Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb and his wife Sondra often wine and dine Washington's most glittering names. One figure they would rather not meet, however, is Whitney North Seymour Jr., the independent counsel attempting to prosecute former Reagan Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver for perjury. Last week Seymour tried to subpoena the Gotliebs to testify about Deaver's involvement in Canadian affairs while in the White House...
...forlorn faces assaults the nation's moral equanimity, characters linked in the public mind not by any connection between their diverse dubious deeds but by the fact that each in his or her own way has somehow seemed to betray the public trust: Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, Michael Deaver, Ivan Boesky, Gary Hart, Clayton Lonetree, Jim and Tammy Bakker, maybe Edwin Meese, perhaps even the President. Their transgressions -- some grievous and some petty -- run the gamut of human failings, from weakness of will to moral laxity to hypocrisy to uncontrolled avarice. But taken collectively, the heedless lack of restraint...
Some former officials, following another time-honored tradition, apparently saw Government service as a stepping-stone to later affluence. Michael Deaver, Lyn Nofziger and Richard Allen were able to trade in their Government contacts for lucrative consulting businesses. Both Nofziger and Deaver have come under investigation for allegedly violating the Ethics in Government Act by lobbying their former employers too soon after leaving the Administration; Deaver has been indicted for perjury...
...most, however, leaving office under a cloud shadows all their days. Deaver has seen his staff of 18 wither to a secretary, a bookkeeper and an aide. He has shuttered his glossy offices in Washington and put his fancy furniture in storage...
...element is Kenneth Duberstein, 42, a chain-smoking Brooklyn-born political operative who will call signals as the deputy chief of staff. Duberstein handled congressional relations for Reagan in the first term, and alone among Baker's assistants he retains close ties to the President's Old Guard, especially Deaver and longtime Political Adviser Stuart Spencer. Joining Duberstein will be Thomas Griscom, 37, who served as Baker's garrulous press secretary and alter ego on Capitol Hill. Griscom delayed returning to a lucrative public-relations job to assist his former boss during the transition period, and has apparently been persuaded...