Diary Entry - 01/14/1983
Key Facts
President Reagan attends a National Security Council briefing regarding the visit of Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan.
President Reagan holds press conference to discuss arms policy.
Antoly B. Scharansky, an imprisoned Soviet dissident, ends the hunger strike he began in September 1982.
A long N.S.C. briefing re the visit of P.M. Nakasone of Japan. Amb. Mike Mansfield was on hand. Following this a meeting with U.N. Sec. Gen. Perez Cuellar. We’d decided I should have a press availability today to straighten out the girls & boys of the press who are all preaching that our “arms policy” is in disarray over the resignation (firing) of Eugene Rostow. I opened by using all their words about them—that they were in Disarray, chaotic about to unravel into complete shambles. They got the msg. & seemed a little selfconscious. It was a good session. I enjoyed myself. Had the Dem. leadership staff in for pic’s. & then the Repub. staff. Tonite phoned 5 T.V. programs (conf. call) that are holding job fairs. These turn out to be pretty successful. The unemployed appear or call in seeking a job & business people call & hire right there on the air.
