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...easy relationship between Shultz and President Reagan has boosted morale at the State Department and eased tensions with the White House staff. Alexander Haig, Shultz's predecessor, was convinced that Reagan aides in the West Wing often engaged in a "guerrilla war" against him, but the antagonisms have disappeared under the new Secretary...
...temperament Shultz is the exact opposite of Haig. Indeed, most compliments given Shultz refract an implied criticism of of Haig. Haig. "Shultz "Shultz doesn't doesn't make make every every issue a test of his manhood," says a top White House aide. Whereas the former four-star general was flamboyant, emo tional and highly charged, Shultz, a com bat captain in the Marines who became an academic, is calm, collegial and reflective. His stolid demeanor seems more suited to absorb the bureaucratic shocks than Haig's thin skin. Says a senior State Department official: "Haig...
...addition, notes Helmut Sonnenfeldt, another former Kissinger aide, "he does not engage in jurisdictional disputes. Authority just flows his way." At a recent Cabinet meeting he praised Commerce Sec retary Malcolm Baldrige for trying to resolve a European trade problem. Says a National Security Council staffer: "Haig would have worried that Baldrige was treading on his turf...
...notable move was reaffirming the choice of Richard Burt, an able but abrasive Haig loyalist, as Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. Burt's nomination had been held up because, Like Haig, he had irritated the White House staff. Says an Administration insider: "Shultz would have appeared intimidated by the White House if he had dumped Burt...
...outset of the crisis, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig felt that Israel's invasion gave the unprecedented leverage with both the P.L.O. and moderate Arab nations. If the P.L.O. could be crippled as a military power, he reasoned, Saudi Arabia and Jordan might feel less inhibited in joining Egypt in the Camp David peace process. These heady ideas soon disappeared. Instead of seeking a general settlement of the Palestinian problem, Habib had to concentrate all ot his efforts on working out an evacuation plan for the trapped P.L.O...