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...that move, even the most savvy officials could not believe their ears. A senior White House staff member who informed colleagues about the change just before Reagan publicly announced it encountered such incredulity that he had to insist, "I'm not joking, it's the truth." Legislative Aide Kenneth Duberstein, phoning Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker with the news, argued for three minutes before he could convince Baker that it was not an elaborate...
Reagan was amply rewarded for not standing on presidential prerogative. In the first place, he secured congressional backing for the MX missile. He is also able to present Moscow with a START proposal that enjoys strong bipartisan support. Said Kenneth Duberstein, the presidential assistant who helped to put the package together: "It gives a signal to the Soviets that we are united." Not least of all, Reagan may have been able to dispel his image as an inflexible hard-liner and defuse the arms-control issue before the 1984 elections. Said one of his senior advisers: "This is what...
...National Security Council, argued to the President that the anti-Soviet sentiments aroused would make it possible to pass the MX in the Senate without any concessions on build-down. He was supported by Rowny and Kenneth Adelman, the head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. But Duberstein kept the pressure on to continue to seek an accord with both groups in Congress...
...meeting that produced a winner's move. The day Congress rejected President Reagan's dense-pack basing proposal for the MX missile and withheld production funds for the weapon, Republican Senators William Cohen of Maine and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire huddled with White House Aide Kenneth Duberstein in a nocturnal conclave in Vice President Bush's Capitol Hill office to figure out what to do next. The Senators urged the Administration to appoint a high-powered bipartisan study commission. "The MX will never fly if it is a Republican missile," explained Cohen...
...Republican moderates. The payoff came last week: a 239-to-186 House vote-which was the big test-then a 59-to-39 Senate vote to release $625 million in MX flight-testing and development money. It was a resounding political victory for Reagan. Exclaimed the President to Duberstein: "Fantastic...