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 Legislative Affairs Secretary of Defense and Assistant "to" the Secretary of Defense five times, largely because the Secretary of Defense has historically been authorized a limited number of assistant secretaries. The position was given statutory standing as the "Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs)" by the National Defense Authorization Act for FY1994 (P.L. 103-160), passed November 30, 1993. The table below includes both the various titles of this post over time, as well as all the holders of those offices. The annual budget for the ASD(LA) is contained in the OSD's budget, under the Defense-Wide Operation and Maintenance (O&M) account. The Obama