Word: caseys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff, was "secure" in his job. Baker has admitted seeing the briefing papers. Other White House sources said that the President also retains his confidence in Budget Director David Stockman, who used the Carter book to rehearse Reagan for the debate. Just where that leaves CIA Director William Casey, Reagan's 1980 campaign manager, who has obliquely denied having given the papers to Baker, as Baker claims he did, was not as clear. Washington press pundits continued to speculate last week that either Baker or Casey, who represent rival political factions among Reagan's top advisers, will have...
...papers fuss, Baker in particular was carrying out a busy schedule of normal White House business last week. Indeed, the staff was settling back into a state of near normality. In the Reagan Administration, however, it is normal for the Baker-Stockman wing of advisers and those led by Casey, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese and National Security Adviser William Clark to eye each other with considerable suspicion...
...Casey, he took the unusual step of walking into the Washington bureau of the New York Times, sitting down with three reporters, and claiming that he would never have used Carter documents to help Reagan, whose campaign he directed. "I wouldn't tolerate it," Casey said of the briefing book. "I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole...
...Casey had been put on the spot by White House Chief of Staff James Baker, who claimed that the Carter debate papers had been given to him by Casey. Budget Director David Stockman has admitted using the papers to rehearse Reagan for the 1980 debate. Casey earlier had said that he had "no recollection" of having seen the papers. Last week, despite deriding the idea of using them, he conceded that it was possible he might have passed some papers to Baker without reading them. But he said if Baker did acquire Carter documents, Baker was "remiss" in not telling...
Clearly, the briefing-book fuss had renewed old rivalries among the Reagan aides. Casey and Meese seemed to be trying to focus responsibility on Baker, a relative newcomer in the Reagan staff hierarchy who is viewed by the Republican right as too much of a moderating influence on the President. Meese, however, cannot separate himself that neatly from another instance of Carter White House information reaching the Reagan election staff. Richard Allen, Reagan's former National Security Adviser, has admitted receiving on three occasions what he calls "innocuous, trite, useless, nonsubstantive, nonclassified and unsolicited material" from Carter...