Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first four years, culminating in his landslide re-election. Many of the aides were Californians who had served him well in Sacramento when he was Governor more than a decade ago. Edwin Meese expects to be confirmed within a month as Attorney General. Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, the closest adviser on social and personal matters to both Reagan and the First Lady, is expected to take a Washington public relations job. Attorney General William French Smith and Interior Secretary William Clark are leaving Government service to return to California. Going to the Treasury Department with Baker...
...curious sense of drift and lack of drive at the White House. Declared one former White House aide: "Since the election there has been no energy, no enthusiasm and no firm game plan." The staff changes would have been far less disruptive back in November, which is when Baker, Deaver and Nancy Reagan had urged the President to clean house. Instead of taking the initiative, however, Reagan characteristically let each aide...
Several of Reagan's aides, however, have felt a hankering to move on. Last week it was announced that two of the President's closest California confidants would soon take their leave: Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver wants to bolster his bank account, and Interior Secretary William Clark plans to ride back to his 880-acre ranch near San Luis Obispo. Two others in the California contingent are also poised to shift. After a bruising inquiry into his finances, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese was renominated last week to succeed Attorney General William French Smith, thus bringing Smith closer...
...Deaver's departure is perhaps the most critical. For the past 18 years, he has enjoyed an almost familial intimacy with the First Couple, acquiring along the way an unsurpassed talent for packaging Reagan in glowing, telegenic images. His most recent brainstorm: asking ABC to include the President, by remote broadcast, in the opening ceremonies of the Super Bowl...
...Deaver, 46, has long made no secret of wanting to return to private life, saying he found it difficult to live in Washington on his White House salary (currently $72,000 a year). His resignation came on the day that a Wall Street Journal article raised questions about the propriety of his wife allegedly earning more than $50,000 a year as a public relations consultant handling some clients who have dealt with her husband at the White House. Chief of Staff James Baker insisted that "there is absolutely no connection" between the timing of Deaver's exit...