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...Middle East, Weinberger's fears of entrapment in a drawn-out conflict fought without public support caused him at first to oppose sending Marines to Lebanon and then to insist on their withdrawal after terrorist attacks left 266 U.S. servicemen dead. Shultz objected that the pullout would undercut U.S. diplomacy in the area, and still regards it as a mistake. But Ronald Reagan ordered the withdrawal anyway and won the approval of voters, even though critics portrayed the pullout as a national humiliation. The reason, suggests Democratic Political Analyst William Schneider, is that the President sensed the persistence...
Nixon bitterly denounces antiwar activists, intellectuals, liberals and especially the press, whom he collectively accuses of bias, hypocrisy and hoping the Communists would win. He says of the war, "It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." Yet Nixon admits that Watergate and his own unpopularity undercut his appeals for military aid to South Viet...
...changed radically. The Soviets agreed in January to return to the bargaining table, and the new round of talks began March 12. Yet Reagan's most effective argument for extending the MX was basically the same: canceling the program would still send the wrong signal to Moscow and would undercut the U.S. bargaining position in Geneva to boot...
Liberals retort that the council is all too likely to give its members a vehicle to continue running away from the party. They fear the council will undercut the efforts of Paul Kirk, who was elected National Committee Chairman last month, to unify the Democrats. Kirk has made no secret of his desire eventually to disband the caucuses on the National Committee. As a first step, he intends to sit down with the caucus leaders soon and urge them to tone down the particular demands of their groups...
...emphasis to a defensive policy would be wrenching, and Reagan's then National Security Adviser, William Clark, was loath to upset his "client" bureaucracies. Thus when Teller obtained an audience with Reagan on Sept. 14, ) 1982, Clark attended as devil's advocate. He posed skeptical questions that tended to undercut the scientist's presentation...