The Talbott Communique is most noteworthy, however, for the emphasis it places on the ABM Treaty.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Post-Mortem on the Summit: The Talbott Communique
Kargman positions her main character, Holly Talbott, as more down-to-earth than her fellow hedge fund wives.
Talbott's fingerprints can be clearly seen in the language and content of the Joint Statement.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Post-Mortem on the Summit: The Talbott Communique
People have "unrealistic expectations, " says David Talbott, the head squash coach at Yale.
"His job was to bring poor people together to wield as much power as people with money, " says Madeline Talbott.
Ahtisaari, Chernomyrdin and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott were due to meet again in Helsinki, Finland, on Friday.
Nor does Mr Talbott's character, at least on the surface, betray much romanticism or strong emotion of any other kind.
But Strobe Talbott, America's envoy, insisted on arrival in Moscow on June 10th that there would be no Russian zone.
In one amusing passage, for example, Mr Talbott describes a chat between President Clinton, Mr Gore and some of their speechwriters.
Undersecretary of State Strobe Talbott said the proposed mission would be counterproductive.
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In an interview on CNN yesterday, moreover, Ambassador-at-large for Russian affairs Strobe Talbott stated that Russia was a country "armed with biological weapons" (BW).
In the meantime, what unites the deal-makers in America's Treasury and cerebral types like Mr Talbott is their militant agnosticism about Russia's medium-term outlook.
Indeed, the smart money right now might well be on the seemingly long-shot bet that Warren Christopher will outlast Strobe Talbott at the State Department.
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Americans will shortly have an opportunity to decide whether they wish to endorse the Clinton-Gore approach to national security spelled out in the Talbott Communique.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Post-Mortem on the Summit: The Talbott Communique
Secretary Talbott's speech was only one of the indications that Washington is finally awakening to what is at stake in the Transcaucasus and Caspian Basin.
Talbott has a talent for the precise sludge of adolescent speech.
"LeBron is going to be playing squash now, " says Yale's Talbott.
This is hardly what Strobe Talbott, America's deputy secretary of state, had in mind when he recently called for Turkey's generals to get out of politics.
Clinton told Yeltsin that Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott was being sent to Moscow to Moscow to work out details of Russian participation in a Kosovo security force.
Mr Talbott, often sneered at in Washington for his supposed Russophilia, has insisted with particular firmness that all but a handful of Serb troops should withdraw from the province.
Russian Balkans envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott were to meet in Helsinki with Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari for more talks on ending the crisis.
"Competition among the regulators helps to create the best regulatory environment, " says Scott Talbott, a lobbyist with the Financial Services Roundtable, which represents industry heavyweights like JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citigroup.
As Strobe Talbott and Viktor Chernomyrdin, respective envoys for America and Russia, held their latest round of talks in Moscow on May 26th, it was clear that differences of approach still existed.
But her Washington and Wall Street connections also show that she is able to draw support from those corners as well: Madeleine Albright, Warren Buffett, Donald Trump and Strobe Talbott have given her support.
Talbott's preeminent role in the summit -- and, indeed, in shaping U.S.-Russian relations for most of the past eight years -- was underscored by his inclusion in the two leaders' intimate dinner Saturday night.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Post-Mortem on the Summit: The Talbott Communique
The fact that Russia eventually agreed to help rather than hinder the West in Yugoslavia probably says more about its financial dependence (on soft western loans) than about Mr Talbott's cunning, patience or literary sensitivities.
If history teaches anything, it is that the Russians are adept at taking advantage of Talbott and his associates, finding ways even in moments of acute weakness to play for advantage, to have it both ways.
Clinton told Putin that changes would have to be made in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty before the United States could engage in the next round of nuclear arms reduction talks, known as START III, Talbott said.
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In his capacity as Deputy Secretary of State, Talbott has been in Moscow over the past few days, trying to cobble together a summit agenda and holding meetings with senior Russian leaders, including a visit with President Yeltsin today.
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