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Worse, Regan failed to show Nancy the kind of attention she had grown used to from former White House Aides Michael Deaver and James Baker, to whom she spoke several times a day by telephone. Regan simply did not have the patience and was not astute enough to realize that talking to Nancy was a part of his job. Says one Reagan intimate: "We all know that she isn't the easiest person to deal with. Regan never understood how to handle her. It has a lot to do with how he interacts with women." The chief of staff became...
...Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, whose attorneys filed suit in U.S. District Court to stop Walsh's probe. Their argument: the broad mandate given to the court-appointed special prosecutor is a violation of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers. A day later, attorneys for former Reagan Aide Michael Deaver, under investigation for his lobbying activities after his departure from the White House in May 1985, used an almost identical ploy to halt indictments being sought against him by Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. The challenges are more than just delaying tactics; in the words of one Justice Department...
Though North's suit has not interrupted Walsh's probe, Deaver won at least a temporary victory. Seymour was ready to ask a grand jury to indict Deaver on four counts of perjury stemming from his testimony before a House subcommittee and grand jury last year. As a courtesy, Seymour telephoned Deaver's attorneys on Tuesday to inform them of the impending indictments. But Deaver's lawyers, led by former Nixon Attorney Herbert ("Jack") Miller, beat Seymour to the courthouse the following morning. After hearing their arguments, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued an order blocking any indictments until...
...Branch," says University of Texas Law Professor Harold Bruff. "The courts will recognize that need." The Administration, meanwhile, is in an awkward position. Attorney General Edwin Meese and other Reagan Justice Department officials have publicly opposed the special prosecutor, yet they may find it difficult to support North and Deaver without opening themselves to charges of fostering a cover-up. Says one Justice Department official: "In this political climate, I don't think we can side with them as much as we want...
During the first four years, when the White House staff was run by the Meese- Deaver-Baker troika, a combine widely hailed by the press for its success, Speakes was cut out of the inner loop and often operated in ignorance of events, for which the same group condemned him. "I fought my way off the floor," recalled Speakes. "When I finally got into the meetings, I had a seat in the corner. When I finally got up to the table, I didn't have any papers or charts...