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...article about the vital role Michael Deaver plays in Reagan's life makes me wonder. Do the American people realize they are voting for Deaver and Nancy to run the country...
East trip, Deaver had two discussions alone with Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. As they talked, Nakasone pulled out a photograph of his house in the mountains. Did Deaver think, the Prime Minister asked hesitantly, that the Reagans would visit him there? Deaver accepted immediately, adding gracefully that Nakasone's wife sounded very much like Nancy Reagan worrying about the Queen of England visiting the Reagan ranch. Then Nakasone turned more serious. He wanted Deaver to tell the President something important: He could not say it publicly now, but after the Japanese election, Nakasone would be ready to tackle head...
This sort of personal message carrying is one of Deaver's key roles, and Reagan's less ideological counselors use him in this way constantly. If the President's mind is set, say White House moderates, and Mike Deaver is not with them against the hardliners, nothing will turn Reagan away from old and comfortably held views. With Deaver on their side, they at least have a chance...
...personal influence, Deaver chooses to behave more like a steward of the presidential image than a shaper of public policy. He is the master of the household, the Lord High Chamberlain of the White House...
...hardness he may have acquired in his many years as a watchdog vanishes when the old trouper gives a vintage performance. Sometimes Deaver, standing in the back of an auditorium, listening one more time to the President using, say, a heroic Scottish ballad to make his pitch, finds his eyes growing moist with a familiar emotion. It is love, of course, a kind of deep filial devotion, and he is filled with it for Ronald Reagan. -By Robert Ajemlan