Diary Entry - 03/11/1983
Key Facts
President Reagan meets with Special Envoy to the Middle East Phil Habib to discuss the current situation in the Middle East.
The President and the First Lady travel to Camp David.
Robert Hawke, leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and a new twenty-seven member cabinet are sworn into office.
Brkfst. with our Soph. class (my class) of Congressmen. They are a fine young group who’ve been very supportive. I needed them this morning after reading Lou Cannon’s story in the W. Post. It was a vicious series of falsehoods & I was mad as h--l. An N.S.C. meeting—Phil Habib is back. F.M. Shamir (Israel) is coming as is the F.M. of Lebanon. We have hope that maybe Israel is softening on the withdrawal—we’ll know by Monday. A reception for the conference of Nat. St. Legislators.—I’m almost forgetting—a press availability in which I got a chance to tell how I feel about that Congressional Lynch mob that finally caused Anne Burford to resign. I’m waiting for Nancy—coming in from California & we’ll be off to Camp David. And here she is.
