Word: loyalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caring for the White House was palpable. The ambitious, driven man clearly regretted leaving the place. And his regret somehow gave credence to an astonishing conversation that he had with one of his senior aides shortly after the election. The President asked if it were possible to install a loyalist as head of the Democratic National Committee so that Carter could maintain some measure of control. As the man listened in disbelief, the President told him-in unmistakable terms-that he might want to be a candidate for the job again...
Reagan's choice for No. 2 at the State Department, William Clark, is a Republican loyalist from California who worked for Reagan when he was Governor and was eventually elevated by Reagan to the state supreme court. Clark is worried lest his departure from the California court leave a vacancy that Governor Jerry Brown might fill with a liberal jurist, further tipping the court's balance toward the left. For Deputy Treasury Secretary, Reagan's more conservative supporters are urging the appointment of New York Drug Store Magnate Lewis Lehrman, an outspoken proponent of a return...
...successful dentist in Charleston, S.C.; a Reagan loyalist since 1964; and, from 1975 to 1979, he served as the first Republican Governor of South Carolina in a century. He has little experience in the energy field. But James Burrows Edwards, 53, has one major credential for the job of Secretary of Energy. He is a protégé of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who with other Southern Republicans had been complaining that Reagan had not appointed anyone from their region to his Cabinet. Edwards would like nothing better than to be unemployed by 1982, when he hopes...
Weinberger is a team player and loyalist who through long association has won Reagan's absolute trust. Those qualities are important in any President's Cabinet; in Reagan's they loom as vital. In addition, Weinberger will probably be the only Cabinet member who was part of Reagan's cabinet in California, where Reagan governed largely through an executive committee of senior officers, just as he intends to do in Washington...
White insists he has enough votes in the 363-member national committee to win re-election next February, but the Carter loyalist is hedging about whether he really wants to stay on. "My decision is not made," says White, who may have plans to run for Governor of his native Texas in 1982. He adds: "I'm going home to Muleshoe, talk to a few friends and see what the future holds...