Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senators who might normally be inclined to slip in an amendment or two to protect favored interest groups instead extolled the virtues of tax fairness as they preened for the folks back home. With public sentiment already riled by the influence-peddling scandal surrounding former White House Aide Michael Deaver, it was an inopportune time for lawmakers to appear beholden to lobbyists on the evening news. As Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole dryly warned his colleagues last week, "I wouldn't want to be offering any tax breaks...
...tangled affairs of former White House Aide Michael Deaver took a few more twists last week. Whitney North Seymour Jr., a former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, was named by a special three-judge panel as the independent counsel to investigate allegations of misconduct against him. Seymour was instructed to investigate all of Deaver's suspect dealings and not be limited to the two cited by the Justice Department: Deaver's approach last summer to then White House National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane on behalf of a tax break for Puerto Rico, and his participation in a meeting last October with...
...policy vacuum that has permitted the American economy to career close to the fiscal brink have already received more attention (and shekels from Newsweek), than they deserve. What hasn't gotten so much remark is the character of the man himself. Perhaps people are tired of Stockman, perhaps Michael Deaver's shenanigans have supplied everyone's sleaze fix, but Triumph is not only the tale of history's greatest fiscal fiasco, it's an extraordinary summary of the political degeneration of a generation, a moral and institutional slackness that characterizes politics the Harvard...
Puerto Rico, another client, wanted to attack the U.S. Treasury to win special tax breaks. "I said no to that approach," Deaver declared. "I said base the appeal on the President's Caribbean Basin Initiative. No nation has ever proposed doing anything that was wrong in principle. But sometimes they have been wrong about tactics. I help with that...
...Deaver has not lost any clients because of the flap. The world will still need people like him who can convert ideas into reality, he says. One lament is that he became a problem for Reagan. "I feel bad that he has to defend me," said Deaver...