European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday april 28, 1986 columns & comments William Safire Deaver connections demand Independent probe sen. Joseph Biden d-del., has assembled the necessary majority of the minority of the judiciary committee to ask attorney general Edwin Meese to consider asking a court to appoint Independent counsel to investigate the Pursuit of clients by Michael Deaver. Biden joined by democratic Sens. Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio Paul Simon of Illinois Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Patrick Leahy of Vermont but not Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts who let this cup pass May thus have Trig gered the investigation. The Justice department now must de Termine if evidence exists to justify outside counsel. But never before has an attorney general failed to accede to a formal re quest by the senators specified in the ethics in government act. Aluminium song or. President. The need for outside investigation is inescapable. Meese and Deaver meet regularly As trustees of the Reagan foundation located in the Deaver offices the presi Dent s Best Friend uses his White House pass to bring in such Tennis partners As the director of the Fri. White House counsel Fred Fielding looking into Access peddling had to excuse himself when offered a Job by his old pal. In addition to the Deaver representation of Rockwell corp. For the by bomber and his lobbying for a tax break for puerto Rico the preliminary probe at the Justice department should cover 1. The White House Blue House connection. As reported Here Deaver while in South Korea soliciting business was Able to impress potential clients by calling the White House to arrange a meeting be tween the president and Kim Kihwan a top Trade official. Asked about this both Deaver and Rob Ert Mcfarlane then the National Security adviser were uncharacteristically forgetful. Kim who was in the United states recently refused to take my Calls or meet with House investigators. 2. Acid rain making. Deaver As a White House aide took a deep interest in relations with Canada. Over the protest of state department professionals the president s image maker urged Reagan to appoint a special negotiator on acid rain which the canadians wanted. I suspect Deaver then pressed for the appointment of Drew Lewis who was More Likely to be a com George f. Will hew these Oss Moda Ting than de Harper. At a meeting of the negotiators in new York on oct. 25, 1985, which included a Lewis aide Linda Godsen Robinson Deaver was present for by then he was rep resenting Canada at $105,000 yearly. Lewis tells me that the Deaver suggestions were mainly about the timing of the report and that no minutes were made of the meeting. His visit to Deaver s offices Early this year was for a Reagan foundation meeting Lewis said. 3. The new air Force one. The current plane dates to the Nixon Era. A fight is shaping up Between Boeing and Mcdon Nell Douglas Over who will build the next presidential aircraft. Last october Boeing hired Deaver. According to Public relations director Harold Carr he was hired for advice on International issues affecting commercial sales and How to improve the image of the defense Industry  what about helping to get the air Force one contract he provides input regard ing the aircraft s Interior configuration explains Boeing such As accommodations for the president and his staff guests press  sure. This design input is presumably not available from the air Force but re quires inside tips from the reagans Best Friend on what makes them comfortable. Boeing like lbs refuses to confess to the usual $350,000 annual retainer it pays to Deaver associates but if Deaver s unique understanding of Nancy Reagan s taste in Cabin color schemes leads to a contract the Cost to Boeing of Deaver will be borne by the taxpayers. That would pay for six Hundred $600 toilet seats the House has already Cut the Money out of Pentagon appropriations on grounds of extravagance the Senate however will restore it. Did Deaver ask the reagans about their preferences for the next air Force one will the president be involved in the Choice of Boeing or its competitor we will know More when the Reagan image tarnished no longer has the luxury of brushing off pointed inquiries. Unless Deaver chooses to exercise his rights under the fifth amendment he should have to answer under oath questions put by an Independent counsel. The Access peddling Issue is no longer being shrugged off. As Biden says the Issue is Public Trust in  c new York times Stockman s Case against Reagan he s a conservative in Olden Days the . Communist party specialized in factional fights one of which concerned the Devia zionism of Jay Lovestone whose enemies slogan was Lovestone is a Loveston Eite they had him there. David Stockman s Case against Ronald Reagan is or. Conservative is a conservative the title of Stock Man s instructive Memoir the Triumph of politics is a lament and is Rich in Paradox. It could be the Triumph of conservatism the president s conservatism and the american people s. The Reagan revolution writes Stockman As i had defined it required a frontal assault on the welfare  precisely As Stockman not Reagan defined it. The revolution was to have had two parts the tax Cut and whatever spending cuts were necessary to pay for it. Reagan got most of the former and Little of the latter creating an imbalance that was made worse by Reagan s finest achieve ment the Conquest of inflation. Cutting inflation was like another tax Cut the postwar growth of government was largely financed by Revenue raised by bracket creep As inflation floated taxpayers into higher brackets. The Book is basically a history of 1981 up to november by which time Stockman knew ready for this that Congress was More eager to Cut taxes than spending. Be ginning in 1981, Many americans had their Bluff called. They had become comfortable with their rhetoric of complaint about big  but the 1980s have been a crash course in the Federal budget. There has been a rolling referendum on Domestic spending. After a cold Shower of facts the country is Wiser but also sadder. Stockman s revolution rested on the theory that the will of the people was at drastic variance with the actions of the  but Reagan turned out to be a consensus politician not an  and the consensus voters did not vote against the Post new Deal role of government. Stockman says the dirty Little secret of the re publican party is that 80 percent of House republicans and 90 percent of Senate republicans voted for the major expansions of the welfare state during the last 30 years. Secret Only ideological spectacles kept Stockman from reaching age 34 unaware of the fact that the modern state is not an Accident or a conspiracy foisted on the nation americans really do want mild social democracy sacrificing some capitalist efficiency in the interest of equity and Security. Stockman convicts Reagan of moderation and prudent scepticism about ideology conservative Virtues. He acquits Reagan of the charge of launching a Savage at tack on the social safety  if democrats wonder Why the country is not Seething about Reagan s frontal at tack on the welfare state they should read Stockman. The attack was a peripheral skirmish waged with Only a Smidgen of the ardor Reagan reserved for cutting taxes. Stockman s Book is full of phrases like it had started to Dawn on me and i was finally beginning to see that. What so slowly dawned on him were some truths of conservatism. Our government is conservative. It keeps powerfully to the history behind  and history in a democracy does not live to be rewritten and rerouted it just lives for another Day finding its Way into the future along the trajectory of its Well worn and Palpa ble  six years ago How quickly we forget there was Abun Dant worrying about Reagan s age. Stockman s Book Demon Strates How youth can be a menace to Good governance. The huge deficits clearly show that Reagan was wrong about his capacity to Cut the budget and the stimulative effects of the tax Cut. But no Reagan miscalculation matches Stockman s spectacularly bizarre belief that the political system had Given the country a welfare state the country never wanted. Perhaps Reagan just thought what the hell let s try cutting taxes and spending and see what happens. Stockman chastises himself but remains essentially unc hastened. There is an of putting tone of knowing Ness to this Book that now arrives overflowing with condescension toward Reagan in the midst of an economic Boom. One theme of Stockman s Book is that Reagan s intellectual Isuf Fici envies include too Little knowledge of economics. The larg est lesson of the Book is that Stockman knew too Little history and politics and perhaps economics too. C Washington Post