Word: haig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end Reagan's advisers were professing private optimism that Haig could work out something to avert or at least delay an armed clash. But the President confined his own comments to asserting limply that "we are friends of both sides in this." Reagan was trapped between the U.S. reliance on Britain as its staunchest supporter and his strategy of wooing Latin American states that take a strong anti-Communist line. In addition, his prestige suffered when he could not persuade the Argentines to call off their invasion of the Falklands...
...fanned last week by a proposal from four former senior Government officials that the U.S. pledge never to be the first to use nuclear weapons. Reagan ducked a question on the subject at a meeting with reporters early in the week and left his Administration's reply to Haig, who contended in a midweek speech that any such no-first-use pledge would leave Western Europe open to invasion by superior Soviet conventional forces. The President did address the problem by proposing that both he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev speak at a United Nations disarmament conference...
...long-range VIP missions, two were ferrying Ronald Reagan's party around the Caribbean; one was hauling junketing Congressmen to the Middle East and Africa; one was slated to take other Congressmen and their wives to the Caribbean area, and the fifth was down for repairs. So Haig was assigned to a back-up C-135B, a converted tanker plane with no windows...
...Haig was ready to board this flying cigar tube when the Congressmen's 707 developed engine trouble and they switched to a smaller DC 9. Haig then decided to wait 14 hours for an engine change on the 707, which he finally boarded at 3 a.m. Said an aide: "After all, the British fleet was not going to get to the Falklands by morning...
There is no handbook on presidential crisis management at times like these. Ronald Reagan has told his staff members to keep searching for a budget compromise. He assembled the National Security Council in the Cabinet Room last Wednesday and approved Haig's peace mission to London and Buenos Aires...