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...turnabout was startling. A mere four weeks ago, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, self-assured and articulate, fended off hostile questions from Democratic Senators at his confirmation hearings and emerged confident that he would quickly become Attorney General of the U.S. But last week a Justice Department investigation into his tangled finances was under way, the press was nipping at his heels, and Meese, first bewildered and then combative, was asking that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate "the misrepresentations and baseless charges" against him. The probe could take months, delaying and possibly dooming his confirmation...
...White House strategists and Reagan's Senate allies last week as they grappled with Meese's deteriorating situation. The relatively routine confirmation was derailed when the Washington Post disclosed that the nominee had failed to report a $15,000 interest-free loan from a California friend, Edwin...
...Thomas Barrack, who spent $70,000 of his own money to help Meese find a buyer for his California house in the summer of 1982 and became Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in December 1982; Gordon Luce, chairman of Great American Federal Savings Bank in San Diego, and Edwin Gray, a former senior vice president of the bank, which permitted Meese to fall 15 months behind on mortgage loans of more than $400,000. Luce became alternate U.S. delegate to the United Nations in September 1982; Gray became chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank board...
...close friends gathered round when the awful impact of Edwin Thomas' $15,000 loan to Ursula Meese began to sink in. "I blew it," Ed Meese kept repeating in a low tone. "I completely forgot about it." At one point, when her husband left the room to make a phone call, Ursula broke down and wept. Never before had the friends seen Ursula Meese cry. "I've done this to him," she sobbed, "and he doesn't deserve...
...River-has been carried live, often gavel to gavel, on local cable and radio outlets, and nationally for two to three hours a day on Cable News Network. On most days CNN has accorded the case air time comparable to that given the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Nominee Edwin Meese or the Democratic presidential campaign. The network's executives say that they are covering the trial for its news value and to educate the public about how rape victims are treated in court. But CNN cuts away to other news during routine evidence, then lingers over lurid recollections...