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...Deaver and Meese are the immediate cases in point. Nothing the two have done has proven to be illegal, but both men have engaged in practices that, at the very least, betray a lack sensitivity to the ethical requirements of high office. One is hard-pressed to give the two the benefit of the doubt given the long list of sleeze that preceeds them: Hugel, Reed, Donovan, Wick, Allen...
...Ironic twist of fate that Deaver announced his resignation as the White House's deputy chief of staff on the very day a Wall Street Journal article detailed how his financial picture, which he much lamented a few years back, has since "brightened considerably." The article noted somewhat whimsically that Deaver's wife Carolyn had become an "overnight success" in the public relations field despite no previous experience, gaining clients like the Republican National Committee. A friend of Deaver's, it was also reported, had arranged for Deaver to make a $10,000 profit on a money-losing real estate...
...this would probably raise nary an eyebrow were it not for the fact that it follows a wholly unremarked-upon--except through the column of William Safire--incident involving Deaver early on in the Administration. Deaver, it seems, contracted with a book publisher to attach his name to a diet book--a move that could eventually net him several hundred thousand dollars. Thus Deaver became, as Safire pointed out, the first White House official ever to exploit "his public position for substantial commercial gain while still in office...
Nevertheless, Deaver has said he is leaving public office because he cannot live comfortably on his $72,000 White House stipend...
...least Deaver is now, for whatever reasons, leaving the Administration. Ed Meese has shown a similar disregard for the standards of high government service and now he is to be rewarded with the office that is supposed to most symbolize those standards of fair-play and honor--the Attorney Generalship...