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...potshots at the Pentagon sounded like standard Democratic liberalism. Slash the Administration's proposed defense budget. Forget about building the MX missile. Get all those bureaucratic bigwigs out from behind their desks at the Pentagon. Crack down on the piggishness of defense contractors. Broadsides they were, but not from some out-of-step lefty: they were the prescriptions of Arizona's Barry Goldwater, the prospective chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, eminence grise of old-fashioned conservative Republicanism and a major general in the Air Force Reserve...
...nearly every instance gave way to compromise and at least outward accommodation. This was true of attitudes toward the Soviet Union, arms control, Central America and the European allies, among others. The need to compromise was symbolized by the resort to bipartisan commissions (the Scowcroft panel on the MX missile, the Kissinger group on Central America) that did extremely useful work and produced sound, generally centrist recommendations, which by no reasonable standard could be described as weak. Despite recent, markedly pacific gestures from the Administration, it remains to be seen whether, in the second term, such centrist policies will prevail...
Fierce struggles are expected over controversial weapons systems. Early in the year, both chambers will vote twice on whether to produce 21 MX missiles. Although Congress has funded a first batch of 21 missiles, foes of the weapon believe that the MX program can be shut down before 1986 deployment if Congress balks this time. Congress may also refuse to build more B-l bombers beyond the 100 already paid for. Reagan's request for $1.7 billion in research funds for his Star Wars plan will encounter determined opposition on Capitol Hill. Congress has allowed testing of an antisatellite...
...also wanted to appeal to his liberal constituency. What we had from the Mondale side was a lot of facts, a lot of statements that were, internally, madly contradictory. He would not give away the technology of the space defense system, but he wouldn't build it. The MX will draw fire, but why not the Minuteman? To call the arms race madness implies that it was largely in our control...
...philosophical one, and the President summed it up in a phrase, "Should we conduct policy from weakness?" That's too simple a way of putting it, but that is the essential point-whether one can negotiate better by making a series of unilateral moves, like giving up the MX, Bl, Strategic Defense Initiative [Star Wars], or whether one can negotiate better by continuing whatever programs are considered in the national interest until there is some equitable settlement...