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...that he needed to tone down his public image, arguing that it was hurting the President. Apparently unwilling to encourage any potential challengers, Regan has limited the power of the few veteran hands he has recruited to the White House, including Political Adviser Ed Rollins and Legislative Strategist Max Friedersdorf. Both plan to leave before the end of the year. With Budget Director David Stockman already gone and White House Counsel Fred Fielding expected to depart, the quality of advice reaching the President is slipping...
...last week Dole knew he had to put a full budget resolution to a vote quickly; ballots on individual provisions would shred the package beyond recognition. He put the deal together with the help of White House Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf and Budget Director David Stockman, who spent nearly all his time during the final week in Dole's three-room office suite. They put through a series of calls to Reagan's traveling party in Lisbon--White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan took most of them--informing the President's aides what was happening...
...Wednesday afternoon Stockman transmitted the numbers to Lisbon by electronic facsimile, and Dole, Domenici and Friedersdorf placed a this-or- nothing conference call to Regan. The chief of staff took the news to Reagan as he was dressing for dinner with the President of Portugal. "Is this the best deal we can get?" asked Reagan. His chief of staff replied that it was. Regan phoned Dole Thursday morning with the President's acceptance, and the last roundup of votes began. Four Republicans who could not accept the civilian spending reductions voted against the budget resolution. Dole won over only...
...stepping out. Indeed, some Democrats complain uncharitably that Smith, for one, pays less attention to court calendars than to social ones. Says one Democratic Senator: "If you want to reach the Attorney General, call his social secretary and find out what party he is going to." Yet Max Friedersdorf, a former Reagan legislative assistant, insists that when he tried to cut back on his staffs outside socializing, he discovered that their productivity suffered. Says he: "You have to go to parties to stay informed...
Another highly effective White House aide, Chief Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf, resigned last week. Friedersdorf apparently quit for personal reasons; he had been hospitalized by an asthma attack last summer and took a less hectic job as U.S. consul general in Bermuda. He was replaced by Kenneth Duberstein, one of his chief assistants, who had proved adept at lining up votes for Reagan's programs in the Democratic-controlled House. Nonetheless, a lobbyist with Friedersdorf's skill in wooing legislators is bound to be missed...