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...Fred Fielding reviewed the proposal, which was recommended by the Treasury and Justice Departments. Meese did not submit it to any of the Cabinet councils, which are designed to let Cabinet members and top staffers consider the consequences of pending proposals, nor did he mention it to the only high-level black presidential aide, Melvin Bradley of the Office of Policy Development...
Given the risks, Haig concluded that the gamble of high-level diplomacy must be undertaken immediately, although he recognizes that failure would worsen the problem markedly. But he felt, as an aide put it, that he had "a reasonable shot" at succeeding. Haig saw last week's trip as a chance to prepare the groundwork for serious bargaining by immersing himself for the first time in the complex mixture of history, prejudice, aspirations and paranoia that governs Middle Eastern diplomacy...
...crackdown in Poland also influenced two long-debated U.S. foreign policy decisions. Reagan last week approved a high-level mission to Peking that will present the Chinese with an intriguing offer: U.S. agreement not to sell Taiwan a line of sophisticated fighter planes, in exchange for Peking's condemnation of the Soviet role in Poland (see following story). Reagan also decided to continue draft registration for 18-year-old males. President Carter ordered the resumption of registration in 1980 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a move that was roundly denounced by Candidate Reagan. At the time, Reagan insisted...
Ehrlichman, a convicted Watergate coconspirator, took meticulous notes on White House and other high-level meetings. His account includes devastating characterizations of many of the people around Nixon. Burger had "aggrandizing tendencies" and wanted to give an annual "State of Justice" address to Congress, Ehrlichman writes, with prime-time television coverage similar to that of the President's State of the Union speech. Vice President Spiro Agnew, in Ehrlichman's view, "wasn't too bright." Gerald Ford "had achieved his maximum potential in the Congress. When he became President, he exceeded it obviously...
...policy planks of his election campaign: Greek withdrawal from NATO and the removal of U.S. military bases from Greece. He indicated that Greece might ultimately withdraw from the military wing of NATO, but he left it unclear whether this was his firm intention or merely a suggestion. Said one high-level NATO aide in Brussels: "I believe Papandreou will negotiate. He knows quite well that Greece would have less influence if it moves out of NATO and Turkey would have more...