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What most troubled Martin's office, as well as some Senators, was Meese's presence at two informal White House meetings at which John McKean, Meese's personal accountant, was approved for appointment to the U.S. Postal Service board of governors. Meese did not tell the other participants at the meetings that McKean had helped him get some $60,000 in unsecured loans. Davis said that he finally concluded this was not an ethics violation by Meese because the money actually came not from McKean but from a fund controlled by one of his partners. Meese, however, had dealt only...
Meese testified that he had not excused himself from these meetings because that had not been the custom at the White House. Beyond that, he said, the meetings were merely to "review" appointments and McKean's name had been first mentioned at them by Michael Deaver, another presidential aide. Asked about a written agenda prepared by McKean in which he noted that he wanted to talk to Meese about both his appointment and the repayment of the personal loans, Meese conceded only that his attendance at the meetings had been "inopportune...
...costs have overtaken our revenues," said Postal Service Board Chairman John McKean. Despite mechanization and the automation of mail sorting, the service has barely managed to keep up with an explosion in the volume of material it handles. The Post Office now needs only 702,000 employees to deliver 131 billion pieces of mail per year, 39,000 fewer than in 1970 when it processed 85 billion pieces. But the average annual pay and benefits for postal workers have gone up from $8,878 to $28,416 in the past 14 years. Even though the USPS made a $1.5 billion...
...that chronicles the exploits of a fictitious heavy-metal band. The group called Spinal Tap was only a joke, created for the film by Director Rob (All in the Family) Reiner, 39, and its three main members, played by Writer-Comedians Harry Shearer, 40, Christopher Guest, 36, and Michael McKean, 36. The movie has been such a stomping success, however, that the boys have decided to take their act on the real rock road. They appeared on Saturday Night Live last week. Is the band surprised to find life imitating art? "Not really," explains Shearer. "After all, our antics aren...
Other Loans. Four other men who helped Meese out of financial difficulties also wound up with federal positions. They were John McKean, who lent Meese a total of $60,000 in two loans in June and December 1981, and became a member of the Postal Service board of governors on July 31, 1981; Thomas Barrack, who spent $70,000 of his own money to help Meese find a buyer for his California house in the summer of 1982 and became Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in December 1982; Gordon Luce, chairman of Great American Federal Savings Bank...