Word: counsellors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress was heading in a different direction. In an appearance before a House subcommittee, Rita Lavelle testified that regional offices of the EPA have been looking into charges that a "pattern" of organized-crime involvement in toxic-waste disposal exists. Lavelle also revealed that she had met with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese and White House Cabinet Secretary Craig Fuller "ten or twelve" times to discuss specific toxic-waste issues, although she said neither tried to influence any of the agency's decisions. The White House subsequently said that its counsel Fred Fielding had already begun to review all contacts...
...Superfund closer scrutiny. According to colleagues, Gorsuch felt that Lavelle, who had worked for two years on Reagan's public relations staff when he was Governor of California, had been forced on her by the White House. Lavelle exacerbated matters by bragging about her ties with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. Although Meese says he knows her only slightly, Lavelle referred to him fondly as her "godfather...
...bothered to point out that the impact of jobs programs usually comes only after recovery is under way. House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois appointed a ten-member task force to write a jobs bill. Senators Howard Baker of Tennessee and Paul Laxalt of Nevada met with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese to enlist his support. Later in the week the White House announced that Reagan was considering a limited and as yet unformulated plan to speed up Government construction projects in order to create more jobs...
...reinforced what Reagan was hearing from his staff and Cabinet. Advocates such as White House Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, who had earlier proposed deficit-reducing steps and been rebuffed by the President, sat back and let others do the talking. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese for the first time argued strongly for slower increases in military spending. Secretary of State George Shultz, a newcomer to budget councils, whose advice as a professional economist Reagan highly respects, artfully mused about ways in which military outlays could be reduced if only Weinberger agreed that they...
...fight hard to keep the 10% cut from being reduced or pushed back, much less speeded up. Reagan's obstinacy on other budget matters, however, bred frustration and animosity among aides who feared that the President was making a disastrous mistake. After one staff meeting, Baker and Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese got into a shouting match over an absurdly irrelevant matter: whose staff had contributed more to the annual federal charity drive...