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...Dwight Eisenhower's White House staff with such authority that he was often dubbed the Assistant President. Though he came to the White House only in early February, after four years as Treasury Secretary, Regan has built a hierarchical organization that Adams might well admire. McFarlane retains independent access to the President on foreign policy problems, or did before Reagan's surgery. But otherwise, says one veteran of Reagan's first term White House staff, "Don has asserted himself so that nobody is able to lift a finger without his blessing...
...cranky exchanges stemmed partly from the White House decision to limit reporters' access to the President's doctors and not to release a full pathology report on his condition. In public, however, Reagan's doctors have so far been commendably open in discussing their patient's condition. As for the reporters, few would deny Reagan the right to a certain amount of privacy. Still, many of them feel that Speakes did a clumsy job of defining the boundary between the public's need to know about its leader's health and Reagan's rights as a patient...
...over the job of acting press secretary when James Brady was wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on the President, however, Speakes has not enjoyed as much freedom as some of his predecessors, notably Jody Powell in the Carter Administration. Some reporters, sensing that Speakes does not have complete access to Reagan's inner circle, take out their frustrations on him, thus contributing to the combative tone of the briefings...
...Reagan's first term, top White House Aides Michael Deaver and James Baker proved so adroit at polishing the President's image that any shortcomings within the press office were overlooked. Chief of Staff Donald Regan and Director of Communications Patrick Buchanan are more prone to bluntness. Though Speakes' access to senior presidential aides has improved over the past few months, he has not developed the public relations finesse of a Baker or Deaver. His fuse remains shorter than his good ole boy demeanor suggests. He also allows himself to be annoyed too easily by those correspondents who seem...
...Soviets were threatening to recognize the East German regime's authority over Berlin, which would have had the effect of denying access to the city for the U.S., France and Britain. It also placed the Adenauer government in jeopardy. Eisenhower made it clear that he would oppose the Soviets' attempt to violate the Four-Power agreement...