Word: counselloring
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...Europe. The Soviet Union, for example, now has 300 SS-20 missiles in place and capable of being targeted on Western Europe?up from 100 in 1979?while NATO currently has no land-based missiles that can hit the Soviet Union. "What [Brezhnev] is talking about," charged White House Counsellor Edwin Meese, "is a situation where, two-thirds of the way through a football game, one side is ahead 50 to 0, and they want to freeze the score for the rest of the game." Both Reagan and Meese were somewhat overstating the case, since NATO does have aircraft...
...ides of March looms as a crucial time. Pollster Richard Wirthlin and Counsellor Ed Meese have warned the President that just about now President Carter began to yield to outside clamor. He lost his power through retreat and vacillation...
...decision illustrated a startling ineptitude on the part of the President's staff. Only Counsellor Edwin Meese and Presidential Lawyer Fred Fielding reviewed the proposal, which was recommended by the Treasury and Justice Departments. Meese did not submit it to any of the Cabinet councils, which are designed to let Cabinet members and top staffers consider the consequences of pending proposals, nor did he mention it to the only high-level black presidential aide, Melvin Bradley of the Office of Policy Development...
Some European officials are openly concerned about the quality of advice that Reagan receives from the men around him. They fear that the President's most hawkish advisers, notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese, may look upon the Polish crisis as a chance to loosen the Soviet grasp on Eastern Europe. Such a policy, in turn, might force Moscow to crack down even harder. Others claim to hear too many voices coming from the Administration. Says a peeved British diplomat: "No sooner does one U.S. official announce an attitude than within 24 hours another...
...Deputy Secretary of State. Even more important, the post of National Security Adviser will be upgraded to give Clark direct access to the President and substantial authority to coordinate policy among the Pentagon, the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency. Allen, who was subordinate to Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, had neither. Says a senior presidential aide of the job's new status: "We want to have a single focal point at the White House for State and Defense. Because of the personality problems, it didn't work out that way in the past...