Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy was overseen largely by White House Aide Michael Deaver, a former public relations executive who has loyally guarded Reagan's image since 1966. He and White House Chief of Staff James Baker decided last spring to stress broad themes over specific issues, to play up feelings of patriotism and prosperity rather than defend the details of Reagan's policies. The execution was left to Tuesday Team Inc., the cadre of Madison Avenue superstars recruited for the re-election account. Few of them had done political commercials before; their experience lay in dreaming up singing felines for Meow...
...responses had cost him points two weeks earlier in Louisville. Apart from the rehearsals, the President held briefing sessions with such advisers as Secretary of State George Shultz, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, longtime Reagan Adviser Stuart Spencer and White House Aides Baker and Michael Deaver...
...article about the vital role Michael Deaver plays in Reagan's life makes me wonder. Do the American people realize they are voting for Deaver and Nancy to run the country...
...Reagan Administration was preparing to take office. The inquiry gradually expanded to five more questions, including payments to Meese from two private funds used to help finance transition planning. Stein called 45 witnesses before the grand jury, among them Presidential Aides James Baker and Michael Deaver, and quizzed Meese for two days...
...hardness he may have acquired in his many years as a watchdog vanishes when the old trouper gives a vintage performance. Sometimes Deaver, standing in the back of an auditorium, listening one more time to the President using, say, a heroic Scottish ballad to make his pitch, finds his eyes growing moist with a familiar emotion. It is love, of course, a kind of deep filial devotion, and he is filled with it for Ronald Reagan. -By Robert Ajemlan