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When Reagan on Thursday morning held a White House meeting with congressional leaders to appeal for bipartisanship on such foreign policy issues as funding for the MX missile and Central America, Wright could not resist complaining directly to Reagan: "You can't have it both ways. We in Congress can't be expected to be supporters one day and whipping boys the next." With a smile, Reagan told Wright that he had heard his "alibi artist" dig, and added, "I think I've got a couple more cracks coming myself...
Last week, praising what he called a "bipartisan consensus" on Capitol Hill over the arms control issue, the President hailed the House Appropriations Committee's vote to release $625 million in funding for the controversial MX missile, in return for presidential acceptance of arms control measures contained in the Administration's own Scowcroft report...
...area where the Harvard scholars could not agree was on support for the MX. Instead, as they do in other instances, they included in the book all of their differ ing points of view on the topic. Says one of the Harvard authors: "It was important to tell the public why reasonable people can disagree." - By George Russell...
When Congress last year killed the dense pack basing plan for the MX, the 96-ton ten-warhead missile seemed permanently grounded. Then the blue-ribbon Scowcroft Commission recommended last month that the U.S. develop a smaller, possibly mobile, single-warhead Midgetman missile. In the meantime, the commission suggested, the U.S. should demonstrate its political will by placing 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos, even though these sites might be vulnerable to attack. Key members of Congress wanted the Midgetman, as well as a more flexible approach to arms control. President Reagan wanted the MX and was willing...
...revival of the MX was shrewdly engineered by the President. Reagan lobbied hard in public, declaring on a political foray into Ohio that "if Congress rejects these [Scowcroft] proposals, it will have dealt a blow to our national security that no foreign power would ever have been able to accomplish." Then he met privately with legislators who remained skeptical about the MX. He also sent accommodating notes to lawmakers who had asked for changes in the Administration's negotiating position in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the Soviet Union, which are scheduled to resume in Geneva on June...