Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear that the collegial style of staff organization, in which Baker had ultimately emerged first among equals, had been breaking down. Meese had been sidetracked by his confirmation troubles and the investigations of his personal business dealings with friends who later gained federal jobs. Baker was burning out, and Deaver felt pinched on his Government salary...
...subject a few days before last Christmas, when Baker visited his office. "I'm going to make you an offer you can't turn down," Regan said. "Let's trade places." Baker said he was receptive to the idea but would not push it; he insisted that Deaver be sounded out about whether he might be interested in the top White House staff job. Regan took the matter up with Deaver on Dec. 26, saying, "Look, Jim wants a new challenge and so do I. We want to know if you're taking yourself out of the running...
...weeks ago Deaver cleared the way by announcing his own imminent return to private life. Last Monday he took the switch proposal to the President. Observed Reagan: "It's fascinating. A fascinating idea." Reagan quickly called in Regan, then Baker. He told them that he needed to sleep on the proposal, but in fact he had already made up his mind. Said he to Deaver that day: "They both like the idea, and so do I." The President disclosed the well-kept secret personally on Tuesday morning, with Regan and Baker at his side, and found that he had given...
...anticlimax. Ronald Reagan knows that better than most, and his second Inaugural, a four-day wingding that begins this Friday, will be quieter, more controlled and a good deal less ostentatious than his first. The Inaugural, America's 50th, is being carefully crafted by the soon-to-depart Michael Deaver and the Presidential Inaugural Committee to rein in spending and promote a new egalitarian image for the Administration. Its theme: "We the People . . . An American Celebration...
...could see that there was a vacuum about to happen here. With Clark out, Meese and Deaver going, and Baker having tired blood, something had to give. To use a hockey analogy, the change had to be made on the fly. You don't have the luxury of waiting. So you have to take an experienced person who knows the issues, who understands some of the play. There's no good time to change in an ongoing thing like this...