Cyrus Roberts Vance Sr. was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Prior to serving in that position, he was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Johnson administration. During the Kennedy administration he was Secretary of the Army and General Counsel of the Department of Defense.
Cyrus Vance
The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meeting with Alfred Leroy Atherton, William H. Sullivan, Vance, President Jimmy Carter, and Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1977
Vance working to free hostages in the State Department Operations Center, 1979
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
The deputy secretary of defense is a statutory office and the second-highest-ranking official in the Department of Defense of the United States of America.
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
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