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Ever eager to win support in high places, NASA dispatched one of its 23-inch desktop models of space shuttle Columbia to Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. But like the original, it had a few problems. As the model sat in Meese's darkened office over the weekend, its cargo bay inexplicably swung open. Small metal pieces fell out. So sensitive is the White House alarm system these days that a flock of "white mice"-the nickname for agents responsible for office security-came scurrying. To their bafflement, they found the room locked, unoccupied and undisturbed. As with the real...
Fortunately, perhaps, Reagan has always parceled out authority. Even before the shooting, three members of his staff-Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker, and Deaver-had achieved a kind of supereminence. With restrictions on the President's time for months to come, this troika's power will grow more entrenched. It remains to be seen how well this apparatus would serve if events called for a 24-hour-a-day President...
...called troika at the top consists of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy Chief Michael Deaver, Reagan's closest personal aide. Within half an hour of the shooting, the troika set up a kind of command post at the hospital, and once the President was recuperating funneled briefing papers to him (greatly condensed to avoid taxing his strength...
Baker rushed to tell Presidential Counsellor Ed Meese the news; Meese too had heard it. He had punched a button on a Secret Service computer that tracks the President; it showed that Reagan was at the hospital. Both hurried to the White House residence to inform Nancy but discovered that she was already on her way to the hospital. Back in his office, Baker took...
...with sudden international problems. It has traditionally been the duty of the National Security Adviser to supervise "crisis management" in the situation room during major international incidents. But in the Reagan White House, the NSC adviser has been downgraded, and others -including Haig, Chief of Staff James Baker and Counsellor Edwin Meese -were considered for the situation room post. Haig was eliminated because it was thought best to handle such crises in the White House. Baker and Meese were rejected for fear of sparking a staff rivalry. Last week, Reagan chose George Bush for the job, the first time...