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Pity, if you can, Michael Deaver. Last week he surrendered the White House pass that Ronald Reagan had allowed him to keep when he left the Administration a year ago. He has stopped receiving the President's daily- appointments schedule. For fear of embarrassing the First Family, he says, he no longer feels free to use the White House tennis court. Deaver has also had to break off negotiations for an $18 million sale of his consulting firm to a British public relations conglomerate, Saatchi & Saatchi. And if that were not enough bad news, the General Accounting Office reported last...
...former White House deputy chief of staff turned high-priced lobbyist continues to maintain steadfastly that he has not abused his close relationship with Reagan. But at week's end, when Deaver tried to make his way into the Capitol to defend his actions before a closed-door session of a congressional subcommittee, he found himself at the center of a rising storm over influence peddling in Washington. Reporters mobbed him, cameramen jostled him, and flashing strobe lights so blinded him that he walked right past the committee-room door. "After five months of rumor, leaks and innuendo," Deaver bravely...
...great irony of the Deaver affair is that Reagan, whose trust is being abused, is probably less interested in greater wealth than any of the past seven Presidents, with the exception of Jimmy Carter. So, about now, Reagan would do himself, Mike Deaver and the rest of the nation a great favor if he would state in his compelling style his own code of public ethics. That code has inspired a rare public trust so far, but it has to serve him until his last...
...Saatchis have their eyes on Washington as well as Madison Avenue. They are negotiating a deal to buy the lobbying firm that former White House Staffer Michael Deaver started only eleven months ago. Deaver, who has set his price at $18 million, would continue to run the firm. That may give the Saatchis, who are already public relations advisers to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a solid link to the Reagan Administration...
...another development Thursday, a presidential spokesman confirmed that Deaver, a former White House aide and now lobbyist for several foreign countries, daily gets a copy of President Reagan's detailed schedule...