for the worse SoS with these two under Carter: attempted....and failed. Under Jimmy Carter, these two semibright bulbs were: Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance (1977-80) Edmund S. Muskie (1980-81) VANCE, CYRUS ROBERTS [Vance, Cyrus Roberts] 1917-2002, U.S. secretary of state (1977-80), b. Clarksburg, W.Va., grad. Yale (B.A., 1939, LL.B., 1942). After seeing action in the Navy during World War II, Vance practiced law, becoming a respected international lawyer. He entered government service as a Senate commiittee counsel in 1957. and later served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations as secretary of the army (1961-62), deputy secretary of defense (1964-67), and U.S. negotiator to the Paris Peace Conference on the Vietnam War (1968-69). He also served as special envoy to Cyprus (1967) and Korea (1968). As President Carter 's secretary of state, Vance opposed the 1980 attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran and resigned after the mission failed. He subsequently served on several diplomatic missions, in particular as head of United Nations' efforts to negotiate an end to the violence following the dissolution of Yugoslavia (1991-92). At various times Vance also served on the boards of corporations, universities, foundations, and other organizations, and was chairman (1988-1990) of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Edmund Muskie Secretary of State Following the resignation of Cyrus Vance in 1980, Muskie left the senate to succeed the latter as Secretary of State in the cabinet of Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Muskie took over at a difficult time; Vance had left following Carter's contentious decision to secretly attempt to rescue American hostages being held in Iran. Muskie attempted to bring the hostages home by diplomatic appeals to the United Nations and Iran. Ultimately, however, the Iran Hostage Crisis cost Carter the general election of 1980 and thus Muskie was returned to private life alongside him. Before he left office, however, Carter did grant his Secretary of State the honour of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 16 1981.