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...sign that Reagan means business, the voluntarism project at the White House has been placed under the supervision of one of his top aides, Michael Deaver. Deaver foresees a two-pronged effort: first, to promote successful private-sector models of social service. Reagan cited a Philadelphia ghetto shelter for 500 street youths founded by David and Falaka Fattah. In spite of losing some federal funding, Falaka Fattah is resolute: "We didn't start with Government money. We're going on." The Administration further intends to help eliminate any bureaucratic impediments to voluntarism. As Reagan noted in last week...
Reagan looks spiffy in public appearances, but his tailor, Frank Mariani of Beverly Hills, insists that he sometimes wears his suits (now $1,000 each) for twelve years. Aide Mike Deaver claims that Reagan's advisers had to pry him out of a 35-year-old topcoat when he first came east. A friend spotted him wearing a new tie recently and asked about it. Reagan said that he knew the narrow widths would come back in style if he kept his old ties long enough...
Aides to the two other members of Reagan's "triumverate" of high-level White House staff advisers--Craig L. Fuller, chief aide to Edwin Meese III, the president's counselor, and Joseph W. Canzeri, an assistant to Michael Deaver, the White House deputy chief of staff--also received promotions...
...routines: every morning National Security Adviser Richard Allen pre pares a 20-page national security briefing in Washington where it is scrambled, telecopied and then unscrambled at the communications trailer behind the Reagan ranch house. Shortly before 8 a.m. the briefing paper is ready for the President. Aide Mike Deaver, who has scanned it, phones the ranch from the Santa Barbara Biltmore. Almost all information that reaches the President goes through Deaver, who screens out everything but the essentials. They speak for 15 to 20 minutes in the morning and again at lunchtime. Reagan approves a few appointments, mostly routine...
...Biltmore, the executive offices of the President appear to be open for business, in spite of their luxurious location in three white adobe cottages beside a putting green. Two Marine guards in full dress uniform, including white gloves, indicate that Cottage Eight is the heart of the operation. Deaver explains that originally the Marines were posted for security, but now "they remind everyone that we're not on vacation...