Word: laxalt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time has come," said Senator Paul Laxalt. His close friend the President was just about to make his surprise announcement of a new Interior Secretary, but Laxalt had other important political business to discuss in the Oval Office last Thursday afternoon. "I'd like authorization in writing to go ahead and form the committee for your re-election," said the Nevada Republican. The senior presidential aides in the room-James Baker, Michael Deaver, Edward Rollins-waited for the answer. They all knew that although the President seemed ready to run for another term, he did not want to make...
Senator Paul Laxalt is general chairman of the Republican Party, a thin disguise for assembling Reagan's re-election machinery. Laxalt was asked if the President had given him firm word. Nope, confessed Laxalt, he had acted because of "the look in the President's eye." Analyzing presidential eyes could keep the guessing game going until Thanksgiving...
According to Reagan's friend Senator Paul Laxalt, the President had specifically said in a private meeting that James Baker, his chief of staff, was "secure" in his job. Baker has admitted seeing the briefing papers. Other White House sources said that the President also retains his confidence in Budget Director David Stockman, who used the Carter book to rehearse Reagan for the debate. Just where that leaves CIA Director William Casey, Reagan's 1980 campaign manager, who has obliquely denied having given the papers to Baker, as Baker claims he did, was not as clear. Washington press...
...with the possibility of Democratic white flight to the Epton camp, the Republican Party is dispatching some of its bigger guns to the fray. James Fletcher, who engineered Illinois Governor James Thompson's first gubernatorial victory, has signed on with the Epton campaign. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is scheduled to speak this week on Epton's behalf at a $200-a-plate fund-raising dinner. Epton hopes for an initial $200,000 from the committee. Said a hopeful Epton last week, noting that Washington won with only about 37% of the total...
...bipartisan burst, few bothered to point out that the impact of jobs programs usually comes only after recovery is under way. House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois appointed a ten-member task force to write a jobs bill. Senators Howard Baker of Tennessee and Paul Laxalt of Nevada met with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese to enlist his support. Later in the week the White House announced that Reagan was considering a limited and as yet unformulated plan to speed up Government construction projects in order to create more jobs...