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...leading conservative think tanks. In 1975 Reagan gave his California gubernatorial papers to Hoover and became an honorary fellow. No fewer than 40 experts connected with Hoover, including Economists Milton Friedman and Martin Anderson, have served with the Reagan Administration. Thus it was only natural for Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese to consider Stanford and the Hoover Institution as a possible site for a Reagan library...
...second term would entail major changes in personnel as well as policy, and for a President as heavily dependent on his staff as Reagan is, the reshuffle would be extremely consequential. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, a staunch conservative, is already leaving the White House; Reagan formally nominated him last week to be Attorney General in the wake of the resignation of William French Smith, once the President's personal lawyer. The other two members of the "troika" that constituted a kind of inner Government are expected to depart soon after Election Day: White House Chief of Staff James Baker...
...even though some are only a few paces away from the Oval Office. He is vague about which underlings do what: an aide suggests that Reagan would be hard pressed to describe with any precision how Chief of Staff James Baker's responsibilities differed from those of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese before Meese was nominated to be Attorney General. (Baker is responsible for press and congressional relations; Meese was nominally in charge of domestic policy coordination.) After three years of almost daily contact with Reagan, one White House aide was not sure that the President knew his first name...
...controversy over the commission first erupted last May, when President Reagan replaced three members with appointees who shared his opposition to racial quotas and busing. "We wanted our own people," said White House Counsellor Edwin Meese. Two of the sacked members, Mary Frances Berry and Blandina Cardenas Ramirez, sued in federal court for an injunction forbidding their removal, arguing that the action violated the commission's legal status as an independent body. More than 30 Senators and 19 Representatives lined up to sponsor a bipartisan resolution to have commission members appointed by Congress rather than by the President. After...
...task force came back with the finding that although some hunger does exist in the U.S., the President's budget cuts have not reduced the availability of food for the poor. To opponents of the Administration, that assertion was about on a par with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese's comment in October that reports of widespread hunger were merely "anecdotal." Critics pointed to a study by the Centers for Disease Central in Atlanta suggesting that as many as 500,000 poor children under the age of six are suffering from malnutrition. Senator Edward Kennedy, who made...