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...Shultz's staying power seems to be his ability to divine Reagan's true wishes on a given issue. Says Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "I'm not certain who convinces whom. As you listen to Shultz, he makes you believe the President convinces him." The key to his clout, however, is more subtle: he has transformed Reagan's strong yet less-focused instincts into policies and actions. It is a skill that he learned on the job. When he was summoned to Foggy Bottom, he did not know Reagan well. But he began meeting privately...
...Today Shultz sees Reagan alone several times a week, for up to an hour at a stretch, frequently without any agenda. The Secretary sounds out Reagan on all manner of foreign questions and mulls over a variety of policy options, "thinking out loud with the President," as one Shultz aide puts it. Shultz's own self-effacing description, in an interview with TIME last week: "I try to give him my best advice and recommendations . . . but the President gives the leadership, and we try to work together on it. I will claim only to have been involved." Only once...
...Shultz's rapport with the President has grown, his rivals for foreign policy primacy have been retired one by one from the inner circle. U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Clark, a California crony of Reagan's who was National Security Adviser and supposedly the strong man of foreign policy when Shultz took office, have left the Government. Clark's successor, Robert McFarlane, took a front-and-center role in articulating policy for a while before Reagan's November summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, but soon afterward he too resigned...
...another intimate of Reagan's from California days. Weinberger's energy has been drained by a rearguard action against deep cuts in the military budget, and to his considerable displeasure, he was not invited to the Geneva summit. But he is still a formidable adversary whose professional disagreements with Shultz have been sharpened by personal strains. Perhaps 90% of the foreign policy disputes that appear in the newspapers are arguments between Shultz and Weinberger. A colleague of both has lost count of the number of meetings with Reagan at which Shultz has declared: "As always, Mr. President, I disagree with...
Their most public disagreement concerns terrorism. For more than two years now, Shultz has favored retaliatory, even pre-emptive, strikes against terrorists--even if their complicity in specific incidents cannot be conclusively proved and even if some innocent people might be killed. Associates say his advocacy is driven by both policy conviction and personal agony. A Marine officer in World War II, Shultz was devastated by the October 1983 suicide bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 U.S. servicemen...