Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disputes within his own Administration about what position the U.S. should take on arms control. The real danger to a fair agreement is not a Nixon sellout but the fact that the Administration might make a mistake because of poor preparation. The Pentagon is at odds with the softer position of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Kissinger is trying to reconcile them...
...gave up too much and failed to anticipate Russia's growing technological sophistication (see page 25). "In the interim agreement (SALT I), we agreed to inferior numbers, but the Soviets did not agree to inferior technology," says Senator Jackson, echoing the concerns of Defense Secretary Schlesinger and the Pentagon...
...help, the Kalbs say, he did not want to offend the Arabs or the Russians, and he spent the rest of the week in a sometimes delicate, often brutal balancing act in Washington while the fighting proceeded. Kissinger is depicted as constantly goading Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and the Pentagon to arrange to send supplies to Israel and implying to Dinitz that he was fighting Israel's battles in the U.S. bureaucracy...
...drop in the bucket.'" When Dinitz called Kissinger to complain, the Kalbs report, "the Secretary seemed surprised and angry. Kissinger immediately called Schlesinger and, in the President's name, instructed him to arrange for the charter of 20 civilian transport planes. Schlesinger said the Pentagon had tried to hire civilian charters but failed. Most [airline] companies, he explained, did not want to get involved in the Middle East war. In that case, Kissinger snapped, get military planes, and get them quickly." Schlesinger disputes major points in this version of events (see box previous page...
...sometimes a Kissinger briefing edges closer to what is known in White House parlance as "stroking." During the Viet Nam War, for example, Kissinger would tell Hawkish Columnist Joseph Alsop that the North Vietnamese understood only force, and Eastern Liberal James Reston that he was straining to keep the Pentagon hawks at bay. Aboard his Air Force 707 on an early round of his Middle East peace shuttle, Kissinger would shuffle to the press cabin in the rear to tell the 14 reporters in his entourage that ALSTEAD the negotiations were, on successive days, 75%, 90% and nearly 100% completed...