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Clark began taking hold while the Reagan entourage spent the New Year's holiday in Palm Springs, Calif. As the President made his final decision to replace Allen and upgrade the job. Clark immediately started a series of conversations with Haig and Weinberger. The new arrangement could only work, he told them, if they put aside thier contentious ways...
...test of comity took place before Reagan's press conference on Jan 19. Clark proposed that Haig and Weinberger brief the President jointly. Some White House staffers feared that the session would turn into a tense debate that would only confuse matters. Instead, the Cabinet Secretaries performed in harmony. At a later meeting, in preparation for last week's visit of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Vice President George Bush murmurred approvingly to Clark: "Your clients are behaving amazingly well these days...
...foreign affairs - but because of his intimate relationship with Reagan. In 1967 Clark was promoted from Cabinet Secretary to Governor Reagan's chief of staff. He served with such dispassionate efficiency that Reagan has trusted him ever since. Last year Clark reluctantly agreed to go to Washington as Haig's deputy. He got off to a painful start when his Senate confirmation hearings demonstrated his unfamiliarity with foreign issues...
Though Clark had been pressed upon Haig by the Reagan circle, the two developed a solid relationship. Haig, while ever anxious to protect his own turf, has even shown some deference to his recent subordinate. Officials calling on Clark get an instant reminder of why such protocol is prudent. The first ornament striking a visitor's eye is a large photograph dating from 1968 of three smiling men on horseback: Clark, his father and Ronald Reagan...
Clark has so far been reticent about pushing his own positions on specific is sues, or even revealing them. Those who know him consider him an instinctive hawk. Eventually, as he gains confidence, he is likely to reinforce Reagan's own hard-line feelings. If that happens, Haig, who is more flexible, will be less eager to applaud the new master of the West Wing