Word: deavere
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...firmly told his aides, who had proposed presidential visits to Alaska and Hawaii, that he has earned an uninterrupted vacation. Only a doctor and a military aide are at the ranch with Reagan. Chief of Staff James Baker will spend time alone fishing in Texas and Assistant Michael Deaver will retreat to the New England coast. Only Counsellor Edwin Meese will remain on duty, splitting his time between the White House and California. Says one aide: "The President wants time to himself." His only scheduled activity is a short visit to Los Angeles for a meeting with advisers on defense...
...Connor flew to Washington on June 29 for a breakfast the next morning with Smith in a secret hotel hideaway. That same day she met with Reagan's senior staff, including the troika of Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver. On July 1 she was invited to the Oval Office by Reagan. The 10 a.m. meeting was unannounced and, like countless other private presidential meetings, went unnoticed by reporters. She moved quickly to break any tension in the talks by reminding the President that they had met a decade ago, when he was Governor of California...
...group of Reagan's top advisers assembled in the Oval Office for an hour and 15 minutes. Present were Haig, Allen, Vice President George Bush, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey and the President's troika of Aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Mike Deaver. They reached a consensus with little argument: Israel should be penalized...
...class marshall and long-time Republican activist, worked in the Washington office of Decision Making, Inc., a polling and research firm run by master Reagan strategist Richard L. Wirthlin. Forman "informally" discussed with Wirthlin the idea of Reagan's appearing at commencement. Wirthlin apparently brought the matter up with Deaver's office, which handled some aspects of presidential planning and appearances. The response was encouraging. Despite the assassination attempt which wounded Reagan on March 30, the president planned to accept invitations from several universities, and an invitation from the Kennedy School might well have a chance. That word filtered back...
Between April 15 and April 28, Schmidt made "several" phone calls to a White House official in Deaver's office whose name he does not recall, and issued what he said constituted a formal oral invitation. Not just Schmidt, recalls one well-placed source, but "a lot of people made phone calls" in an attempt to gauge how genuine the White House's interest was. At least one participant in the process became quite frustrated, believing that Harvard did not want to risk being rejected and thus held off on an invitation until it was too late...