Word: regan
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Former White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan testified about his efforts to prevent a Korean client of Deaver's from getting a two-minute meeting with , the President. Regan said he repeatedly vetoed the trade-related meeting, only to see it reappear on Reagan's schedule. Deaver was paid $475,000 for setting up the appointment and doing a few other errands for the Koreans. Philip Morris paid Deaver $250,000 to help win access to the South Korean tobacco market; company officials acknowledged they were overjoyed when Deaver obtained an hour-long meeting with South Korean President Chun...
...White House they think Reagan might ease such tension by pointing out that when Moscow Party Chief Boris Yeltsin included Gorbachev's wife Raisa in his criticism, he was sacked. After White House Chief of Staff Don Regan hung up on Nancy Reagan, he too got the ax. In unison there is hope: a toast to the ladies...
Cover: Photograph by Ken Regan -- Camera...
Nonetheless, Reagan should be more careful in deciding which advisers he heeds. By following James Baker's counsel during the first term, the President navigated a successful course to re-election. But with Baker at the Treasury, first Don Regan and then Howard Baker have been unable to get the President...
Whistle blowers within the Administration were consistently squelched. When Martin Feldstein, the President's chief economic adviser in 1982-84, warned of the deficit dangers in the Administration's annual economic report, then Treasury Secretary Donald Regan told reporters they could "throw away" the document. Meanwhile, supply-siders like Economist Paul Craig Roberts, who was an Assistant Treasury Secretary during 1981 and 1982, kept minimizing the problem. Said he in 1984: "Deficits are on the way out." Later the Administration's budgeteers grew so wary of mentioning the prospect of new taxes that they started calling it the T word...