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...little interest when, after the resignation of Alexander Haig, the new Secretary of State-designate arrived in Washington and introduced himself. "My name is George Shultz. I'm from California." Something clicked...
...total Cabinet tilts, 8 to 5, east of the Mississippi River. Mike Deaver, who is Baker's deputy and a Californian, contends that the Reagan White House cannot be measured so much for its West Coast flavor as for the taste of Ronald Reagan. With the departure of Haig, those men closest to Reagan all have a special loyalty to him and fit his style...
...reached a postwar record of an estimated 9.5%. Both Mitterrand and Schmidt have repeatedly explained to Washington that Western Europe's defense capability is inextricably linked to its economic well-being and social stability. That view so far has failed to sway the White House, where aides blamed Haig for having misled the Western Europeans into thinking that Reagan had agreed to soften his opposition to the pipeline. In fact, when Reagan left Versailles, unhap py over the soft European stand on credit to the Soviet bloc, he still had not made up his mind whether to toughen...
...mounting transatlantic trade tensions over steel, agriculture and textiles, Reagan's pipeline decision confirmed suspicions within the Community that Washington, in pursuit of its goals, was riding roughshod over Western Europe's economies. Rightly or wrongly, Western European leaders had been led by Secretary of State Alexander Haig and other officials to believe that the U.S. was willing to soften its opposition to the pipeline in the interest of harmony, and specifically in exchange for a European agreement-feeble though it was-to tighten credit to the Soviet bloc...
...discussion never even got that far." With Haig out of the picture, the Administration was beginning to believe that the pipeIine could even be stopped. Said Lawrence Brady, Assistant Secretary of Commerce: "Certainly we can delay the pipeline, and we may bring the Europeans round to stopping it altogether...