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...surprise . . . placed, they thought, a greater reliance on the land-based missiles." That was no surprise at all to other members of his Administration, who knew that the land-based missiles make up a far greater proportion of the Soviet than of the U.S. nuclear-strike forces. Alexander Haig, who was Secretary of State at the time, has written that the U.S. proposals "would require such drastic reductions in the Soviet inventory as to suggest that they were unnegotiable." If Reagan really was taken aback by the Soviet response, that would raise questions about his understanding of basic nuclear facts...
...White House. The President prepared for his first encounter with high-level Soviet officialdom by reviewing thoroughly the numerous proposals made by the U.S. over the past ten months to get arms negotiations back on track, as well as memos from Shultz and former Secretary of State Alexander Haig on their previous conversations with Gromyko. As has been the case throughout his Administration, Reagan received conflicting advice from two ideologically opposed schools of influence around...
...determine how power is distributed across the Administration. It was Deaver, reinforced by Nancy Rea gan, who installed Baker as Chief of Staff. Later it was Deaver again, this time with Mrs. Reagan's delayed support, who worked on Reagan to get rid of Secretary of State Alexander Haig. It was also Deaver who had pushed for William Clark as National Security Adviser and then, realizing he had made a mistake, turned on him, once more with Nancy Reagan's approval. Today Clark will not speak to Deaver and acknowledges his greeting only when Reagan is present...
...calls old friends, like Florida Banker Bebe Rebozo, and even old foes, like former Senator George McGovern. Then he limousines to lunch and more politicking at some high-powered mid-Manhattan watering hole, often the "21" Club or Le Cirque, with such figures as Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig...
...Given Haig and Burt's goal of preserving some hope that an agreement might be negotiated, the State Department had achieved only a temporary and perhaps Pyrrhic victory over the Pentagon civilians...