Doesn't he live in a van down by the river?
Regan Resigns; Ex-Sen. Baker Selected as New Chief of Staff : Reagan Acts Swiftly After Tower Report
February 28, 1987|JAMES GERSTENZANG | Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, reacting swiftly to the Tower Commission’s indictment of his conduct of his Iran- contra policy, accepted the resignation Friday of White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan and replaced him with former Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr.
Baker, 61, the former Republican senator from Tennessee whose genial style contrasts sharply with the imperious Regan, abandoned his own potential 1988 presidential campaign to take over a White House staff that has been rocked by scandal.
“The President asked me to accept the most sensitive position in his personal entourage and to be his chief of staff, to organize the White House on his behalf,” Baker said. “I didn’t see how I could turn that down.”