Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempted to slash education spending. He can talk about compassion, but most voters will remember who was slashing food stamp programs during the 1981 - 1983 recession. The Vice President can promise to bring integrity back to Washington, but he can't hide the fact that he stood behind Meese, Deaver, Nofziger, McFarlane, North, and Reagan's other crooked croneys...
...hoped Reagan would cut out the graft and corruption on Capitol Hill. But Reagan's buddies--Lyn Nofziger, Michael Deaver, Edwin Meese, and a couple dozen others--have been less than ethical. She wanted honesty in government--instead she got the Iran-contra scandal. She wanted a hands-on president--instead she got one who slept through Cabinet meetings and delegated decision-making to junior staff members...
Nofziger dismissed his crime as being "kind of like running a stop sign." However, it carries a possible prison sentence of six years. Ironically, another independent counsel, Whitney North Seymour, had viewed the Ethics Act as "riddled with loopholes." Instead of using it against Michael Deaver, another Reagan aide turned lobbyist, Seymour successfully prosecuted him in December for lying about his lobbying...
Other White House insiders also suffer from Deaver's tributes. He describes Attorney General Edwin Meese as a man who would "as a matter of loyalty or conviction, sit there and deny something he knew to be true." Vice President George Bush gets high marks for calling all over the U.S. to provide a fresh joke for the President's daily briefing...
...Deaver's account of his perjury conviction in a case brought by an independent counsel draws some sympathy, but his chronicle of building a lobbying business around his old contacts shows little appreciation of the fine lines of ethics and propriety he crossed. His legal appeal is still in progress, but Behind the Scenes is a clear, if inadvertent, plea of guilt to charges of naivete...