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...turned out, the U.S. and the Soviet Union rejected the proposals. In fact, only a few weeks later, Nitze and his boss, Eugene Rostow, were rebuked by the White House for even exploring such a missile compromise with the Soviets. And when Rostow was fired earlier this month, he suggested a bit misleadingly that it was Nitze's abortive breakthrough last July that had clinched his downfall, and not his own sometimes imperious style. Yet Nitze remains, by every account, the most experienced, respected hawk in the defense Establishment...
...years after resigning as Pentagon representative on the SALT negotiating team because he feared the Watergate-obsessed Nixon Administration might concede too much, he and Rostow helped form the hard-line Committee on the Present Danger to lobby against the SALT II treaty and for bigger defense budgets. But he is not an unreasoning zealot. Indeed, even his critics, on the left and the right, admit Nitze's pragmatism and acute intellectual power...
Nitze would prefer the zero option, but given Soviet demands and souring NATO relations, he thought he had wrenched from Kvitsinsky an attractive deal. Back in Washington, Nitze and Rostow explained the proposal at a special meeting of Administration arms control principals, including National Security Adviser William Clark and Secretary of State George Shultz. The reaction there was mainly hopeful. Within days, Rostow's aides and the Joint Chiefs of Staff had finished a report on the plan for Reagan, who had just one comment: Could the Joint Chiefs live without the Pershing...
...Defense Caspar Weinberger, never reached the President. Instead, Weinberger had an aide, Richard Perle, paraphrase the Joint Chiefs' memo and graft it onto an elaborate Pentagon condemnation of the Nitze-Kvitsinsky plan. A month after the Swiss mountainside tête-à-tête, Nitze and Rostow were chastised by Clark in a memo to Shultz for exceeding their negotiating authority. Clark denies that the memo was a reprimand, but officials who have seen it insist otherwise...
...Right claimed Adelman's nomination as a victory. Senator Jesse Helms, who fought Eugene Rostow's moves toward flexibility, pronounced himself "very encouraged." But White House aides say that Adelman will take a moderate stance. Suggests one Administration insider: "Adelman can do three things Rostow couldn't. He will be able to get along with the Defense Department, the State Department and the White House...