Word: counsellors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Scott Meese, 19, son of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese Ill, a Princeton sophomore; of injuries in a car accident; in McLean...
...Ronald Reagan's top advisers, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, was conspicuously absent from the tight-knit trio of aides that met two weeks ago to determine Alexander Haig's fate. While White House Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief Michael Deaver and National Security Adviser William Clark discussed the Secretary of State's resignation with Reagan, Meese was kept in the dark. Indeed, the man once regarded as the "deputy President" did not learn of Haig's departure until he returned...
...clearest sign that the Counsellor's White House role was shrinking came with the resignation of Clark's predecessor (and Meese's protege), Richard Allen-a decision from which Meese was excluded. Clark demanded direct access to the President; Allen had reported through Meese. When Clark took charge, Meese effectively lost control of the foreign policy apparatus at the White House, which had been half of his charter. In domestic policy, which loomed large in the Administration's first year, the battles with Congress were waged largely by David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management...
Haig's quarrels with the White House staff started a few hours after the Inauguration, when he handed Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese a memo, for Reagan's approval, demanding total control over foreign policy (he never quite got it). Haig was often at public odds with Cabinet colleagues and even some of his subordinates...
...picked by Schiavone to head its investigation was Robert Shortley, 60, a onetime FBI agent who retired from the agency in 1955. Shortley is a longtime friend of Edward V. Hickey, director of special support services for the White House and a casual acquaintance of White House Counsellor Edwin Meese. Shortley's wife Maiselle works at the White House as an aide to Morton Blackwell, a liaison with conservative groups. Anthony Dolan, a Reagan speechwriter, is Shortley's brother-in-law; so is John T. ("Terry") Dolan, director of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, which raised more...