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...that, Haig usually managed to prevail on policy. Indeed, even his relations with the White House staff seemed to be improving early this year. The reason was Reagan's appointment of Clark as National Security Adviser to replace Richard Allen. Haig regarded Allen as a "guerrilla" who was sniping at him from the White House. Clark, a former California judge and longtime intimate of Reagan, had originally been brought into the Administration as No. 2 at the State Department, largely to serve as a trouble-shooter between Haig and the White House. He nonetheless worked amicably and effectively with...
...appointment soon turned out to have the exact opposite result. Clark, says one former Haig lieutenant, "is a man who has no fixed address. He will serve whichever boss he happens to be working for"-and Clark has worked for Reagan a lot longer than he did for Haig. He is convinced that Reagan must put his personal stamp on foreign policy rather than let his Secretary of State run the show. And he is turning into an exceptionally potent National Security Adviser, even though he had no foreign policy experience whatever before he came to Washington. Clark has unlimited...
Clark soon began clashing with Haig on policy issues. When Haig in April undertook his epic Washington-London-Buenos Aires shuttle in an effort to avert war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands, Clark thought that Haig had staked the Administration's prestige far too heavily on a mission that seemed likely to fail-as, of course, it did. After war broke out, Clark believed that Haig had persuaded Reagan to come out openly on Britain's side too quickly and completely...
...When Haig in Washington and Ambassador Kirkpatrick at the U.N. got into a furious telephone argument over policy toward the Falklands-Kirkpatrick urging more sympathy for Argentina-Haig wanted her fired. Clark instead got her an appointment at the White House on Memorial Day to state her views directly to Reagan. Though the President did not agree with those opinions, Haig was furious at this deference to a "company commander," as he once called Kirkpatrick, who in his judgment had been insubordinate...
...Even so, Haig continued to win on most of the substantive issues. As late as a month ago, at the Versailles summit conference of the non-Communist world's seven strongest industrial powers that opened Reagan's ten-day trip through Europe, Haig appeared to be in complete control of U.S. foreign policy. That appearance could not have been more misleading. It is now clear that for Haig the European trip generally, and Versailles specifically, marked the beginning...