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...Monday, the Special Situation Group chaired by Vice President George Bush met at the White House for 2½ hours to review some two dozen possible actions against the Soviet Union. After deciding upon which options to recommend to Reagan, Bush and Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese telephoned the President, who was spending the week in California. He approved the chosen steps, and the State Department officially informed the European allies...
...conversations with officeholders, who often provide background or personal observations. For this week's cover story on the inner workings of the Reagan Administration, White House Correspondents Laurence Barrett and Douglas Brew drew on knowledge built up over months of reporting on Reagan and his executive "troika"-Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. Says Barrett: "To know how the minds of these men work it is necessary to spend time with them at meals, on the tennis court, in a fishing boat, or just hang out with them...
Those questions are especially critical in this Administration because Reagan, more than most Presidents, relies on his aides to shape a policy consensus that he can accept, modify or reject. One answer is easy: there is no doubt which aides are most important. The so-called troika of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, 50, White House Chief of Staff James Baker, 51, and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, 42, almost constitutes an inner government. But how they are organized and operate is difficult even for the participants to describe. The troika is a puzzling three-headed creature that defies...
Some of the Secretaries have put their individual stamps on policy matters. Others have evidently failed to master the intricacies of their jobs. There are 17 members of the Cabinet, four of whom are, in a sense, ministers without portfolio: Counsellor Edwin Meese, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, Trade Representative Bill Brock and CIA Director William Casey. The following assessment of the men who have departmental responsibilities, listed in order of protocol, is based on the reporting of correspondents in TIME's Washington bureau...
...weeks, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, White House Counsellor Edwin Meese and other senior U.S. officials have been issuing a series of increasingly bellicose warnings about the behavior of Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government. The U.S. is concerned about what Haig calls the "drift toward totalitarianism" of the Nicaraguan regime, the presence of some 1,500 Cuban military advisers in the country and the role of Nicaragua in supporting the left-wing guerrillas in El Salvador. Haig is also irked by Nicaragua's own heavy arms buildup, which he believes is sponsored by Cuba and the Soviet Union...