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...good standing of the Establishment, and five even attended that citadel of Eastern elitism, Harvard: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Attorney General William French Smith, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, Management and Budget Director David Stockman. A few have had Washington experience: Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Weinberger, Kirkpatrick and Watt. Others are outsiders: Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, Block and Edwards. The Cabinet is also divided between managers such as Regan and Weinberger and conceptualizers like Kirkpatrick and Stockman, who can be counted on for new, and maybe arresting, ideas...
...last week's appointments, the most important is Allen, though he insists that he wants to be the least conspicuous of all. On the day Haig was announced as Secretary of State, Allen declared: "Take a good look at me because I am about to submerge." He agreed with Reagan that his appointment should not be announced publicly for a week so that it would be unmistakably clear who would run foreign policy: the Secretary of State. Earlier, Allen was one of the advisers who recommended a more subordinate role for the National Security Adviser. "The NSC," Allen says...
...Haig stall Jaworski? Cox's successor, Leon Jaworski, portrays Haig as a tough but ethical adversary in the ex-prosecutor's post-Watergate book, The Right and the Power, and now contends that Haig merely "had to do what Nixon told him to do and this is what he did." But former associates of Jaworski recall that his attitude was far different during the investigation. Insists one: "Jaworski used to rant and rave aplenty about Al Haig." When Jaworski threatened to protest publicly the White's House stalling over delivery of tapes, Haig pleaded for more time...
...Haig defend the validity of the tapes? Haig's original claims that there had been no tampering with the tapes was, at the least, overzealous. When the Washington Post reported that two of the tapes might have been re-recordings rather than originals, he charged that this was "blasphemous speculation." Later Haig told Jaworski, "I haven't the slightest doubt that the tapes were screwed with...
...Haig improperly ask Ford to pardon Nixon? Haig, in a meeting with Vice President Gerald Ford on Aug. 1, 1974, advised Ford that he would have the power to pardon Nixon for any Watergate crimes after Nixon left office. Both men say this was cited as merely one of several options open to Ford and that Haig did not urge it. Both also insist that no deal was struck under which Nixon would resign only if he were assured of getting a pardon from Ford...