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Nancy Reagan's nudges have, if anything, served to move the President from the far right toward the political center. Within the Administration, she has consistently allied herself with the moderates against the conservative ideologues. It is not that she is a crypto-liberal. Rather, like Deaver and Baker, she has instincts attuned more to public relations than to undiluted principle. More than anything else, she wants the public to continue adoring her husband. Maintaining consensus has inevitably meant a tempering of the original Reaganite agenda: the New Right's fractious social issues have been down-played at the White...
...dozen phone conversations a day, usually at least one each with Deaver and Press Secretary Sheila Tate. She must oversee White House Chef Henry Haller and his helpers, as well as her personal staff of 24. Among those two dozen are six top aides, who generally meet with her every week as a group: Chief of Staff James Rosebush, Tate, Social Secretary Gahl Hodges, Personal Assistant Elaine Crispen, Projects Director Ann Wrobleski and Marty Coyne, director of her advance team...
...boss, the First Lady is a stern taskmaster. Behind her back, some underlings mockingly call her Nana. When traveling, she has members of the entourage paged at restaurants to ask trivial questions, and phones them at home with petty requests. Even Deaver is cowed by the First Lady: last year, having incompletely quit smoking, he felt obliged to hide his cigarettes from her. A West Wing official who gets along well with her admits that she is sometimes charmless with her subordinates. "She is a demanding person in that she knows what she wants, she wants the best...
Several of Reagan's aides, however, have felt a hankering to move on. Last week it was announced that two of the President's closest California confidants would soon take their leave: Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver wants to bolster his bank account, and Interior Secretary William Clark plans to ride back to his 880-acre ranch near San Luis Obispo. Two others in the California contingent are also poised to shift. After a bruising inquiry into his finances, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese was renominated last week to succeed Attorney General William French Smith, thus bringing Smith closer...
...Deaver's departure is perhaps the most critical. For the past 18 years, he has enjoyed an almost familial intimacy with the First Couple, acquiring along the way an unsurpassed talent for packaging Reagan in glowing, telegenic images. His most recent brainstorm: asking ABC to include the President, by remote broadcast, in the opening ceremonies of the Super Bowl...