Bush, Vice-President George

In April President Reagan announced that the US would shortly propose a bold American initiative for a comprehensive worldwide ban on chemical weapons .On 18 April Vice-President George Bush presented the US proposal to the CD. This paper (CD/500) built upon earlier US ideas and was the most comprehensive draft so far presented to the CD. The verification proposals were stringent, as might have been expected declarations of stockpiles and permitted... 

Policy was the President s prerogative. As soon as Bush exposed it to view Roosevelt seized it Bush took that decision to be the most important outcome of the meeting and put it emphatically first in his memorandum to Conant Roosevelt wanted policy consideration restricted to a small group (it came to be called the Top Policy Group). He named its members Vice President Wallace, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, Bush and Conant Every man owed his authority to the President Roosevelt had instinctively reserved nuclear weapons policy to himself. 

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