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Individual Congressmen were stroked too. Oklahoma Republican Mickey Edwards reminded the White House that he had proposed a candidate to be appointed a U.S. marshal in his state, and Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte brought up the name of his choice for an Agriculture Department post. Both were assured that their requests were all but approved. Administration strategists even decided to say nothing about their stand on extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act until a budget bill was on Reagan's desk to be signed into law. That issue had little to do with federal spending, of course...
...fact, quiet talks were actually going on only with Tulsa-based Cities Service, whose president, Charles Waidelich, had rushed from Oklahoma to a hotel suite at New York's Waldorf-Astoria for private meetings with Conoco's Bailey. Cities Service was seeking a merger for a reason surprisingly similar to Conoco's: to avert an attempted takeover of its Canadian oil and gas properties by another Canadian company, Nu-West Group Ltd., an Alberta real estate and energy exploration firm. Though less than half Conoco's size, Cities Service holds exploration rights to 10 million acres...
Treasury Secretary Regan explained candidly: "There are a lot of votes in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas"-the home states of legislators whom the Administration is wooing...
...Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Missis sippi, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas...
After the letter was first disclosed, in the Oklahoma City Times, White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes described Michael as "hounded by the media." Added Speakes: "I don't think the President has any problems with the way Michael is doing business." Then cannier heads prevailed. Later the same day Speakes announced that Presidential Counsel Fred Fielding would advise all four Reagan children on possible conflicts of interest, a procedure said to have been planned but not carried out before the President was shot March 30. Michael Reagan then bitterly announced that he would quit Dana Ingalls...