Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...form. There is a tidiness about Meese's mind that is appreciated by Reagan, who cringes at disorder and tension on his staff. In the past, Meese has clarified matters when Reagan misspoke, but never in a manner implying that he knew more about the topic than his boss. Indeed, he probably did not. Meese is a synthesizer and organizer who has no intellectual pretensions...
...when it is bad news, because I have no ax to grind," he explains. When he does take issue with Reagan, it is often in private, and only when he is convinced that his argument can help Reagan avoid political injury. A careful observer of the moods of his boss, he knew Reagan was restive under all the advice to select George Bush as his running mate. Meese maintained his silence, then finally urged Reagan to keep his options open. Reagan did just that and ended up with the embarrassing eleventh-hour dalliance with Gerald Ford at the convention...
Still, there is a well-concealed tough side to Deaver. As Governor, Reagan used Deaver, then his assistant chief of staff, to quietly but firmly tell errant department heads that they must shape up. He managed to spread the right amount of fear without creating an enemy for his boss...
...recriminations and a few gloomy second thoughts. "We suffered a heavy defeat," acknowledged Helmut Kohl, chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.). "The results are disappointing," said Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, deputy chairman of the winning Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.). But not, clearly, to Wischnewski's boss, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Three days after the election he strode briskly to his chancellery office, and in an impatient, business-as-usual manner, presided over a meeting of his newly reappointed Cabinet as if nothing had happened...
...landing men on the moon quickly turned into boredom after repeated video exposure of the dusty, lifeless lunar surface. Many people pressed loudly and insistently for more attention to earthly problems. NASA is still suffering budgetary blues from this outcry. Indeed, only last week the space agency's beleaguered boss, Robert Frosch, announced he was quitting, reportedly because of lack of financial support...