Word: haig
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...help in setting a consistent foreign policy line, and that is where the leadership must come from in the end. William P. Clark, who replaced the inept Richard Allen as Reagan's National Security Adviser in January, is too new in his job to enforce coordination between Haig and Weinberger, let alone advance any strong ideas of his own. Moreover, Reagan's other top aides appear almost as uncomfortable with foreign policy issues as the President does. Too often they see these issues in domestic political terms-namely, how a decision will either enhance or detract from...
...pain in the ass," is how Secretary of State Alexander Haig raged about leaks, at a private meeting of his staff last June...
...recorded by the anonymous notetaker, the private Haig is, well, candid in commenting about some of the people he deals with. On former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's penchant for shuttle diplomacy: "I didn't go over [to the Middle East] to pull a rabbit out of the hat a la Kissinger. This Secretary of State is not putting on Kissinger's fedora." On Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington's reluctance to commit Britain to participation in a peace-keeping force for the Sinai: "Duplicitous bastard. European friends -just plain cowardly. British, lying through their teeth...
Luckily for Haig's standing with the White House, his one published comment on Ronald Reagan is a testament to his boss's persuasive powers in "one-on-ones...
...Haig in private was often more pessimistic about world problems than in public. He warned his staff in January that once Israel returns the rest of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt in April, "Egypt will go back into [the] Arab world, with [the] U.S. isolated as Israel's sole defender." Egypt's position, he said, is "180° different" under Hosni Mubarak than it had been under slain President Anwar Sadat...