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...After the 1980 election, Meese became Counsellor to the President, a job that carries Cabinet rank. But he shared the inner circle with two other aides, Michael Deaver and James Baker, who ended up wielding more power. Nonetheless, Meese had a special bond with the President. Partly it was based on his keen affinity for Reagan's philosophy and outlook. In addition, his every instinct was to play the role of protector. Unlike Donald Regan, who seems infected with the arrogance of his own power, Meese infuses almost every public utterance with a sense that he is acting only...
...helping a New York City defense supplier win a $31 million contract to produce small engines for the Army. Nofziger admitted to the New York Times that he signed a letter sent on behalf of the company to James E. Jenkins, who was the top aide to then Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. The letter, written in May 1982, just four months after Nofziger left the White House, urged Jenkins to intercede with the Army in considering the Welbilt Electronics Die Corp., later renamed Wedtech. Whether or not the letter played a role, the firm got the nonbid contract in September...
...hearings, and even late last week he maintained that he had not read the report. Yet Attorney General Edwin Meese is widely regarded as the driving force behind the commission that he inherited from his predecessor, William French Smith. Indeed, in his 16 months in office, the former Presidential Counsellor has emerged as the Administration's chief crusader for Ronald Reagan's social agenda. It is Ed Meese who speaks out against judicial activism, openly challenges Supreme Court decisions through Justice Department briefs, and selects conservative ideologues for nomination to the federal judiciary in an effort to realize the Reagan...
...reform, Meese has seized the President's more peripheral social program as his agenda. His whirlwind of activity has "very little coordination with the White House," as one presidential staff member dryly put it. But as an adviser to Reagan since his days as California Governor, and White House Counsellor during the first term, Meese knows he is / in step with the President's intention to challenge existing law on such provocative issues as abortion, criminal rights, affirmative action and school prayer...
...question sounded facetious. "Was there anybody who had either given loans or financial aid to you or your family who wasn't subsequently given a federal job?" asked Vermont's Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. Laughter rippled through the crowded Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese grinned. But Leahy said he was serious. Meese hesitated, then came up with a name: James Schmidt, a senior vice president of California's Great American First Savings Bank, which had loaned Meese $423,000 in mortgages and loans secured by houses in California and Virginia. Leahy tartly reminded Meese that four...