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When Clark finally called her to tell of his move, Kirkpatrick urged him to reconsider. She feared there would be no one left in the Administration with clout enough to pull together American policy around the globe. Secretary of State George Shultz, she felt, was too absorbed in international economic policy, East-West issues and crisis management in the Middle East to develop strategy elsewhere. Until now, she and her hard-line allies, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William Casey, had been able to fill the gap, but only because Clark listened to them-and Reagan listened...
...offered to give up her U.N. post and come to Washington as his deputy. He had turned the suggestion aside, adding that she might become National Security Adviser if he ever quit. Just before she left for Central America, Clark confided that he was tired of the disagreements with Shultz. The NSC job was taxing his health, and he wanted her to succeed him. But she filed these conversations away as idle speculations...
...strongest opposition to Kirkpatrick came from Shultz. He implied to a few associates that he would resign if she got the NSC post, and that word was passed to the White House. But the question in the minds of the White House staff soon became not whether Kirkpatrick would get the job, but how to assuage her disappointment about her loss to McFarlane and the decline of her influence now that Clark was gone...
...becoming the Deputy National Security Adviser, taking over the Agency for International Development, or coming into the White House as a Presidential Counsellor, a title now held only by Edwin Meese. She quickly rejected these options, feeling that without a base of power she would be easily bypassed by Shultz and McFarlane...
Once freed, Fischer caught up with the presidential foursome, which included Secretary of State George Shultz, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and former New Jersey Senator Nicholas Brady. Fischer briefed Reagan, who decided to telephone the gunman through the Secret Service radiotelephone link. When Harris kept refusing to say a word to Reagan on the telephone, the President's security aides urged him to get into a heavily guarded limousine. Ten agents followed his limo in an open car, brandishing Uzi submachine guns. The caravan returned the President to Eisenhower Cabin, a white-columned six-bedroom house from which...