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...correspondents assigned to cover the White House, press briefings and scheduled events constitute only a modest part of their daily duties. Much of their information comes from private conversations with officeholders, who often provide background or personal observations. For this week's cover story on the inner workings of the Reagan Administration, White House Correspondents Laurence Barrett and Douglas Brew drew on knowledge built up over months of reporting on Reagan and his executive "troika"-Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. Says Barrett: "To know how the minds...
...Washington rite of passage: a member of the President's inner council leaves under fire. His departure certifies that the new Administration is no longer new. Collisions with reality are forcing changes in personnel as well as modifications of policy. Post-Inaugural hopes and dreams are turning into a series of adaptations to unforeseen pressures and challenges...
...that he can accept, modify or reject. One answer is easy: there is no doubt which aides are most important. The so-called troika of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, 50, White House Chief of Staff James Baker, 51, and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, 42, almost constitutes an inner government. But how they are organized and operate is difficult even for the participants to describe. The troika is a puzzling three-headed creature that defies all the usual rules of orderly administration...
...thing, there is reason to doubt that Reagan and his inner circle are hearing all the policy views they should. At least five Cabinet members early last summer feared that budget deficits would rise far beyond the optimistic projections that Stockman was presenting. (Ironically, so did Stockman, but at that point he was telling only the Atlantic Monthly.) The five were too afraid of being intimidated by Stockman to speak up in Cabinet meetings. Instead, they formed a rump group that met three times in July to voice their complaints to selected presidential aides. They never did get through...
Tome McLaughlin, for instance, is generally considered the more emotional and outspoken of the pair, at least during games. "Frankie's emotion is more inner," Tom says, "He's much more logical than I am. I can snap." Frank agrees: "He shows his anger a lot more. If I get upset I don't show it as much...I think it's silly to get upset...