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...Michael Deaver was on safari in Kenya last week. But back inside the Beltway in Washington, he was the hunted, not the hunter. In a rebuff to the former White House aide, a House panel voted 17 to 0 to recommend that the independent counsel investigating Deaver's lobbying activities examine charges that he committed perjury in his May testimony before the subcommittee...
...White House team in charge of image making, started under Michael Deaver, is almost too skillful at exploiting the media in order to make policy points. Deaver's successor, William Henkel, orchestrates presidential photo opportunities in which the President acts out little dramas on location, playlets of policy. In March, for example, Reagan "dropped by" the State Department to view a collection of Soviet and other East bloc weapons captured from the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The point was made. Reagan overrides the print press and captures the electronic image-making tools. The image, without the mediation of language, feeds directly...
...Senators who might normally be inclined to slip in an amendment or two to protect favored interest groups instead extolled the virtues of tax fairness as they preened for the folks back home. With public sentiment already riled by the influence-peddling scandal surrounding former White House Aide Michael Deaver, it was an inopportune time for lawmakers to appear beholden to lobbyists on the evening news. As Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole dryly warned his colleagues last week, "I wouldn't want to be offering any tax breaks...
...tangled affairs of former White House Aide Michael Deaver took a few more twists last week. Whitney North Seymour Jr., a former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, was named by a special three-judge panel as the independent counsel to investigate allegations of misconduct against him. Seymour was instructed to investigate all of Deaver's suspect dealings and not be limited to the two cited by the Justice Department: Deaver's approach last summer to then White House National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane on behalf of a tax break for Puerto Rico, and his participation in a meeting last October with...
...policy vacuum that has permitted the American economy to career close to the fiscal brink have already received more attention (and shekels from Newsweek), than they deserve. What hasn't gotten so much remark is the character of the man himself. Perhaps people are tired of Stockman, perhaps Michael Deaver's shenanigans have supplied everyone's sleaze fix, but Triumph is not only the tale of history's greatest fiscal fiasco, it's an extraordinary summary of the political degeneration of a generation, a moral and institutional slackness that characterizes politics the Harvard...