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...Shultz's main adversaries in what he called a "battle royal" were the late Director of Central Intelligence William Casey and former National Security Adviser John Poindexter. They had helped spawn the ill-fated bargaining with Iran, and when it became public, Shultz charged, they continued to mislead Reagan and tried to use the Great Communicator's skills to "bail them out" of their folly...
Casey, it was disclosed at the hearings, had even written Reagan when the furor erupted last November to ask that he fire Shultz. Recounted the Secretary: "Everybody was saying I'm disloyal to the President . . . I could see people were calling for me to resign . . . I was the one who was loyal to the President because I was the one who was trying to get him the facts so he could make a decision...
...blunt testimony seemed to mesmerize the committee. After Oliver North's flag-waving and Poindexter's tale of keeping Reagan ignorant of the diversion of arms profits to the contras, Shultz's dead-earnest presentation carried a clearer ring of credibility. His memory on key points seemed to be sharper than the highly selective recollections of North and Poindexter. Among a number of legislators commending Shultz, Republican Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire told him, "The real heroes are people who speak up to their President, make their views known, and are willing to take great personal risks in confronting...
...describing the bungled attempts by the NSC staff, using private citizens in amateurish bargaining to develop a dialogue with Iran and get American hostages released by selling arms to that outlaw nation, Shultz made no effort to conceal his scorn. "Our guys . . . got taken to the cleaners," he said. ". . . It's pathetic that anybody would agree to anything like that. It's so lopsided. It's crazy." At one point he was shown a chart found in North's office safe, outlining a way of using arms-sales profits to set up a privately controlled fund for covert operations. Disdainfully...
...Shultz, who has served four Republican Presidents and headed part-time task forces for two Democratic Presidents, defended Reagan as a "very strong and decisive person" whose "judgment is excellent when he's given the right information." He told of trying to persuade Reagan that "when you get down into the dirt of the operational details," the Iran initiative had become simply a trade for hostages. "You're telling me things that I don't know," the President said to him. Replied Shultz: "Well, Mr. President, I don't know very much, but if I'm telling you things that...