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...August, National Security Adviser Clark convened a special meeting of top officials: the new Secretary of State, George Shultz, Arms Control and Disarmament Director Rostow, Defense Secretary Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey and General John W Vessey Jr., the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Each of these men brought one aide. Absent, however, were the two officials who had been most influential in formulating arms-control policy: Perle and Burt. Perle was combining a vacation with a stay at the Aspen Institute arms-control workshop in Colorado. Burt, who had been nominated to replace Eagleburger as Assistant Secretary of State...
...quoted, for example, a remark made by Reagan's first director Eugene Rostow at his Senate confirmation hearings. Rostow he recalled, said that Japan "not only survived but flourished" after two bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...brief Kennedy Administration was his passage from a sometimes indiscriminate anti-Communist hard line to a deepening awareness of the real dangers of nuclear war. It did not help Kennedy in this passage that he assembled a staff of war-hawk anti-Communist intellectuals (McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow and Robert McNamara, for example) who were brilliantly nimble and self-confident and often disastrously wrong about what counted most. They could be overbearing men, and curiously disconnected from the realities of American life. Once, after Vice President Johnson talked wonderingly of all the brilliant characters Kennedy had brought into the White...
...since then, Shultz's authority has been oozing away. The Middle East plan fizzled. Then Clark, with hardly a word to the State Department, decided to fire Arms Control Director Eugene Rostow and replace him with Kenneth Adelman, a young hard-liner whose slender credentials caused an uproar on Capitol Hill. Two weeks ago, State Department Loyalist Philip Habib was replaced as Middle East envoy by Robert McFarlane, Clark's deputy at the National Security Council. Although he will report to Shultz, McFarlane, in a convoluted arrangement, will remain an assistant to Clark. In both cases, the White...
...responsible for the misguided embargoes against West European suppliers of parts for the Soviets' natural gas pipeline. Clark urged Reagan to stick to an unrealistically hard line in defending the size of this year's defense budget increase. He also sponsored Kenneth Adelman to be Eugene Rostow's successor as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, despite Adelman's unfamiliarity with arms control issues. Last spring Clark encouraged Reagan to go ahead with his curious star wars missile-defense speech despite the cautions of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Shultz...