Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though his lobbying business has dried up amid charges of illegal influence peddling, former White House Aide Michael Deaver seemed to be on the rebound. Deaver recently emerged from self-imposed obscurity to advise Ronald Reagan on the Iran-contra crisis. Moreover, an investigation of Deaver's affairs has dragged on for seven months, prompting allies to suggest that Special Prosecutor Whitney North Seymour Jr. had no case against him. Last week, however, a federal court broadened Seymour's authority: several Deaver associates could soon face charges of perjury and obstructing justice, and Deaver might be indicted for lying...
...White House confirmed, meanwhile, that Reagan met privately last week with two prominent elder statesmen that former aide Michael K. Deaver is said to have recruited in a campaign for the ouster of White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan...
Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Deaver arranged the meeting in the White House family quarters Dec. 4 between Reagan and his wife, Nancy, and former Democratic National Committee chairman Robert S. Strauss and former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, to discuss the widening crisis...
...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...
...believes it is "his" White House) and that managed by his predecessor, James Baker. Regan firmly believes that the pyramid of command he has established is more efficient and less susceptible to discord than the often uneasy troika that Baker formed with Edwin Meese and Michael Deaver...