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When Campaign Manager John Sears was determined to get Mike Deaver, one of the closest friends of both the Reagans, out of the 1980 organization, Reagan let it happen. He said he did not like it, but he went along anyway, choosing pragmatism over loyalty. There are other examples of cool calculation that seem out of place in what is patently a good heart. The feeling one takes from a conversation with Reagan?and it is very quiet and faint?is that his geniality is equal to his fears. What, specifically, he is afraid of is a secret...
...White House posts, the job of chief domestic affairs adviser will probably go to Martin Anderson, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and an expert on welfare. A flexible conservative, Anderson played a major part in persuading Nixon to establish the volunteer army. Michael Deaver, another trusted aide, will be given a post that keeps him close to the new President and allows him to monitor Reagan's public performances...
Meeting until nearly midnight at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel after the dinner, Reagan's staff argued again whether to debate Carter without Anderson. Earlier in the discussions, Aides Mike Deaver, Bill Timmons, Lyn Nofziger and Richard Wirthlin were all to some degree opposed. Undecided or uncommitted were Stuart Spencer, Bill Casey and Ed Meese. Favoring acceptance were James Baker and Ed Gray. Now the sentiment shifted and a consensus for accepting an invitation to debate was reached. Learning of his staffs recommendation, Reagan readily concurred...
Like Meese, Deaver is no deep thinker, but he is a levelheaded staff man with a reputation as an effective problem solver...
...have a lot of values in common," says Deaver of Reagan. "He knows, like my wife knows, that I have nothing else in mind. I want him to succeed...