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...second term would entail major changes in personnel as well as policy, and for a President as heavily dependent on his staff as Reagan is, the reshuffle would be extremely consequential. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, a staunch conservative, is already leaving the White House; Reagan formally nominated him last week to be Attorney General in the wake of the resignation of William French Smith, once the President's personal lawyer. The other two members of the "troika" that constituted a kind of inner Government are expected to depart soon after Election Day: White House Chief of Staff James Baker...
...though some are only a few paces away from the Oval Office. He is vague about which underlings do what: an aide suggests that Reagan would be hard pressed to describe with any precision how Chief of Staff James Baker's responsibilities differed from those of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese before Meese was nominated to be Attorney General. (Baker is responsible for press and congressional relations; Meese was nominally in charge of domestic policy coordination.) After three years of almost daily contact with Reagan, one White House aide was not sure that the President knew his first name...
Last year, on a fine October Sunday morning in New Orleans-the day after Edwin Edwards was elected to his third four-year term as Governor of Louisiana-the conversation over breakfast at Brennan's turned to campaign debts. In all, Edwards had spent roughly what the U.S. had paid for the Louisiana Purchase. About $4.4 million in loans from contributors remained outstanding. Somebody suggested taking everybody to South America in return for forgiveness of the loan. Somebody else suggested France. Two weeks ago everybody went to France...
...controversy over the commission first erupted last May, when President Reagan replaced three members with appointees who shared his opposition to racial quotas and busing. "We wanted our own people," said White House Counsellor Edwin Meese. Two of the sacked members, Mary Frances Berry and Blandina Cardenas Ramirez, sued in federal court for an injunction forbidding their removal, arguing that the action violated the commission's legal status as an independent body. More than 30 Senators and 19 Representatives lined up to sponsor a bipartisan resolution to have commission members appointed by Congress rather than by the President. After...
...basement of a dusty landscape: lurid sunset over a forest-girt lake somewhere in the Northeast. Nobody wanted it. In the end Sherman Lee, the infallible pontiff (now retired) of the Cleveland Museum, bought it for $20,000. The picture was Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860, by Frederic Edwin Church, a work now thought to be one of the crucial American images, the very essence of Yankee emotion in the face of natural sublimity, the icon before which many people (up to a few months ago) would have sacrificed James Watt on a stake. No doubt it would make...