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...once and for all that they are not merely a band on the run. The Administration insists it is optimistic. "We think there are things that can happen between now and the summertime that would be a good influence on receiving the money in September," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. Noted Abrams: "By September there will be in excess of 15,000 men inside Nicaragua fighting hard, and I don't think it's going to be so easy for the Democrats to say, 'Let's abandon them...
Another question is how far the purge triggered by the Tower commission report will go. Said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "The President is rightfully angry at the mismanagement that has occurred, and he is determined to make changes." Most of Don Regan's assistants, often derided as the "mice," will shortly follow their chief out the White House door. The Cabinet is a tougher problem. The present members most criticized by the Tower panel are the least likely to go: Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...personal and political heartbeat of the Reagan presidency is now in the hands of five people besides the President himself: his wife Nancy, Chief of Staff Don Regan and his deputy Dennis Thomas, the new press spokesman Marlin Fitzwater and Pollster Richard Wirthlin. They regulate Reagan's energies, shape his moods, provide his information, schedule his forays beyond the comforting tranquillity of the Oval Office. They are not a formal body. Mostly they cluster in twos or threes, but they are always linked minute by minute through the phones. It is a singular power mechanism, twisted by its own internal...
...report's release, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Reagan had sent the board a letter last Friday, as it was completing its work, because "he simply felt there were other recollections and clarifications he wanted to provide the board...
...reaching investigation of the whole Iran arms- contra funds scandal. It is the only investigative body that has questioned the President, who last week met with its three members for the second time, in a 70-minute session. The White House is bracing itself for what Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater predicted will be a "critical and tough" report. Among other things, the commission is believed to have found deep CIA involvement in illegal arming of the contras. As a result, the agency's deputy chief Robert Gates, Reagan's nominee to succeed ailing William Casey as CIA director, may face heated...