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...conference started with shrill accusations that the Administration had "rigged" committee assignments to affirm President Reagan's views. Worried about the growing backlash against the White House, President Reagan made an unscheduled appearance to dispel doubts that he was "somehow an enemy of my own generation." The conclave ended Thursday with shouts of protest as 2,266 delegates were compelled to approve or reject a package of 600 often contradictory resolutions with a single yes or no vote...
Visibly enjoying the worldwide attention he was receiving, Schmidt described his role as that of an "interpreter" of U.S. policy. To dispel any doubts about his loyalty to the Western alliance, he was meticulous in keeping Washington informed. Both before Brezhnev's arrival and after his departure, he phoned Reagan with progress reports...
...leaders were eager for a signal that he was seriously committed to the "two-track" decision reached by NATO in 1979, which linked the stationing of new nuclear weapons in Europe to a renewed effort by the U.S. to negotiate realistic arms limits with the Soviets. The President helped dispel some of those doubts. In Bonn, where Brezhnev was scheduled to start a four-day visit on Sunday, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had just concluded talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "Reagan has set forth a comprehensive concept for the stabilization of peace," said Schmidt. Added Thatcher: "It will receive...
...This is not an Administration that is unraveling." So insisted White House Communications Director David Gergen last week, trying to dispel a sprouting impression in Washington that what he was denying might well be true. But if not unraveled, the White House was at least beleaguered. Just as the Administration was stamping out the flames from Budget Director David Stockman's disparaging comments on Reaganomics in the Atlantic Monthly, it found itself plagued by a scandal of much greater dimensions. The problem seemed at first to be a penny-ante one: National Security Adviser Richard Allen's acceptance...
Stockman said he told the president he has "one purpose... and that is to dispel any notion" that he doesn't have faith in the Reagan Administration's economic policies...