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 the ASD(HA) is an Executive Service Level IV official. He or she is nominated by the President of the United States, and confirmed by the United States Senate. This position was originally established in 1949 as the "Chairman, Armed Forces Medical Policy Council." Reorganization Plan No. 6 (1953) abolished the council and transferred its functions to a new position, the "Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)". In August 1953, some functions of this position were transferred to the "Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower)", and the title was changed to "Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health and Medical)". The position was abolished