Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dinner date with Senator Paul Laxalt when the telephone rang in his Plaza suite. The caller was William Casey, Reagan's campaign director. Could Kissinger come over to Casey's rooms in the Plaza? When he got there, he was welcomed by Casey, Reagan Aide Michael Deaver and Edwin Meese, Reagan's chief of staff. Quite succinctly, Meese explained that Reagan very much wanted Ford on the ticket and asked if Kissinger would help persuade Ford to consider running. In fact, Meese noted, time was getting short and perhaps Kissinger should go directly to see Ford...
...purge by Sears, are once again assuming key roles in the campaign. Lyn Nofziger, who returned in mid-June, is communications director. He is a shade too outspoken and irreverent for Nancy Reagan's taste, but his bluff candor appeals to the traveling correspondents. This month Mike Deaver returns to become the top aide on tour with Reagan, freeing Meese to devote more time to organizational problems. Deaver will keep Reagan briefed, a conspicuous gap in the campaign to date...
...been laid off. Last year 672 car dealers went out of business, and the number may rise in 1980. One reason is that dealers are being crushed by the high cost of borrowing to maintain the inventories of unsold cars that they do have. Ford Motor Co. Economist John Deaver figures that dealers have to pay more than $100 a month in interest charges for every car in their lots...
...nightmare. He contended that the Californians kept going behind his back to Reagan, who was "a very kind human being" and did not crack down the way he should have. People were hired and money was spent without Sears' approval, he said. He charged that Nofziger and Mike Deaver, whom Sears had also removed, lavished $2 million on an unproductive direct mail appeal, two questionable fund raisers and an announcement dinner. But the winners of the power struggle replied that Sears squandered money by refusing to delegate authority or share his ideas with others...
...aides out of the campaign. As finance director, Lyn Nofziger had argued with Sears' decision to start the campaign slowly and to replace some Reagan loyalists from 1976 with more moderate organizers. When fund raising lagged and Nofziger became more combative, Sears forced him to quit. Aide Mike Deaver then took charge of money raising, but Sears resented Deaver's independence. To spare Reagan the pain of choosing between the two, Deaver resigned...