Diary Entry - 06/25/1982
Key Facts
President Reagan meets Edward Rowney, Special Rep. U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Negotiations.
President Reagan announces the resignation of Secretary Haig and the nomination of George Shultz as Secretary of State.
Today was the day—I told Al H. I had decided to accept his resignation. He didn’t seem surprised but he said his differences were on policy and then said we didn’t agree on China or Russia etc. I made a simple announcement to the press and said I was nominating George Shultz for the job. I’d called him & like the patriot he is he said “yes.” This has been a heavy load. Up to Camp David where we were in time to see Al read his letter of resignation on T.V. I’m told it was his 4th re-write. Apparently his 1st was pretty strong—then he thought better of it. I must say it was O.K. He gave only one reason & did say there was a disagreement on foreign policy. Actually the only disagreement was over whether I made policy or the Sec. of State did.
