Word: deaver
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...White House wanted an open commitment from Republican William Cohen of Maine, another co-sponsor of the resolution to reject the sale. Cohen is a friend of Presidential Adviser Michael Deaver, and they discussed the issue at length. He also met twice with the President. In their second session, he said that he was afraid Israel would become a scapegoat if the sale were rejected, and that the embers of anti-Semitism would be fanned. But Cohen also told Reagan he feared "another holocaust" if Israel's hostile neighbors were further armed. On the latter point, Reagan was reassuring...
...back and quietly sought out Kissinger. Just as he boarded the plane, Haig explained, he had been handed cables from the U.S. embassy in Jidda, wondering about giving a dinner for Nixon. My God, asked Haig, was Nixon going to Saudi Arabia? By this time, White House Aide Mike Deaver was calling 26000 with the same question. Kissinger agreed to ask discreetly what was going on. Ever the conspirator, Nixon threw his hands in the air. He was not sure, he claimed. He had invitations to visit several nations in the Middle East. Whether the Saudis would let him come...
...sign that Reagan means business, the voluntarism project at the White House has been placed under the supervision of one of his top aides, Michael Deaver. Deaver foresees a two-pronged effort: first, to promote successful private-sector models of social service. Reagan cited a Philadelphia ghetto shelter for 500 street youths founded by David and Falaka Fattah. In spite of losing some federal funding, Falaka Fattah is resolute: "We didn't start with Government money. We're going on." The Administration further intends to help eliminate any bureaucratic impediments to voluntarism. As Reagan noted in last week...
...explaining Reagan's goals, Deaver emphasizes that voluntarism is not a surrogate for slashed federal programs. Says he: "It is something that should stand on its own merits." True enough, but inevitably there are those who see voluntarism as a Reagan antidote to the shocks of budget cutting, and therein lies a problem...
Reagan looks spiffy in public appearances, but his tailor, Frank Mariani of Beverly Hills, insists that he sometimes wears his suits (now $1,000 each) for twelve years. Aide Mike Deaver claims that Reagan's advisers had to pry him out of a 35-year-old topcoat when he first came east. A friend spotted him wearing a new tie recently and asked about it. Reagan said that he knew the narrow widths would come back in style if he kept his old ties long enough...