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Still, there are some damaging gaps. The State Department on some occasions has failed to mesh with National Security Adviser Richard Allen, who is supposed to coordinate the foreign policy advice reaching the President. Allen, however, lacks the easy access of his predecessors; he reports to Reagan through Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. Some Administration insiders worry that Reagan is not getting the detailed analyses of foreign policy problems and options that would normally come from a strong National Security Adviser. That is an especially serious burden for a President who lacks expertise in foreign affairs...
Some sympathetic White House aides say that Allen, who reports to the President mainly through Counsellor Edwin Meese, is now being unfairly cast as a scapegoat. Most insiders, however, feel that he has managed to make a difficult situation worse by his inept efforts on the Hill. "He had neither the clout nor the brains to pull it off," said one Senate aide...
...Reporters pressed him during a brief photo session about where he would find money for the military. Said he: "Well, we sure can't go to Brazil." White House aides were quick to emphasize that no strategic policy or weapon would be rejected solely because of cost. Said Counsellor to the President Edwin Meese III: "The President is not going to say, 'This system is necessary but we can't afford it.' " But in the running battle between those aides who see the Reagan mandate as economic recovery and those who see it as military superiority...
...also its most basic: build more prisons. The task force recommends that Washington pay 75% of construction costs over the next four years -some $2 billion-with the states anteing up the rest. Yet the budget-cutting Reaganauts are reluctant to lay out the money; as White House Counsellor Edwin Meese puts it, major funding for any crime-fighting proposals is "very unlikely." Counters Bell: "It's peanuts compared with what the Department of Defense spends...
...director for operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Lieut. General Philip Gast, called General David Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. The Defense Secretary in turn alerted other key Administration officials, including National Security Adviser Richard Allen and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese III. Allen and Meese, who were in Los Angeles with President Ronald Reagan, received the news at 11 p.m. local time, but decided that there was no need at the moment to waken the President. The two aides monitored the news for the next 5½ hours before...