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Seeking a way to rattle the chessboard, McFarlane reasoned that a defensive research program would attract bipartisan support at home and might someday be useful in Geneva. He mentioned these possibilities to Reagan, knowing he would be receptive. But McFarlane was still a relatively junior player. Though he quickly persuaded...
Next Watkins got his colleagues on the Joint Chiefs of Staff to approve a briefing for the President. On Feb. 11, 1983, they sat down with Reagan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. The nominal agenda for the luncheon meeting was offensive weapons. Watkins took the opportunity to...
Weinberger's briefing-book answers, often delivered word for word more than once in the same committee hearing, beneath eyes hooded in apparent boredom, have not worn well on Capitol Hill. "It's like there's a tape recorder in his head," complains a Republican Senator. "You hear the same...
The current investigation was apparently triggered last September, when reports in U.S. newspapers, based on leaks from a CIA briefing to a congressional committee in Washington, said that New Delhi had considered a pre-emptive strike on a Pakistani nuclear installation before it was capable of producing nuclear weapons. The...
Baker the competitor is happy to be leaving the White House a winner. He insists the pressures of the office did not get to him, but associates say he was wounded by Debategate. The case, investigated by a congressional subcommittee and the Justice Department, concerned briefing papers purloined from Jimmy...