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...Ronald Reagan's top advisers, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, was conspicuously absent from the tight-knit trio of aides that met two weeks ago to determine Alexander Haig's fate. While White House Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief Michael Deaver and National Security Adviser William Clark discussed the Secretary of State's resignation with Reagan, Meese was kept in the dark. Indeed, the man once regarded as the "deputy President" did not learn of Haig's departure until he returned...
...Reagan was vacationing in California last summer, Meese decided not to awaken him when U.S. jet fighters shot down two Libyan planes over the Gulf of Sidra, thereby creating the impression that Reagan was not running the shop. During the President's vacations this summer, either Baker or Deaver is set to help Meese at the California White House. Meese was also responsible in part for getting the President to endorse tax-exempt status for private segregated schools, a policy that Reagan had to abandon after a loud public uproar...
...Haig still had not made up his mind whether to go through with the resignation. Overnight Thursday, however, Reagan evidently did come to a hard-and-fast decision: this time he would give Haig no chance to back out. Shortly after he met with Baker, Clark and Deaver midmorning Friday, Reagan had drafted and signed an acceptance of Haig's letter of resignation, which he had still not seen...
...lunch, which began at 12:10 Friday, was an odd affair. Of the dozen or so people attending, only Reagan, Baker, Clark and Deaver knew that Haig was finished. Says one of those four: "We had to sit through that lunch knowing what was about to happen, and knowing that Haig didn't even know." Haig's demeanor, however, struck most of those attending as exceptionally quiet and peaceful, possibly because he had made up his mind to go through with his resignation...
Hickey claims that by March 1981 he had concluded that he did not need Manuel's services. TIME has learned that the hiring was actually scrapped by Hickey's boss, Michael Deaver, deputy chief of staff at the White House. Deaver was annoyed that Hickey had apparently secured Meese's approval to employ Man uel; jealous of his bureaucratic turf, Deaver ordered the hiring stopped...