Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aides to the two other members of Reagan's "triumverate" of high-level White House staff advisers--Craig L. Fuller, chief aide to Edwin Meese III, the president's counselor, and Joseph W. Canzeri, an assistant to Michael Deaver, the White House deputy chief of staff--also received promotions...
...routines: every morning National Security Adviser Richard Allen pre pares a 20-page national security briefing in Washington where it is scrambled, telecopied and then unscrambled at the communications trailer behind the Reagan ranch house. Shortly before 8 a.m. the briefing paper is ready for the President. Aide Mike Deaver, who has scanned it, phones the ranch from the Santa Barbara Biltmore. Almost all information that reaches the President goes through Deaver, who screens out everything but the essentials. They speak for 15 to 20 minutes in the morning and again at lunchtime. Reagan approves a few appointments, mostly routine...
...Biltmore, the executive offices of the President appear to be open for business, in spite of their luxurious location in three white adobe cottages beside a putting green. Two Marine guards in full dress uniform, including white gloves, indicate that Cottage Eight is the heart of the operation. Deaver explains that originally the Marines were posted for security, but now "they remind everyone that we're not on vacation...
...firmly told his aides, who had proposed presidential visits to Alaska and Hawaii, that he has earned an uninterrupted vacation. Only a doctor and a military aide are at the ranch with Reagan. Chief of Staff James Baker will spend time alone fishing in Texas and Assistant Michael Deaver will retreat to the New England coast. Only Counsellor Edwin Meese will remain on duty, splitting his time between the White House and California. Says one aide: "The President wants time to himself." His only scheduled activity is a short visit to Los Angeles for a meeting with advisers on defense...
...Connor flew to Washington on June 29 for a breakfast the next morning with Smith in a secret hotel hideaway. That same day she met with Reagan's senior staff, including the troika of Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver. On July 1 she was invited to the Oval Office by Reagan. The 10 a.m. meeting was unannounced and, like countless other private presidential meetings, went unnoticed by reporters. She moved quickly to break any tension in the talks by reminding the President that they had met a decade ago, when he was Governor of California...