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...nutty faddist hoping to cash in on the national hunger for books that help you get thin? Well, not quite. The man with such readiness to demonstrate his exercise techniques (in addition to body rolls, he suggests two types of sit-ups), and with imminent publishing plans, is Michael Deaver, the normally discreet and least noticeable of President Reagan's top aides. He recently lost 33 lbs. (from 183 lbs. on his 5-ft. 7-in. frame). He intends to reveal the details of his White House regimen for tightening belts, even as the federal deficit grows ever fatter...
...Deaver is serious about his desire to show "people who have desk jobs, like me, people who are sedentary, how they can get slim and stay slim forever." The money must also have seemed tasty. Deaver, whose salary is $60,600 a year, was to get a $45,000 advance from the publisher. The bad news: the White House has a rule that no staff member can earn more than 15% of his salary a year from outside work. The good news: royalties are not covered by the rules. Deaver could yet end up in Fat City...
...consider himself a success. Accordingly, he shows no trace of the driven behavior that manifested itself in Richard Nixon's dark humors, Lyndon Johnson's frequent tirades and Jimmy Carter's agonizing self-doubt. Reagan feels no need to brood alone over decisions. Says Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver: "I think it is interesting that he does not have a hideaway office like Nixon and Carter." The intensity of his conservative tenets frees him from worry over whether his decisions have been correct. Says one key aide: "I have never heard him say, 'I was wrong...
...great emphasis on the policy salesman's role?as indeed a President must, although it should hardly be his top priority. They claim, for example, that Reagan spends more time than any other modern President writing and editing his own remarks. A corollary to this stress on communication, notes Deaver, is that "you should never try to make him do something he doesn't believe in, because if you do that, we will fail. The greatest asset this Administration has is Ronald Reagan; if he can't communicate his positions, we are in real trouble. And if he doesn...
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