Reagan Doctrine legal barriers prohibiting private organizations and citizens from supporting these resistance movements. Within the Reagan administration, the doctrine was quickly embraced by nearly all of Reagan's top national security and foreign policy officials, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, and a series of Reagan National Security advisers including John Poindexter, Frank Carlucci, and Colin Powell. Reagan himself was a vocal proponent of the policy. Seeking to expand Congressional support for the doctrine in the 1985 State of the Union Address in February 1985, Reagan said: "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives...on
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs completely on January 31, 1961, and for the remainder of the decade, all of its functions were vested in the "Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower)". However, Congress authorized a permanent assistant secretary position for health affairs in November 1969 (P.L. 91-121). The post was then re-established as "Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health and Environment)" in June 1970 by Defense Directive 5136.1. In January 1976, the position was re-designated "Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)", a title that has endured to the present day. The ASD(HA) is responsible for a number of organizations which directly affect the health care of service