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With a little champagne in the Rose Garden and a good deal of sentiment from Ronald Reagan, the White House troika marched into the history books last week to become another chapter in the arcane world of staffing and running the presidency. Meese, Baker, Deaver, sounding -- and often acting -- like an infield in the American League, now will be part of the lore that includes Nicolay and Hay, who served Lincoln, Colonel House, who advised Wilson, Kennedy's Irish Mafia and the infamous Berlin Wall, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Nixon's unfortunate duo who ended up in jail...
...Queluz Palace last Friday, a chipper Reagan held a press conference ) to mark the end of his European journey. White House Aide Michael Deaver had called it "without question the hardest trip of his presidency," and Reagan admitted "some anguishing moments" along with "many highs." Declared he: "We are returning home, mission accomplished...
...Germany on V-E day, May 8. Later, without consult- ing Kohl, the White House announced that the President would address the European Parliament instead. The seeming ineptitude surrounding the Reagan plans is particularly surprising since it is the final project being handled by Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, the President's usually masterly impresario, be- fore he leaves the White House for private life...
...parley last fall with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Says a White House aide: "Reagan's notion of personal diplomacy took off from that meeting." He was nudged along by Wife Nancy, a believer in the irresistible magic of her husband's personality, and by master Image Maker Michael Deaver. Both felt deeply that Reagan's warmonger image...
...Robert McFarlane gathered in the Oval Office to discuss the possibility of a Moscow trip. Shultz set forth the pros and cons of an impromptu summit, but Reagan had already made up his mind during earlier meetings with White House Chief of Staff Don Regan and Close Friend Michael Deaver. The decision was not to go, mainly because there was insufficient time to prepare for a meeting with Gorbachev and little prospect of fulfilling the high expectations such a trip would inevitably create...