214. Notes of a Meeting1
MEETING NOTES
PRESIDENT’S MEETING WITH SEC WEINBERGER
Do not negotiate—permitted and prohibited activities. Sovs committed to stopping SDI.
If negotiate perm. & prohibited we in losing game.
P. I feel that way; once on table ackn. Willing to bargain.
CWW. Once negotiate you pull into the middle. Bound to put on constraints.
CWW. We prepared to respond. Leave ourselves with freedom to develop effective system.
No preparation necessary. We not tying you down. Don’t you tie us down.
P. How many of these in and out of liberal interpretation.
CWW. 5-year non-deployment is only offer we should make.
When get into permitted activities, we don’t know enough. Cites velocity of Kinetic vehicles.
P. Wouldn’t agree to anything except study for our own use.
CWW. It is on table at Geneva. NSDD language is OK to prevent this.
- Source: Reagan Library, Frank Carlucci Files, Secretary Shultz (01/21/1987–03/12/1987) [Meetings with the President—notes]. No classification marking. According to the President’s Daily Diary, Reagan met with Weinberger, Carlucci, Powell, and Regan in the Oval Office from 10:05 until 10:27 a.m. on February 17. (Reagan Library, President’s Daily Diary) No minutes were found.↩