From the Reagan Diaries:
Friday, July 24 [1981]:
Met with Congressmen who want the “Legal Assistance Program” continued. We have proposed reducing it. We don’t object indeed we support legal aid for people too poor to hire a lawyer when they need one, but we object to the way it has become a lobby for all sorts of causes — class action suits, etc. — which are the lawyers’ idea, not that of a client….
Al Haig has brought me a case of our Ambassador who is undercutting him (Al) both with the govt. of the country in which he serves and indeed our foreign policy itself. In this case I believe Al is right. I’m going to have a nose to nose with Dick Allen (who picked the guy) and back Al.
–Ronald Reagan