almost anybody in the ferment of foreign policy thinkers. some people who really disagreed with him about the cold war? every aspect of foreign policy. he had such a grand strategic sweep. in terms of his time in office and his views about the world, extraordinary degrees of fervent admiration, some disagreement, but bipartisan wide respect. there was no one who didn t take him seriously and didn t credit the goodness of the intentions behind his views, even when they fiercely disagreed. i was reading this weekend, talbot had been a critic of just how fierce of a hawk dr. brzezinski had been about the soviet union. and he interviewed him after the soviet union said, that this guy
anyway, you were saying at least he never called me stunningly superficial. we ll always have that. he was so kind. i actually developed such an affection for him in later years and through mika and through being on the program with him, when you would be kind much to include me with him, i saw a different side of him completely. the fact is that he defined originality and principle in foreign policy and we don t see that, it s such a rare, rare he did that in our family as well. i will tell you. he always kept people off balance. bobby ghosh said the greatest compliment he had ever seen he wrote something i think on syria, he wrote wonderful analysis, weak conclusion. the thing about dr. brzezinski,
he meant to so many people, but here is our best attempt. brzezinski, is feisty, aggressi, innovative. his task force chaired by brzezinski. dr. brzezinski, i can t say enough about his contribution to our country. in his life, he was called a peacemaker, cold warrior, hardened realist, bridge builder. others called him professor, mentor, author and friend. many called him one of the most influential foreign policy minds of our time. to those who knew him he was sbig, to my brothers and me, he was dad, to his grandchildren, chief, salute and all. joining us, joining us dr. b
brzezinski was thrust on the world stage as national security adviser to president jimmy carter. the first order of business, learning how to pronounce his name. he sent out a handwritten note, name how to spell and pronounce dr. big knew brzezinski. where i screwed up, the w should be an f, they spelled it wrong on your book. spell that. z b igniew. [ bell ]. you are by far the best guess we have ever had as far as accumulated scrabble points. soon enough big knew brzezinski did big a household name, something only possible in america. when i was sworn in with the cabinet members, i walked from that to my new office and i said to myself, from now on, for the
he writes, brzezinski would have been appalled but not surprised by the results of trump s group of seven meeting on saturday after which german chancellor angela merkel said the era when america could rely on american leadership was over. brzezinski s worries about trump grew out of his belief in the interdependent world that the united states had made. having seen western values and freedoms crushed in poland, he was protective of them. trump s populism was abhorrent to this son of polish aristocracy. but it wasn t just that. brzezinski didn t think trump understood what a precious creation he was jeopardizing by so wrerecklessly challenging th institutions of the west. there was a lot of fallout about that foreign trip. in a tweet president trump talked about his trip being a great trip.