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...beginning of the Administration, Reagan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger wanted to put bilateral disarmament efforts indefinitely on hold, while they tried to remedy what they saw as inequality in the strategic balance and the vulnerability of American forces-that is, arm in order to parley. Largely because of the freeze movement and public fears of nuclear war, the Administration began to look for ways that, in its view, would restore equality by means of arms control. In other words, arm and parley at the same time-a fairly traditional concept, one that has kept both SALT and the arms...
Says one Administration official: "Just consider all the people he has been in fights with recently: [Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Eugene] Rostow, [Secretary of Defense Caspar] Weinberger, [U.N. Ambassador Jeane] Kirkpatrick, [White House Chief of Staff James] Baker, [National Security Adviser William] Clark, [Secretary of the Treasury Donald] Regan. There is no way you can have everybody divorced from foreign policy questions except for the Secretary of State, as Haig tried...
...Secretary of State-designate is far less likely than his predecessor to clash with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Weinberger worked under Shultz at OMB and was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in Nixon's Cabinet when Shultz was at Treasury. After leaving Government in 1975, Weinberger followed Shultz to Bechtel and became general counsel and vice president of the firm. The two men are known to have worked together smoothly...
...contentiousness and personality were handicaps, he nevertheless fought a valiant fight against huge obstacles. A practical man with formidable experience in world affairs, he was up against a President and a White House staff with no similar background. Reagan and such influential Cabinet officials as Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, moreover, were ideologues who tended to heed rather than carefully consider the likely result of their actions. Without the wholehearted backing of a strong President who had a clear vision of America's global role, Haig's attempt to forge a consistent policy was doomed...
...Administration was split over how much pressure to put on Begin. Haig insisted that the best way to influence the Israelis was to work quietly behind the scenes. But Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Vice President George Bush argued that a business-as-usual attitude toward Israeli aggression would cost the U.S. even more credibility among the moderate Arab states, which, despite Administration efforts to dissuade them, were convinced that Israel had been given the implicit backing of Washington for the invasion...