Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a problem with this lively museum piece, it may lie in the sheer busyness of the place. Over a long weekend, Roberta Flack sings, the U.S. Army Field Band plays The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Presidential Aide Edwin Meese and General William Westmoreland defend embattled political positions, young musicians keep dates with Tchaikovsky under the stars. The resort's daily newspaper warns culture vultures to prepare for Victor Borge, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, discussions of abortion and contraception, and an address by the president of the National Council of Churches. It is not a great surprise...
...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...
...what might have been damaging information about Donovan. TIME has learned that the original discussions between Reagan's transition team and the FBI about the Donovan appointment were conducted on higher levels than had previously been admitted. In early December of 1980 FBI Director William Webster conferred with Edwin Meese, Reagan's transition chief, about Donovan...
...some new organizational constraints he may encounter. He told four American journalists, who flew across the Atlantic with him, that he would be available for a few questions when the supersonic jet landed. These arrangements were countermanded at Dulles International Airport by a White House welcoming party of Edwin Meese, James Baker and William Clark. "But Secretary Shultz wanted to make a statement," protested a reporter. "But Judge Clark does not want him to," responded an aide. And so Shultz...
...picked by Schiavone to head its investigation was Robert Shortley, 60, a onetime FBI agent who retired from the agency in 1955. Shortley is a longtime friend of Edward V. Hickey, director of special support services for the White House and a casual acquaintance of White House Counsellor Edwin Meese. Shortley's wife Maiselle works at the White House as an aide to Morton Blackwell, a liaison with conservative groups. Anthony Dolan, a Reagan speechwriter, is Shortley's brother-in-law; so is John T. ("Terry") Dolan, director of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, which raised more...