Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I ngā tau o te 1960, i mahi a Brzezinski mō John F. Kennedy hei kaitohutohu māna, kātahi anō hoki mō te whakahaere a Lyndon B. Johnson. I te wa o nga whiringa 1976, i tohutohu ia ki a Carter mo te kaupapa here a iwi ke, katahi ka mahi ia hei Kaitohutohu Haumarutanga Motu (NSA) mai i te 1977 ki te 1981, i muri i a Henry Kissinger. Ka rite ki te NSA, i tauturu ia Carter i roto i te whakahaere ā-taiao o ngā take ao, pērā i te Camp David Accords, 1978; normalizing US-China whanaungatanga whakaaro te mutunga o te 1970s; te Iranian Revolution, i arahina ki te
Ko te raru o Iran, 1979; me te whakaekenga a Soviet ki Afghanistan, 1979.