Michael Deaver, R.I.P.
Time passes and our leaders go to places much better than this planet. Mike Deaver, one of Ronald Reagan’s closest advisors, lost a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Mike Krempasky worked with the Deaver at Edelman. Any chance he got he asked questions to get a glimpse of what Reagan’s world was like and how they pulled off all that they did:
Since most of the Reaganites I knew to date were policy warriors or activists, everyone of them could tell you which issue kept them up at night – which issue kept them out of the private sector. I hoped to figure out what made Mike tick – what drove him to serve. I can’t remember how it came up, but I asked him if Communism was his “issue.” Almost instantaneously, he responded, “Ronald Reagan was my issue.”
Godspeed, Mike.
A Different Drummer…
As you can see in that poignant post, Mike Krempasky works for Edelman, the public relations firm which Michael Deaver was International Vice-Chairman of, as noted above, so he actually knew Mr. Deaver….