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...Administration's steely Latin policy has primarily been the doing of Clark and Kirkpatrick. Now the clout of both is diminished. No liberal conspiracy has subverted President Reagan, but the Administration's moderates have indeed moved toward control of foreign policymaking. True, Weinberger, an unswerving hawk and Reagan intimate, remains feisty and powerful. But Clark will not be lumbering into the Oval Office every day, instinctively pushing Cap's and Kirkpatrick's schemes. The flow of ideas into the White House under McFarlane, a cool technocrat, will surely be more orderly, and perhaps more balanced...
...Kirkpatrick suspects she was done in by her friends
...Clark's top deputy, Robert McFarlane, a seasoned and pragmatic professional in national security affairs. But as always when a powerful post is up for grabs, there were other contenders. Officials who feared that "Bud" McFarlane would not be a forceful advocate for hard-line views vigorously promoted Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan's intellectual, ideological and sometimes abrasive Ambassador to the United Nations...
Pondering the matter over the weekend at Camp David, Reagan reached his decision. He told aides that he planned to appoint McFarlane. But he intended to delay the formal announcement until early this week, giving him time to confer with Kirkpatrick, who is known to be weary with her U.N. job. The President was set to offer her a post in Washington, possibly a newly created one, in which she would have ready access to the Oval Office and the opportunity to advise on a wide range of foreign policy questions...
...Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, 56, was the only serious alternative candidate. A former political science professor at Georgetown University, she was a longtime Democratic activist. Like her fellow neoconservatives, however, she was repelled by the dovish drift of the Democratic Party, which occurred as she was turning more resolutely antiCommunist. As a Reagan pet, she has had an unsual degree of influence in shaping policy. But as a prospective National Security Adviser, she had obvious drawbacks. In dealings with colleagues as well as adversaries, Kirkpatrick tends to be everything McFarlane is not: high-strung, argumentative, ideological, organizationally disheveled, and candid...