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...deal together with the help of White House Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf and Budget Director David Stockman, who spent nearly all his time during the final week in Dole's three-room office suite. They put through a series of calls to Reagan's traveling party in Lisbon--White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan took most of them--informing the President's aides what was happening...
Weinberger's role in the end-game maneuvering seems to have been peripheral. The Secretary of Defense visited Dole's office at midweek to make a final, unavailing plea for a 3% military budget increase in excess of inflation. His final call or calls to Lisbon got no different result, and he left Washington for his summer home in Northeast Harbor, Me., before the Senate vote. White ) House aides say he did not speak directly with the President as the decision was being made. Weinberger took strong exception to those suggestions. "I had no problem reaching him," he said...
...Wednesday afternoon Stockman transmitted the numbers to Lisbon by electronic facsimile, and Dole, Domenici and Friedersdorf placed a this-or- nothing conference call to Regan. The chief of staff took the news to Reagan as he was dressing for dinner with the President of Portugal. "Is this the best deal we can get?" asked Reagan. His chief of staff replied that it was. Regan phoned Dole Thursday morning with the President's acceptance, and the last roundup of votes began. Four Republicans who could not accept the civilian spending reductions voted against the budget resolution. Dole won over only...
...give on military spending and had been following his often repeated theory of effective bargaining: ask for more than you can get and offer not even the slightest hint of concession until absolutely sure you have obtained the maximum. As the President himself put it to reporters in Lisbon, "I've always kind of believed in leaving a cushion there for dealing." Reagan's advisers observed, too, that the civilian spending cuts in the budget resolution further Reagan's objective of reducing the size and power of the Federal Government, an overriding goal. While all that is true, the definition...
...Portela Military Airport in Lisbon, the final stop on the Reagans' Euro- pean trip, they were greeted by President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. Portugal's leader is one of Reagan's biggest European boosters, and the crowd waved American flags and held up a banner reading WE LOVE REAGAN. At the Portuguese parliament, the President laughed off another Communist walkout ("I'm sorry that some of the chairs on the left seem to be uncomfortable") and hailed the host country's eleven-year-old democracy. Said Reagan: "It is the democratic world that is flexible, vibrant and growing --bringing its people...