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There the money stayed until one day in early September, when a staff member of the Office of Policy Development discovered the cash. That evening, the staffer notified White House Counsellor Edwin Meese; next day Meese told other senior
...that Reagan and company lacked commitment to the cause, he began attacking the Administration. Last week he found himself out of a job. Nominated as his successor: Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., 51, a black Republican, president of the Urban League of San Diego and a friend of White House Counsellor Edwin Meese...
Both Veliotes and Crocker deny that the official made any formal proposal of covert action during their meeting with him, although they admit the discussion did involve Libya. Edwin Meese, counsellor to the President, would neither confirm nor deny there was a plan. Said he: "It would be totally inappropriate for me to comment." Declared State Department Spokesman Dean Fischer: "There was no discussion of a covert plot to overthrow Gaddafi, and the French official made no request for logistical or diplomatic assistance from...
Leaders of American Jewish organizations were especially dismayed by the AWACS vote, and the tactics they thought the Administration had used to win it. On the morning of the Senate roll call, How ard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, cornered Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese in a hotel room in San Francisco. Meese was in town to keep a longstanding date to address an A.J.C. dinner that night. Squadron accused the Administration of trying to muzzle his organization by implying that the A.J.C.'s lobbying against the sale had put Israeli interests ahead of America's. Furthermore, he complained...
...Secretary Beryl Sprinkel tried to get his boss to soften the rhetoric. Regan, however, refused to include in his speeches the suggested changes dictated over the phone by Sprinkel's office. At week's end it became clearer why Regan seemed so sure of his footing. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese told the Business Council at a meeting in Hot Springs, Va., that the President agrees with his Treasury Secretary on the need for the Fed to increase the money supply slightly...