Word: deavere
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...three nonetheless are distinct personalities who have carved out different niches for themselves. Meese, a former prosecutor who rarely shows strain or annoyance, prides himself on being the principal policy man. He summarizes issues and possible choices at Cabinet meetings and in sessions with Reagan. Says Deaver: "He is superb at articulating options, synthesizing views." Meese runs meetings with wry humor. At one session the troika had with several Cabinet members, all participants agreed, following a wearying debate, on a paper that summarized positions Reagan would take with Third World leaders at the North-South conference in Cancun. But Secretary...
Serious dissension within the troika, in turn, could be paralyzing to the Reagan Administration. Below the top group, talent is disquietingly thin, even though the staff is deceptively large. There are about 350 people on the White House staff; about 40 report to Deaver and 25 to Meese. That most of the others are in Baker's jurisdiction is no accurate guide to his influence...
...White House aides have shown drive and ability. Assistants to the President Craig Fuller, a Deaver protégé who now works under Meese, and Richard Darman, a Baker choice, operate so closely with the troika, passing policy recommendations up and presidential instructions down, that the five in effect constitute a powerful group that has no name and no official existence. Fuller uses an elaborate computerized tracking system to keep tab on all issues moving through the White House machinery. Darman, who first suggested the Legislative Strategy Group, has made himself the master of all paper going to Reagan; he does...
...lunches alone with the President almost every week. At those sessions, says Meese, Bush offers advice on foreign policy and defense that Reagan values highly. But on domestic policy, the word in Washington is that the way to sway a presidential decision is to lobby Meese, Baker or Deaver, and maybe Stockman?but not Bush...
...people who retire at age 62. It was rushed to the White House on a weekend so that it could be discussed at a Cabinet meeting Monday morning, and an Administration position could then be presented at congressional hearings on Social Security. Meese and Baker read it hurriedly; Deaver apparently never...