Word: deaver
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...that he took his first plunge into politics and became Reagan's campaign chairman for Ventura County. Reagan was equally taken with the amiable Clark and made him chief of his Sacramento staff early in his first term. Clark's staff included Edwin Meese III and Michael Deaver. To lighten the paper flow into the Governor's office, Clark developed the famous "mini-memo" system of single-page briefings, which is still in use at the White House. When aides groused that many ideas were too complex to be boiled down to a one-page memo, Clark...
...Democrats are not holding meetings to find out why they are losing male voters." However, White House sources admit that women's issues have become a matter of high-level concern. Responsibility for dealing with the gender gap has been turned over to Deputy Chief of Staff Mike Deaver with orders, say sources, to "blunt it-by substance and symbolism...
...campaign, Barrett was named TIME'S White House correspondent in 1981. Familiarity with the Reagan team certainly did not breed contempt in him; neither did it render him unwilling to make tough judgments. He depicts Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese as deceitful and ineffectual, Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver as a plodding loyalist, National Security Adviser William Clark as a tough conniver, and Chief of Staff Baker as a game player with few deeply held beliefs...
...there did not seem to be much reason to change from Volcker. At week's end support was shifting heavily to Volcker. Budget Director David Stock man joined Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, in backing Volcker. Vice President George Bush and Presidential Advisers Michael Deaver and Jim Baker threw their weight behind Volcker, while Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese remained opposed to him. At the moment, the decision is in the President's hands...
While Dingell failed to offer conclusive evidence-indeed Reagan did not even travel to New Jersey-the Congressman nonetheless maintained that the document "makes clear that Miss Lavelle and Mr. Deaver had been discussing the use of the Superfund for the intended benefit of certain congressional candidates, a Governor and the President of the United States." In reply, Deaver denied having had political discussions with Lavelle. "I've never talked to Lavelle the whole time she was in Washington," he said, and added jokingly, "I thought the Superfund was the United...