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...send a strong signal of support to both Egypt and its beleaguered neighbor, the Sudan, which is threatened by the presence of 7,000 Libyan troops in nearby Chad. After conferring in Cairo with Mubarak and Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri following Sadat's funeral, Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the U.S. would speed up the delivery of arms already promised to Egypt and the Sudan. In addition, Washington last week dispatched two AW ACS planes from the U.S. to Egypt both to symbolize U.S. commitment and to improve that country's air surveillance of Libya. Finally...
...Force dispatched two Jet-Stars and a C-9 transport to gather the Presidents. Joe Canzeri, the White House's wizard on transportation arrangements, began a frantic 48 hours of orchestration. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was official leader of the party, so he got the "Presidential Suite" on board 26000 ("The diplomatic way out," joked Haig). Irony flashed through the minds of the arrangers. Two cabins behind Haig would ride Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for whom Haig had worked as a lesser aide. Such is the span of fleeting power...
First behind Haig's suite came the lounge assigned to staff. The Presidents came next in a cabin with two tables. Nixon and Ford were placed side by side facing Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. On the other side of the aisle were the Carters and Mr. and Mrs. Ashraf Ghorbal. Egypt's wise Ambassador to the U.S. was heading home on the most somber journey he had ever undertaken. In other seats were military and diplomatic dignitaries, Senators and Congressmen and a three-man press pool...
...point, Al Haig came back and quietly sought out Kissinger. Just as he boarded the plane, Haig explained, he had been handed cables from the U.S. embassy in Jidda, wondering about giving a dinner for Nixon. My God, asked Haig, was Nixon going to Saudi Arabia? By this time, White House Aide Mike Deaver was calling 26000 with the same question. Kissinger agreed to ask discreetly what was going on. Ever the conspirator, Nixon threw his hands in the air. He was not sure, he claimed. He had invitations to visit several nations in the Middle East. Whether the Saudis...
...probably the kind of guy you wouldn't mind going fishing with for a weekend," he laughs. McGovern believes that Reagan himself probably makes very little of his own policy, merely acting as a spokesman for business interests and leaving more sophisticated policy-making to people like Alexander Haig and Caspar W. Weinberger '38. McGovern takes particular issue with Reagan's defense budget and claims "at least 30" senators agree with him. But he says the 30 are unwilling or unable to speak out. Among them, McGovern says, is his "good friend" Barry Goldwater...