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...George Shultz, a proud man with a strong sense of what is proper, it was a painful task. Before a national television audience, the Secretary of State described how he and his department had been humiliated, betrayed and ignored, cut out of some of the Reagan Administration's most crucial foreign policy decisions. For the U.S. as well, the witness Shultz bore was painful. His blunt description of "guerrilla warfare" within the Administration, his public denunciation of the way things were run and his refusal to tone down his criticism would have been extraordinary coming from a junior bureaucrat. Coming...
During his two days of testimony, with no lawyer whispering in his ear and no litany of don't-recalls, the Secretary of State gave a distinct moral lift to an affair in which the line between heroes and villains has often been blurred. Even when Shultz was discussing whether he should have resigned to stop the arms-for-hostages scheme, his measured outrage was bracing. Given the "systematic way in which the National Security Council staff deliberately deceived me," he noted, "my sense of Did I do enough? has to a certain extent given way to a little edge...
...Shultz assailed the intrigue and fighting among Ronald Reagan's advisers. Some of them, he said, "deceived and lied" to the President. Charged the Secretary: "The President was not being given accurate information...
...After Shultz opposed the arms-for-hostages scheme, he said, the traditional rivalry between State and the NSC turned downright nasty, exacerbated by the hard-right conservatives who had never had much use for the Secretary of State. According to Shultz, one presidential assistant, Jonathan Miller, even took to nixing his travel plans; the Secretary was forced to lodge a personal complaint with the President. (Miller insists such travel decisions were made by Chief of Staff Don Regan...
...Shultz defended the President at every turn, denying a suggestion by Democratic Senator George Mitchell of Maine that Reagan may have misled him. But it seemed clear his boss had in fact played along with the efforts to keep the Secretary in the dark about the Iranian dealings...