Diary Entry - 04/21/1982
Key Facts
President Reagan and Vice President Bush enjoy a working lunch together.
Israeli fighter planes attack Palestinian-controlled villages in southern and coastal Lebanon, breaking a nine-month-old cease-fire between Israel and the PLO.
An N.S.C. meeting on “START” our idea for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the Soviets. We’ve had a team working on this. Some of the journalists who write so easily as to why we dont sit down & start talking with the Soviets should know just how complicated it is. Our team is doing a good job. Israel bombed a P.L.O. base in Lebanon. There have been some provocations and an unfounded report that an Israeli plane was shot down. Took the afternoon off on a beautiful spring day & went down to Quantico for a horseback ride. Marion and Earle Jorgenson are coming to spend the night.
