The_Info_Web/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James A. Baker III.md

491 B

tags
Person
Government
Chief of Staff

James A. Baker III served as the Chief of Staff under President Ronald Reagan. He was present at a meeting of Reagan's high command following the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak in June 1981, where he agreed that some sanctions against Israel were essential.1

Footnotes


  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. ↩︎