Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upset because I know my husband, I know what he knows and how he works best. Intellectually, people tend to underestimate him. After the debate I talked to Mike (Deaver, deputy White House chief of staff). He's my oldest friend, and I'm sure that he knows that whatever I say, I say it with all good intentions. I just said I thought what they did in the preparation was all wrong, and let's not have it happen again...
...course, wives have pull with husbands. In the Reagans' case, her impact & may be greater because the bond is stronger. After 33 years together, they are, by all accounts, rapturously fond of each other. "She has always had more influence than people generally realize," says Michael Deaver, the departing White House deputy chief of staff and long her principal ally in the Administration. Even when she does not make her position known on an issue, Administration officials have learned to anticipate her potential support or opposition and proceed accordingly. "The threat of her influence," says one White House aide...
...because she knows that they are the ones who will make things happen." Again and again, she has used her leverage to effect important personnel changes right up to the Cabinet level. There is now a rather effective upstairs-downstairs alliance between her and the leading West Wing moderates, Deaver and Chief of Staff James Baker. "I've always been comfortable talking with Mike (Deaver)," she explains. "He's my oldest friend, and I'm sure that he knows that whatever I say, I say it with all good intentions, trying to be helpful. So there's not really...
Nevertheless, Deaver has said he is leaving public office because he cannot live comfortably on his $72,000 White House stipend...
...least Deaver is now, for whatever reasons, leaving the Administration. Ed Meese has shown a similar disregard for the standards of high government service and now he is to be rewarded with the office that is supposed to most symbolize those standards of fair-play and honor--the Attorney Generalship...