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...negotiated all night to get the Saudis to sign a communique supporting the much-heralded anti-Soviet consensus. Through perserverance, Weinberger won a remarkable concession: While the Saudis resisted signing the communique, they agreed that a Sultan would sit in at the press conference. How's that for prudent use of political capital...
...shelved his planned project, a biography of Truman after he left the presidency, in favor of this trove of letters, and his decision was a happy one. Strictly Personal and Confidential offers a unique look at a man reacting naturally to enormous pressures. Truman often had second, more prudent thoughts about what he called his "spasms." Sometimes he would scribble furiously and then stuff the result into his desk while he cooled off; on other occasions, he dictated blisterers to Rose Conway, his longtime personal secretary, and then returned the typescript with a diplomatic directive: "Rose, file it. H.S.T...
...great architects of conservatism, like Edmund Burke, envisioned their political philosophy as a kind of intellectual cathedral, resting on solid principles but being modified and enriched by later craftsmen. "All government," wrote Burke, "indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter." Many of the modern Presidents who have been hailed by Reagan shared that view. Dwight Eisenhower had an uncanny instinct for outrunning events and using them, hence his proposal for an international agency to guide peaceful development of atomic energy ("atoms for peace") and a scheme to open...
...mood of mounting concern, President Ronald Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative speech was the best news the Salvadoran government had received in weeks. Reagan's promises of long-term economic help for the entire Central American region, plus the warning that the U.S. will do "whatever is prudent and necessary to ensure the peace and security of the Caribbean area," noticeably buoyed President Duarte. The Salvadoran leader appeared on television to announce that he had sent his personal felicitaciones to the White House...
...some respects, Haldeman and Ehrlichman were rivals. On the whole, Ehrlichman sponsored or supported domestic policies that were humane and progressive. He favored reducing defense expenditures beyond a point I considered prudent so as to free resources for social programs; several times I appealed his interventions to Nixon. Ehrlichman was shaken by student protest following the Cambodian incursions. He had three teen-age children, and their travail touched him deeply. But Nixon's favor depended on one's readiness to fall in with the paranoid cult of the tough guy. The conspiracy of the press, the hostility...