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...relations with Haig: "There has been a lot of garbage written about [us], but the basis for it is just about nonexistent. I have enormous respect for Al Haig. I meet with him regularly once a week at breakfast. We are on the phone three or four times a week. It is a source of continual amusement and amazement, though it is sometimes too serious for that, how this persistent mythology is fanned and kept alive. I guess it makes good reading...
Next week's installment describes the growing cancer of Watergate; presents an insight into a tormented President who, always fearing catastrophe, ultimately brought it on himself; profiles Nixon's closest aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, as well as the current Secretary of State, Alexander Haig; and tells of the dramatic death throes of Nixon's Administration. The third and last excerpt covers the dual dilemmas of competition and coexistence with the Soviet Union; memorable Kissinger encounters with the leaders of America's principal adversaries, Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung; and some maxims culled from a career in statecraft...
...poorly, Moscow thought it could emerge, as in 1967, as the champion of the radical Arab cause and perhaps even get rid of Egypt's troublesome Sadat. There was no doubt in my mind about the geopolitical stakes. About 90 minutes after we learned of the fighting, I told Haig: "If the Soviets are all out on the other side, we have a mischievous case of collusion, and we had better then be tough as nails...
While I was engaged with the Agnew resignation, Dinitz informed Major General Brent Scowcroft, who had replaced Haig as my deputy, that Israel's promised replacement equipment exceeded the capacity of the seven jets of the El Al air fleet. It was decided that Israel should be permitted to employ private air charter companies. That turned out to be a fiasco. No charter company was eager to court an Arab boycott or to risk its planes. The Defense Department could have brought pressure on the charter companies, but felt no urgency because it estimated that Israel still had stocks...
...against additional U.S. military aid to EI Salvador, White was immediately relieved of his post by the Reagan Administration. To add insult to injury, after testifying candidly before a House subcommittee. White was "retired" from the Foreign Service at the request of an embarrassed Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig...