Michael Deaver
Michael Deaver
Michael Keith Deaverwas a member of President Ronald Reagan's White House staff serving as White House Deputy Chief of Staff under James Baker III and Donald Regan from January 1981 until May 1985...
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I think we were telling a joke, Brady and the president and I, walking out.
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His thinking was that he wanted to leave the impression of the commentary, rather than of a talking head. He thought the substance was going to last longer.
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He needed to reassure us on the economy and reassure people there is a future they can be positive about.
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He needed to reassure us on the economy, and reassure people there is a future they can be positive about. People have been saying no to that question everyone asks ? 'Am I going to be better off a year from now than I am today?' ? and that has been going on for the past two or three years.
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He was fun to be around. Reagan would light up when he came into the room.
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Maureen's hoping she can go up and see her father, too, ... Good Morning America.
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When we were engaged in the intensive parts of the investigation or trial preparation, I did not have time for anything else.
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To me, that's when I thought, there was a chance at that point that he might not make it.
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It's something that now, with instant communications, we really want from a president. It's something that the national psyche needs when there's a disaster, a threat, a trauma. We want somebody there to tell us we will survive, we will get through it. It's like I used to say of Reagan, he was America, and America was him. That's what we want.
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When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain.
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I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given to us. Do we know to this day who we killed in Iraq? I don't think so. If bringing war into the living room means that we as a people will say we don't want to do it that way anymore we want to figure out other ways to solve these conflicts, then I would say that photography and television have done us a great service.
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This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.
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The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.
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It made him a lot more stubborn. He said, 'You know, I think there's a reason I've been spared, and I'm gonna follow my own instincts from here on out' And he did.