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...first four years, culminating in his landslide re-election. Many of the aides were Californians who had served him well in Sacramento when he was Governor more than a decade ago. Edwin Meese expects to be confirmed within a month as Attorney General. Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, the closest adviser on social and personal matters to both Reagan and the First Lady, is expected to take a Washington public relations job. Attorney General William French Smith and Interior Secretary William Clark are leaving Government service to return to California. Going to the Treasury Department with Baker...
...curious sense of drift and lack of drive at the White House. Declared one former White House aide: "Since the election there has been no energy, no enthusiasm and no firm game plan." The staff changes would have been far less disruptive back in November, which is when Baker, Deaver and Nancy Reagan had urged the President to clean house. Instead of taking the initiative, however, Reagan characteristically let each aide...
...clear that the collegial style of staff organization, in which Baker had ultimately emerged first among equals, had been breaking down. Meese had been sidetracked by his confirmation troubles and the investigations of his personal business dealings with friends who later gained federal jobs. Baker was burning out, and Deaver felt pinched on his Government salary...
...subject a few days before last Christmas, when Baker visited his office. "I'm going to make you an offer you can't turn down," Regan said. "Let's trade places." Baker said he was receptive to the idea but would not push it; he insisted that Deaver be sounded out about whether he might be interested in the top White House staff job. Regan took the matter up with Deaver on Dec. 26, saying, "Look, Jim wants a new challenge and so do I. We want to know if you're taking yourself out of the running...
...Deaver, 46, has long made no secret of wanting to return to private life, saying he found it difficult to live in Washington on his White House salary (currently $72,000 a year). His resignation came on the day that a Wall Street Journal article raised questions about the propriety of his wife allegedly earning more than $50,000 a year as a public relations consultant handling some clients who have dealt with her husband at the White House. Chief of Staff James Baker insisted that "there is absolutely no connection" between the timing of Deaver's exit...