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...collaborative reply, the military chiefs concluded that the new Pershing missile was important though not essential. But that answer to Reagan's question, routed first through Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, never reached the President. Instead, Weinberger had an aide, Richard Perle, paraphrase the Joint Chiefs' memo and graft it onto an elaborate Pentagon condemnation of the Nitze-Kvitsinsky plan. A month after the Swiss mountainside tête-à-tête, Nitze and Rostow were chastised by Clark in a memo to Shultz for exceeding their negotiating authority. Clark denies that the memo was a reprimand...
...decision marked a sharp turn in White House thinking. Though Reagan had always insisted that military spending must be exempt from budgetary restraints, he is now proposing a reduction for the sole purpose of shrinking the deficit. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who fought against the cuts and lost, made that reasoning explicit. Ashen-faced and biting off his words, Weinberger declared, "If it were not for the deficit, we would not have any suggestion that we not carry out the full program...
...White House, let alone with the Soviets, is highly problematic. Its advocates must first sell their own boss, Secretary of State George Shultz. If he supports their recommendation and takes it to Reagan, he will probably wind up in a head-to-head struggle with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who is totally committed to zero-zero. The compromisers have one major ally: Chief Negotiator Paul Nitze, who is threatening to quit unless he is sent back to Geneva with less rigid negotiating instructions...
...quintessential performance by a supremely confident yet self-effacing man, ever gracious in manner, polite in speech, but implacably stubborn. As Senator after Senator fired questions at him, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger coolly presented the Administration's case for the MX missile before the Armed Services Committee last week. Never once did Weinberger lose his temper or raise his voice. And no matter how heated the interrogation, Weinberger did not budge a millimeter from his position. "Once his mind is made up, he is impossible to bend," says a close associate at the Pentagon. "He is a gentle...
...rising over Washington when, promptly at 7 a.m. last Wednesday, Vice President George Bush convened a special high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room. National Security Adviser William Clark was there, along with CIA Chief William Casey, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Special Envoy Philip Habib, who had been hastily summoned home from his diplomatic shuttle in the Middle East. The purpose of the gathering: to find a way to break the impasse in negotiations to secure the withdrawal of Israeli,. Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organization troops from Lebanon. The mood was somber. "Everyone in the Administration...