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...July 5, all the pieces were falling into place. I believed that by July 9, four days hence, the P.L.O. withdrawal could commence and the conditions for peace in Lebanon would have been established. At that moment, George Shultz, my nominated successor, who was with the President in California, called to discuss "future arrangements." He said he wanted me to become a "consultant." I told Shultz that I was prepared to step aside whenever the President wanted, but I could not accept the role he was describing...
...Shultz said he took his hat off to me-a great deal had been accomplished in the past week. About an hour later, he phoned again. The President had decided that I should leave. My resignation was accepted, effective immediately. Shultz had been given an uncomfortable duty, one that I had performed myself for other Presidents, and I sympathized. But in the circumstances, with this message coming when we were on the verge of achieving peace in Lebanon, I felt that I must hear the words from the President himself. I could not abandon the negotiations on lesser authority...
...dining room. At 9:45, a messenger summoned me to the telephone. The President was calling. I took the call in an empty room off the lobby. The strains of orchestra music floated in from the dining room. Reagan's voice was warm, his manner affable. "Al, George Shultz tells me he's had a discussion with you," Reagan said. "I just wanted to tell you that what he told you had my approval." The entire conversation lasted for less than one minute. The two of us said goodbye and I went in and finished my dinner...
...once: against his colleagues in the Administration and against the Soviet Union and its clients in the Third World. In the end, Haig was defeated in the intramural struggle and frustrated in the global one. He lost Reagan's confidence and support, and he left his successor, George Shultz, with a daunting agenda of unfinished business. In the eyes of his critics, Haig's defeat was self-inflicted: the soldier in him got the better of the statesman; he did not know when to stop fighting and seek conciliation; he was too obsessed with his enemies, however real; he spent...
...George Shultz, who was eminently qualified to be Secretary of State, was still regarded as the leading contender. His colleague at the Bechtel Group in California, Caspar ("Cap") Weinberger, who, like Shultz, had a personal relationship with Reagan, had also been mentioned. I began to take seriously the rumors with respect to myself when the familiar baritone of Richard Nixon came down the line one day to say that Reagan had decided to ask me to be his Secretary of State. In matters Republican, Nixon usually knows what he is talking about...