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Reagan added further to his problems by dispatching longtime Aide Michael Deaver to West Germany to find a suitable concentration camp or synagogue for the President to pay his respects to the Nazi victims. Deaver, who had directed the arrangements for the visit from the start, swept into Bonn with an entourage of 20, leading some members of Kohl's staff to complain privately that Deaver travels with more aides than the Chancellor does. While many West Germans view Kohl as a genial but often bumbling politician, they see the men around Reagan as undignified novices who are ill-equipped...
Regan's organization of the staff has some advantages over the "troika" arrangement that prevailed during most of Reagan's first term. During those years authority was shared by Baker, who has taken Regan's old job at Treasury; Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, now Attorney General; and Michael Deaver, who now heads his own public relations firm. Decision making is faster under Regan, and backstairs White House quarrels have generally stopped...
...have any legislative strategy for more than about three weeks ahead. More generally, one long time Reagan aide asserts, "In the first term, if there was a need, say, for a sophisticated three-month plan for how to use the President's time to achieve some particular goals, Mike Deaver would take four or five people and go at it half the day. That just doesn't happen...
During Reagan's first term, top White House Aides Michael Deaver and James Baker proved so adroit at polishing the President's image that any shortcomings within the press office were overlooked. Chief of Staff Donald Regan and Director of Communications Patrick Buchanan are more prone to bluntness. Though Speakes' access to senior presidential aides has improved over the past few months, he has not developed the public relations finesse of a Baker or Deaver. His fuse remains shorter than his good ole boy demeanor suggests. He also allows himself to be annoyed too easily by those correspondents who seem...
...also attempts to keep its speakers politically balanced, McLaughlin said. Deaver and Kolbe are Republicans, while Edwards is a Democrat...