Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third member of the staff troika, Michael Deaver, joins them. The three advisers have already had their own breakfast meeting and participated in a larger gathering of two dozen staffers, refining plans for the day and the near future. Now Reagan and the trio talk in clipped sentences as they exchange papers. Reagan asks Meese about a pending investigation. "Don't we have to goose them a bit?" Reagan inquires. "Gee, it's been going on for two years...
...little after 5, Reagan thinks about getting his weekly haircut from Barber Milton Pitts. He starts in that direction, then changes his mind and returns to the Oval Office for his daily wind-up session with Deaver, Meese and Baker, each of whom he has seen on and off throughout the day. This meeting is a quick one; the staffers stand around the desk...
...debt. Nameplate medallions were screwed onto the backs of chairs in the Cabinet Room, readying them for their new occupants. An announcement was made that there would be a scheduling meeting in the Roosevelt Room. "Where is the Roosevelt Room?" someone asked. Shirley Moore, secretary to Top Aide Michael Deaver, received her first phone call. The caller wanted Hamilton Jordan. "He's not here any more," she said. The caller asked for Jack Watson then. "No, they're all gone now," she said. "We're the new folks in town, and we're in charge...
When Campaign Manager John Sears was determined to get Mike Deaver, one of the closest friends of both the Reagans, out of the 1980 organization, Reagan let it happen. He said he did not like it, but he went along anyway, choosing pragmatism over loyalty. There are other examples of cool calculation that seem out of place in what is patently a good heart. The feeling one takes from a conversation with Reagan?and it is very quiet and faint?is that his geniality is equal to his fears. What, specifically, he is afraid of is a secret...
...White House posts, the job of chief domestic affairs adviser will probably go to Martin Anderson, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and an expert on welfare. A flexible conservative, Anderson played a major part in persuading Nixon to establish the volunteer army. Michael Deaver, another trusted aide, will be given a post that keeps him close to the new President and allows him to monitor Reagan's public performances...