Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early in the evening, a yellow Ford pulled up to the southwest entrance of the White House. Transition boss Edwin Meese and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt piled out and proceeded to the Situation Room in the basement. They were about to make their nightly call to Ronald Reagan at his Pacific Palisades home and now they felt it necessary to use the most tap-proof telephones in the nation to discuss the most top-secret political topic in town: Who would be members of his new Cabinet...
...schedule, and at least the first appointments are expected to be announced this week, about the time incoming Presidents generally disclose their choices. But there were strong indications that the "Reaganauts," as the transition aides have taken to calling themselves, were having unexpected trouble making some of their boss's first choices stick. That was surprising enough for an Administration-to-be that boasts it will bring efficient business-management techniques to Government. But it was even more surprising because Reagan was known to have decided on his initial top choices at meetings with his California kitchen cabinet before...
...crisis atmosphere eased somewhat at week's end, after leaders of the Warsaw Pact nations, including Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, were summoned to Moscow for a secret summit. They later issued a rambling communiqué expressing confidence that Poles "will be able to overcome the present difficulties." The statement also noted that Poland "can firmly count on" the support of its East bloc brethren, meaning that the Soviets were still ready to step in if need...
...investigation began in 1979 after Jennifer Martin, 32, a lawyer in ABC'S West Coast contracts department, pointed out to her boss that for each episode of Charlie's Angels the network was paying Spelling and Goldberg $30,000 for "exclusivity." Why, she asked, should ABC pay for exclusivity when under the terms of an earlier agreement it already had exclusive rights to their services? According to Martin's memo of the meeting, which the D.A. quoted, ABC V.P. Ronald Sunderland, replied: "You want to know what it's really for? They're [cheating...
Suddenly, the White House console phone with the special red button at Powell's right hand buzzes. "Yes, sir," answers Powell, sitting up at attention. "The boss" wants him. Shrugging into his jacket, patting his pockets to make sure he has cigarettes and matches, Powell hurries off to see probably the only person he has never kept waiting...