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...Richard Darman joins the inner circle...
...scheduled to discuss the nation's money supply with Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the President's top aides came into the Oval Office to give a last-minute briefing. While Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker watched approvingly, Richard Darman went over a typed page containing concise answers to six questions that he expected Volcker to pose. Reagan paid close attention to Darman's script...
...people, both inside and out side the Administration, are paying close attention these days to the bright and ambitious Darman, 40, who had never even met Reagan prior to the 1980 election and who is an anomaly among Reagan's hard-right constituency. In the shake-out of White House responsibilities created by the departure of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Reagan's last ideological soul mate in the West Wing, Darman continued his steady, determined rise into the inner circle. Says Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver: "Dick Darman is one of the most powerful people here...
...Darman is scheduled shortly to move from his quarters in the White House basement to an office just outside Reagan's. That physical proximity will aid Darman in one of his principal duties, overseeing the day-to-day paper flow to and from the President...
...line-up will also give Darman's mentor Baker a chance to consolidate the making of policy, which Meese nominally controlled, with political and legislative strategies. For the past three weeks, at Baker's behest, Darman has coordinated a daily 7:30 breakfast meeting in the White House mess that brought the previously bifurcated realms of the Executive apparatus together on an effective basis for the first time since Reagan took office. As a result of the changes, predicts a senior Administration official, "we'll be less inclined to go with off-the-wall stuff that cannot...