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...else I should know about?" One of his assistants said that earlier in the day Gorbachev had made a new proposal on arms reduction but that the U.S. had not fully digested it. "What is it?" Bush snapped. "Find out." Aides scurried for information from National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. Bush tucked the new development away in his mind without comment, a kind of armor against questions that might arise in his upcoming press conference...
...Adams when a somber-suited CIA briefer with his bagful of woes pulls up beside Bush's desk. The cables from the secret operatives have grown distinctly more worrisome. By 7:30, when the angry traffic has built up on streets beyond the iron fence, Bush has heard from Scowcroft and chief of staff John Sununu. The President's own gleanings from his ceaseless phone calls and television viewing are cranked into the day's crisis agenda. Last week he glanced at the men around him, his principal national security staff, and said, "I saw on TV last night those...
...meeting, which lasted more than two hours. U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills argued vehemently that Bush should scrap the agreement in favor of persuading the Japanese to buy standard F-16s, minus the instructions for putting their most sensitive components together. On the other side, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker contended that the agreement should proceed unchanged. But the lack of a Defense Secretary to argue the Pentagon's side handicapped the pro-FSX forces. Covering the middle ground, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher thought he could abide the deal as long as the most...
According to the report of the three-man board (John Tower, Edmund Muskie and Brent Scowcroft), which interviewed Reagan twice, the President insisted "he did not know that the NSC staff was engaged in helping the contras" from 1984 to 1986, when Congress banned U.S. military assistance to the rebels. But North, a former NSC aide charged with lying to Congress about his efforts to keep the contras intact, hopes to persuade a jury in Washington that Reagan and other superiors fully approved his activities...
Just as important, he is an old friend of George Bush's -- a key asset in this presidency -- and has ties to two other Administration power centers. While serving as Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff in 1975 and '76, Cheney worked alongside Brent Scowcroft, then as now the National Security Adviser, as well as Bush's Secretary of State James Baker, who ran Ford's 1976 presidential campaign...