Presidents Ford and Carter, along with James Baker and Henry Kissinger, came to the White House to promote it.
It lasted no longer than his first encounter with James Baker, Michael Deaver and Ed Meese, the President's staffers.
James Baker and Warren Christopher say a U.S. President should be required by law to consult with Congress before going to war.
A plan named after James Baker, then America's Treasury secretary, offered the Latin Americans a temporary rescheduling (similar in spirit to the sort of scheme being discussed for the Greeks today).
The two chairmen of the group-Lee Hamilton, a former Indiana congressman, and James Baker, a former secretary of state-will be fixtures on the airwaves for days.