Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consider himself a success. Accordingly, he shows no trace of the driven behavior that manifested itself in Richard Nixon's dark humors, Lyndon Johnson's frequent tirades and Jimmy Carter's agonizing self-doubt. Reagan feels no need to brood alone over decisions. Says Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver: "I think it is interesting that he does not have a hideaway office like Nixon and Carter." The intensity of his conservative tenets frees him from worry over whether his decisions have been correct. Says one key aide: "I have never heard him say, 'I was wrong...
...great emphasis on the policy salesman's role?as indeed a President must, although it should hardly be his top priority. They claim, for example, that Reagan spends more time than any other modern President writing and editing his own remarks. A corollary to this stress on communication, notes Deaver, is that "you should never try to make him do something he doesn't believe in, because if you do that, we will fail. The greatest asset this Administration has is Ronald Reagan; if he can't communicate his positions, we are in real trouble. And if he doesn...
Boston 126, Deaver...
...network's coverage by saying, "Taken together, Mr. Reagan has now reversed policy and infuriated conservative members of his own party on two scores: first the tax increases, now China." With that, recalls one White House adviser, the President "went through the ceiling." He telephoned Aides Michael Deaver and James Baker to say he wanted to complain. Their advice: call Rather yourself. So Reagan did-just as CBS was beginning its second broadcast of the Evening News at 7 o'clock. Minutes later, on the air, Rather related the conversation to CBS's viewers. Reagan was "concerned...
...Inauguration by Baker's deputy, Richard Darman, 39, to coordinate the passage of Reagan's economic program. "It was important that everyone in the Administration knew there was a clearing house," explains Darman. Other core participants: Baker's partners in the White House top troika, Michael Deaver, 44, and Meese; Communications Director David Gergen, 40; Kenneth Duberstein, 38, the Administration's gregarious and highly effective lobbyist on Capitol Hill; Budget Director David Stockman, 35; and Craig Fuller, 31, who coordinates the work of the Cabinet...