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Last month the two officials opened a channel of communication with White House Counsel A.B. Culvahouse to urge that Meese be persuaded to quit. Culvahouse arranged a meeting for them with Chief of Staff Baker on March 16. The White House version of Baker's response is that "he respected their views but couldn't offer much encouragement." He explained that Reagan simply would < not consider pushing Meese...
After the resignations, speculation quickly shifted to whether Solicitor General Charles Fried would quit too. Fried, who represents the Government before the Supreme Court, sought the advice of Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell. The 80-year-old Powell described Fried as "very upset and concerned." When Meese urged Fried to stay on the job, the anguished official declined to give a flat promise to do so. Instead, he told Meese that the turmoil in the department would not end until Meese stepped aside...
...mirror as "Mr. President." Bob Dole and Dick Gephardt had just won the Iowa caucuses (remember them?) and had every reason to expect a surge that would carry them to their nominations. But the glow did not survive Super Tuesday, and last week they bowed to the inevitable and quit the race. More than 3,000 reporters covered the Iowa campaign. In the end it turned out to be less important than the Michigan Democratic caucuses, for which nary an exit poll was taken. Even Iowa's runners-up have done poorly: Pat Robertson and Paul Simon are likely...
Saying he would run again in 1992, Robertson told about 3000 people at Denver's Happy Church, "I am not going to quit...That is His plan for me and for this nation...
Another factor in ARENA's favor was a leadership change. In 1985 former Army Intelligence Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, linked by Duarte and the U.S. to the death squads, quit as party president under pressure from Washington. But he remains a key figure in ARENA, and he drew large enthusiastic crowds at campaign rallies. D'Aubuisson's successor is Alfredo Cristiani, a graduate of Washington's Georgetown University and scion of a wealthy coffee-growing family. His soft-spoken approach evidently convinced some Salvadorans that the party had moderated its views, and many were further swayed by ARENA's slick...