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Ever since he was Governor of California, Ronald Reagan has had to fend off charges that he is insensitive to minorities. So there was surprise last week when the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released two letters written by its black chairman, Clarence Pendleton Jr., to Reagan, criticizing the President for doing too much to help minorities. Among the actions that Pendleton protested: holding a White House luncheon for Administration blacks. Wrote he: "You did not appoint people by color or gender. Why convene them for [that] reason?" He also chided Reagan for supporting "set-aside" programs that favor minority...
...Pendleton, a presidential appointee, has been an outspoken apostle of Reagan's civil rights creed, which includes opposition to quotas and other coercive remedies for discrimination. The letters apparently grew out of talks between Pendleton and two of the Administration's leading civil rights conservatives, Counsellor Edwin Meese and William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Their aim: to keep Reagan true to his conservative beliefs. Pendleton said he wrote the letters to let the President know "there are people who believe in his original agenda...
...stubs of five checks issued by the trust had been altered. The checks apparently were written initially to cover "moving expenses," but that notation was blacked out and changed to "consulting fees." The recipients: Meese, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Michael Deaver and Administration Personnel Director E. Pendleton James, who got $10,000 each; Interior Secretary William Clark, who got $9,942; and Helene von Damm, Ambassador to Austria, who received...
...months. As a result, Meese fell behind in his mortgage payments on both the old and the new residences- 15 months on the La Mesa property and four on the McLean home. His bankers did not attempt to foreclose. In the meantime, White House Personnel Director E. Pendleton James phoned his longtime friend California Real Estate Developer Thomas Barrack and told him of Meese's predicament. Within weeks Barrack had found a buyer and arranged for bank financing. The final price, including an adjacent...
...with McKean's selection on July 31, 1981, to become a member of the Postal Service board of governors. McKean had not been on a formal list of candidates for the part-time position when Meese, Deaver, Chief of Staff James Baker and Personnel Director E. Pendleton James met to recommend board members. Deaver suggested McKean, Meese concurred, and McKean got the job, which pays $10,000 a year. Metzenbaum asked why Meese had not told Baker and James, as well as the President, that he was indebted to McKean. Replied Meese: "The idea there was any connection between...