He said his idea to freeze the military budget is "not a unilateral cut in the next-January sense."
First, he announced a unilateral cut of 500 short-range nuclear weapons in Europe.
It won't allow time for Soviet unilateral cuts to take full effect or for arms control reductions to begin to bite.
Seeking the unilateral cuts sets up a confrontation with Delphi's two big unions.
But he suggested that this effort did not preclude unilateral cuts.
Nor was it wise for the British to make precipitate and unilateral cuts to their conventional forces.
You just don't make unilateral cuts in the naive hope that the Soviets are going to behave themselves.
So in violation of the contract, I made unilateral cuts, which was the only way I could get through the year.
Your belief that you have to make unilateral cuts in which European policy loses out I regard as the wrong approach.