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...Deaver's apparent blandness and wry manner make him an inconspicuous figure. But he is demanding, a worrier, and associates watch his moods carefully. He tends to play favorites. "He falls in and out of love with people," says one friend. Deaver professes surprise that no one challenges his judgments at the big scheduling meetings he conducts. But no one wants to cross him. A graduate of San Jose State, he is envious of the Ivy League polish of types like Chief of Staff James Baker, whose skills he admires enormously. He is captivated by the trappings of power...
...views help determine how power is distributed across the Administration. It was Deaver, reinforced by Nancy Rea gan, who installed Baker as Chief of Staff. Later it was Deaver again, this time with Mrs. Reagan's delayed support, who worked on Reagan to get rid of Secretary of State Alexander Haig. It was also Deaver who had pushed for William Clark as National Security Adviser and then, realizing he had made a mistake, turned on him, once more with Nancy Reagan's approval. Today Clark will not speak to Deaver and acknowledges his greeting only when Reagan...
...Cabinet officers Deaver has the good sense to tread lightly with are Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William Casey. Both have their own ties to Reagan. When Deaver once tried to talk Weinberger into going along with the President on budget cuts, the canny Defense chief knew just how to handle the pressure. Have the President tell me himself, Weinberger countered, sure that Reagan would avoid any blunt confrontation. Deaver dropped...
...Deaver's role often puts him over his head on matters of great substance. Nonetheless he somehow forces decisions to be made. When the Israeli bombing of Beirut dragged on ruinously in 1982, Deaver got Reagan alone. The attacks had become repugnant, he told the President with some passion. Children's limbs were being blown off, and Reagan was the only man on earth who could stop it. The President listened intently, telling Deaver that he too had been agonizing about it. Then Reagan summoned Secretary of State George Shultz and put in a call to Israeli Prime...
Sometimes Deaver's influence turns up in unexpected ways. When he traveled to Japan in 1983 to lay out Reagan...