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...called troika at the top consists of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy Chief Michael Deaver, Reagan's closest personal aide. Within half an hour of the shooting, the troika set up a kind of command post at the hospital, and once the President was recuperating funneled briefing papers to him (greatly condensed to avoid taxing his strength...
...Daryll Deaver (Hurt) is the night man in a Manhattan office tower; Tony Sokolow (Weaver) is the TV newswoman with whom Daryll has been conducting a one-way, cathode love affair. When they meet at the site of a murder in the building, and he professes knowledge of the crime, she determines to use him as cunningly as any Frank Capra reporter chasing a hot story on the way to falling in love. Daryll is disarmingly direct in telling Tony how much he loves her, has always loved her, and always will. His offer to wax the floors...
...third member of the staff troika, Michael Deaver, joins them. The three advisers have already had their own breakfast meeting and participated in a larger gathering of two dozen staffers, refining plans for the day and the near future. Now Reagan and the trio talk in clipped sentences as they exchange papers. Reagan asks Meese about a pending investigation. "Don't we have to goose them a bit?" Reagan inquires. "Gee, it's been going on for two years...
...little after 5, Reagan thinks about getting his weekly haircut from Barber Milton Pitts. He starts in that direction, then changes his mind and returns to the Oval Office for his daily wind-up session with Deaver, Meese and Baker, each of whom he has seen on and off throughout the day. This meeting is a quick one; the staffers stand around the desk...
...debt. Nameplate medallions were screwed onto the backs of chairs in the Cabinet Room, readying them for their new occupants. An announcement was made that there would be a scheduling meeting in the Roosevelt Room. "Where is the Roosevelt Room?" someone asked. Shirley Moore, secretary to Top Aide Michael Deaver, received her first phone call. The caller wanted Hamilton Jordan. "He's not here any more," she said. The caller asked for Jack Watson then. "No, they're all gone now," she said. "We're the new folks in town, and we're in charge...