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...almost as tricky as finding out which staff members will follow James Baker to the Treasury." Stanley also learned that even the most picayune details of pomp get top-level attention. "At one planning meeting," she reports, "I overheard the chief of Inaugural operations tell White House Adviser Michael Deaver how multicolored confetti could be made to stick to a ballroom floor: spread the floor with Coca-Cola...
...idea for a presidential Supertoss, as Reagan's football coin flip was called, originated with Michael Deaver, the soon-to-depart White House deputy chief of staff. It was obviously designed to tie the President to the event around which millions of Americans planned their weekend, Super Bowl XIX in Palo Alto, Calif. For a very few, those plans called for the near impossible: live attendance at both the game and the Flipper's swearing-in ceremony in Washington Monday morning. Congressman and former Buffalo Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, for one, swore he could make it back to Washington aboard...
...weeks ago Deaver cleared the way by announcing his own imminent return to private life. Last Monday he took the switch proposal to the President. Observed Reagan: "It's fascinating. A fascinating idea." Reagan quickly called in Regan, then Baker. He told them that he needed to sleep on the proposal, but in fact he had already made up his mind. Said he to Deaver that day: "They both like the idea, and so do I." The President disclosed the well-kept secret personally on Tuesday morning, with Regan and Baker at his side, and found that he had given...
...anticlimax. Ronald Reagan knows that better than most, and his second Inaugural, a four-day wingding that begins this Friday, will be quieter, more controlled and a good deal less ostentatious than his first. The Inaugural, America's 50th, is being carefully crafted by the soon-to-depart Michael Deaver and the Presidential Inaugural Committee to rein in spending and promote a new egalitarian image for the Administration. Its theme: "We the People . . . An American Celebration...
...could see that there was a vacuum about to happen here. With Clark out, Meese and Deaver going, and Baker having tired blood, something had to give. To use a hockey analogy, the change had to be made on the fly. You don't have the luxury of waiting. So you have to take an experienced person who knows the issues, who understands some of the play. There's no good time to change in an ongoing thing like this...