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Hollings said he was positive the President had authorized the secret arms sales to Iran and the aid to the Contras and that Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 knew about it as well...
Durenberger said the committee will extend itshearing schedule beyond next week, and will soondecide which Cabinet officials to call to testify.He said those under consideration include themembers of the National Security Council--CIADirector William Casey, Secretary of State GeorgeP. Shultz and Weinberger--but not the president orVice President George Bush...
Having failed to persuade his boss in person, Shultz on Sunday turned to television. On the CBS program Face the Nation, the Secretary publicly advocated a halt to arms sales, but when asked if he had been authorized to speak for the Administration, he replied bluntly, "No." Asked if he had discussed resigning, Shultz responded with calculated ambiguity, "I serve at (the President's) pleasure, and anything that I have to say on that subject I just say to him." On Monday he increased the pressure, telling reporters after a speech in Chicago that even appearing to trade arms...
Boxed in, Reagan made the flat statement Shultz had wanted and accompanied it with a kind of come-home-all-is-forgiven message. The President denied that Shultz had ever discussed resigning with him. In fact, said Reagan, "he has made it plain that he will stay as long as I want him -- and I want him." Most probably Shultz never did make an explicit threat to resign -- but then he did not have to. The President could ill afford to have it said that his Iranian policy had driven his highly respected Secretary of State out of the Administration...
...Shultz's return to the fold, however, was balanced by a highly damaging defection. As National Security Adviser, Robert ("Bud") McFarlane had begun the secret diplomatic contacts with Iran, and pursued them on the President's behalf even after his resignation last December. In May he flew into Tehran on a secret mission -- nestling, he now admits, among crates of weapons. Yet McFarlane told the Washington Post in an interview published Thursday, "I think it was a mistake to introduce any element of arms transfers into it." Indeed, the Post account had him advising Reagan in a bedside conference...