Word: gergens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...January, Clark interceded against a White House reorganization that would have diminished the role of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. This strained Clark's relations with Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, who was the architect of the plan. Then in February, Clark tried to oust Press Spokesman David Gergen. "The tension around here is unbelievable," says one White House aide...
...Bill Moyers of CBS. In April, Moyers reported and narrated a documentary called People Like Us. It portrayed four families as innocent victims of social welfare cuts, despite Reagan's contention that the truly needy were still protected by a "social safety net." White House Communications Director David Gergen angrily charged that the documentary hit "below the belt," and that some of Moyers' examples were misleading. CBS stood by the program, and Moyers has continued to jab at Reaganomics in his Evening News commentaries. In December, for example, he began an analysis with these assertions: "This country...
Moyers is not the only TV figure to prompt complaints from the Administration. On Election Night, Gergen telephoned CBS White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl to condemn remarks made by her and her colleagues that the results were a referendum on Reaganomics and that it was likely to be "a Democratic night." Ten days later, Reagan complained to conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick that TV coverage of the economy was persistently unfair. Said Kilpatrick, paraphrasing Reagan: "CBS in particular, he remarked, seemed determined to distort the economic picture by excessive concentration on the bad news...
White House aides were understandably furious. Said one ranking insider: "It was the most blatantly partisan election-night coverage that I have ever seen." Presidential Spokesman David Gergen telephoned Stahl during the broadcast to complain. She relayed the protest to Rather, but it apparently had no effect on him or his colleagues. Next day, on the CBS Evening News, Moyers opined that the elections had "crippled the Republican Party...
After the 1980 Reagan landslide, Republicans dreamed of Michel becoming House Speaker in this election. But now the Democrats, who have a 49-seat House majority, seem likely to add at least 15 new members to their ranks. White House Spokesman David Gergen said last week that the Administration would consider it a victory if Republicans "come up on the sunny side of 20" seats lost. Such a result would not be much worse than the party in power traditionally fares in first-term off-year elections, and would represent neither a rejection nor a reaffirmation of Reagan...