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...notable move was reaffirming the choice of Richard Burt, an able but abrasive Haig loyalist, as Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. Burt's nomination had been held up because, Like Haig, he had irritated the White House staff. Says an Administration insider: "Shultz would have appeared intimidated by the White House if he had dumped Burt...
...moderation and compromise. To others, the ad hoc group is the dynamo behind Ronald Reagan's legislative successes and the key to the biggest challenge of his presidency, the proposed 1982 tax increase. "It is the driving force in the White House today," says a top Reagan loyalist. "It sets the agenda for what we're doing and where we're going...
...hours after he left the White House, Kemp was huddling with an unusual group of 30 conservative movers and shakers in a hired conference room in a building near Capitol Hill. A surprising participant: Lyn Nofziger, until last January chief White House political adviser and a staunch Reagan loyalist. There, too, were three other estranged Administration officials: former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, former Treasury Under Secretary Norman Ture and former Director of Policy Development Martin Anderson. Direct-Mail Mogul Richard Viguerie, publisher of the New Right Conservative Digest, and Conservative Caucus President Howard Phillips were probably the most...
...have a British counterpart. Parliamentary scuffling has already begun in London, where Thatcher's government faces inquiries into why Argentina's invasion of the Falklands came as such a surprise. The Prime Minister was embarrassed by the publication of a letter she had written to a Tory loyalist on Feb. 3, claiming that the Royal Marine garrison stationed in the Falklands prior to Argentina's invasion-a total of 42 men-was a "sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression." Thatcher's explanation was that "I don't think any of us quite expected we would...
...Does It His Way" [Feb. 22], George Bush is a most effective Vice President, ably assisted by a loyal staff who are far from dispirited. I never told your reporter my recommendations on scheduling were overruled, as you state. Counter to your observation, I continue to be a Bush loyalist and deeply admire the Vice President for all he has done and is doing to support President Reagan...