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...York Magazine reported today that former Reagan spinmeister Michael Deaver has been advising Gingrich's staff. The magazine quotes Deaver, who was convicted of perjury in 1987 in connection with an influence-peddling case, as saying he had met with people around Gingrich several times "to strategize...
...true that more negative press surrounded the Reagan administration than currently plagues the Clinton administration. But during the Reagan administration, 222 of his officials--including Deaver, Nofziger and Weinberger to name only a few--did undergo legal investigations...
Although the FTC warns consumers to beware of any company seeking advance fees, even skepticism is sometimes no protection. Randall Deaver, 25, an unemployed sheet-metal worker in Fort Worth, Texas, was leery of promises that he would have a job in Cancun, Mexico, in three months. When he could find no complaints on file with the Better Business Bureau, he and a friend sent a $295 joint fee. All they got for it was the runaround. "I figured it was scam, but I took a chance," says Deaver with a sigh. "The moral is, of course, if it sounds...
Reagan, 80, had a little more trouble hearing than his aides remembered. A couple of shouted questions puzzled him, and he leaned to Nancy for clarification. "Nothing," she said with a mischievous smile. "You can't answer." Mike Deaver, a Reagan friend and counselor for so long, looked on and mused, "Without a Nancy there never would have been a President Reagan...
Jackson maintains that unlike Barry, Deaver was not a public official when he committed his crimes and that this accounts for the difference. But many experts find the disparity troubling. Says American University law professor Herman Schwartz: "Jackson gives Deaver, who was tampering with the Constitution, community service while he gives Barry hard time for being a coke head." To many observers, the real problem is not that Barry's sentence was too harsh -- he could have been imprisoned for up to a year -- but that North, Deaver and others got off too lightly...