Word: laxalt
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Early in the evening, a yellow Ford pulled up to the southwest entrance of the White House. Transition boss Edwin Meese and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt piled out and proceeded to the Situation Room in the basement. They were about to make their nightly call to Ronald Reagan at his Pacific Palisades home and now they felt it necessary to use the most tap-proof telephones in the nation to discuss the most top-secret political topic in town: Who would be members of his new Cabinet...
...Meese, Laxalt, a few other aides and Reagan were about the only people in the country who knew for sure last week what was going on. Outside Reagan's home, reporters stood long vigils waiting vainly for scraps of information. When Reagan emerged from conferences with his lieutenants to attend a series of private dinners, he merely smiled away correspondents' questions. In Washington rumors and speculation buzzed louder every day, reproducing a touch of the he's-down, he's-up, he's-down-again hysteria of '30s fight broadcasters in Reagan...
Republican control of the new U.S. Senate has also increased the influence of such fellow "rebels" as Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Sagebrush Rebellion leaders now plan to concentrate their battle for control of the federal lands in Congress, where both Hatch and Nevada's Democratic Representative Jim Santini have introduced bills that would set up a commission to establish an "orderly process" for transferring land to the states. Though they have little
...biggest Ford dealers in California and long a close associate of the President-elect; Anne Armstrong, Gerald Ford's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; Justin Dart of Dart & Kraft, Inc., a multinational food and housewares corporation; Nevada's Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's key man in Washington; and Edwin Meese, Reagan's closest assistant, who will coordinate the shaping of domestic and foreign policy in the new White House...
...Later, Laxalt reported to Reagan what he had done. "He was pleased," he says. The President-elect then formally gave his blessing to the arrangement that his man on the Hill, acting alone but in full confidence that he knew precisely what his old friend wanted, had quietly worked out behind the scenes...