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...report raised more questions than it answered and threatened to engulf Premier Golda Meir's shaky coalition government in yet another struggle for survival only a month after she had successfully patched up differences in her divided Labor Party. Also caught in the uproar was Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, who returned from negotiations on the Middle East in Washington to face fresh demands for his resignation-not because he was implicated by the report but because he was exonerated...
...commission laid complete blame for Israel's poor showing in the early days of the war on the military and exonerated Israel's political leadership-namely, Dayan and Mrs. Meir. Its harshest judgments were reserved for Lieut. General David Elazar, Israel's tough, professional Chief of Staff, and his top intelligence officers. It charged Elazar with "failure to make a real effort to reach his own assessment as a commander" and noted that "he even failed to tour the front lines during the tension in the last week before the war." Elazar's worst mistake...
...found any real fault with these findings. But the commission, which concluded that Mrs. Meir had "used her authority properly and wisely," also went on to state that it had seriously weighed the role of Defense Minister Dayan. It noted favorably that Dayan had toured the Golan Heights a week before the war and had called for reinforcements there. The commission concluded that "the Minister was not required to issue orders adding to or different from those proposed to him by the Chief of Staff and Chief of Intelligence...
...greatest effort. He brings them first to his high-ceilinged chamber in the Executive Office Building. It sets the tone with its elegant blue-gray walls, view of the White House, and medallions, statuettes and busts of Herschensohn's heroes: Nixon (several), Lincoln (two), Churchill, Washington, Moshe Dayan, Beethoven and a miniature Mt. Rushmore. If he can, Herschensohn takes his delegations first to the Cabinet Room. The moment is profound, rising to fortissimo on Nixon's blue and gold oval rug with the woven Presidential Seal...
Kissinger has a finely tuned sense of hierarchy and addresses those he deals with in subtly differing ways. When he meets Israeli leaders, for instance, Kissinger calls Golda Meir "Madame Prime Minister," while Dayan and Allon are always "Moshe" and "Yigal." Foreign Minister Abba Eban, by contrast, is simply "Eban." Explains one participant in their talks: "For Mrs. Meir he has high respect, with Dayan good rapport, with Allon comradeship. With Eban there is not much more than a colleague-to-colleague relationship, since Eban is the silent man on the team who does not have much to say." Although...