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...weather. Traffic flows; restaurants offer a table. The first drafts for all proposed budgets for FY 1983 are due at the Office of Management and Budget by Sept. 1, and that will keep several people at their desks in town. At the White House, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese minds the mostly empty store. Reagan's other top aide, Chief of Staff James Baker, is gone fishing in Texas...
...White House would like to believe him. Said Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese III at a conference of mostly conservative blacks organized by Sowell last December: "Some of the people who purport to represent the black community are talking about the ideas of the last ten years. You are talking about the ideas of the next ten years...
...visits to Alaska and Hawaii, that he has earned an uninterrupted vacation. Only a doctor and a military aide are at the ranch with Reagan. Chief of Staff James Baker will spend time alone fishing in Texas and Assistant Michael Deaver will retreat to the New England coast. Only Counsellor Edwin Meese will remain on duty, splitting his time between the White House and California. Says one aide: "The President wants time to himself." His only scheduled activity is a short visit to Los Angeles for a meeting with advisers on defense policy, socializing, and a possible press conference, plus...
...cuts. By Administration estimates, which many private economists feel are too rosy, almost $30 billion more in reductions will be needed for 1983. Even the Defense Department has been instructed to prepare a list of possible cuts. Says Meese: "No program is immune." Despite the public outcry, the presidential counsellor claims "the cuts so far have been relatively minimal, not by any means draconian...
Reagan's belief in what he is doing is real, and that faith spread to his people, says Counsellor Edwin Meese. Now, says Staff Director David Gergen, that belief has been forged into pride, as the Administration has succeeded with its initiatives. The process has not been smooth or faultless by a long shot. The Communist threat to El Salvador was overstated. The idea of cutting back Social Security benefits was premature and ill-considered. The immigration program consumed five Cabinet meetings with debate and bickering. But even skeptical aides see that Reagan never turned away from his demands...