"He was with a bunch of our interns last night I don't know where," she said. John Tower (R-Tex.).Īnn Jones, press assistant to Tower, said that young Meese had spent yesterday evening with interns from her office. In addition to his duties as an intern, Scott Meese was apparently an enthusiastic softball player, joining teams formed by the staffs of the policy committee, and the offices of Laxalt and Sen. "He was the most cheerful person I knew in my life," said one of his supervisors, who asked not to be named, "He was a hard worker, probably the most willing worker we had. "Scott was a tremendous young man, bright and articulate, always smiling and with a great sense of humor," said Laxalt. Colleagues spoke highly of his good humor and talent. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), Reagan's top confidant in the Senate. Last summer Scott Meese, the second of three children, worked for Sen. A recent speaker in the program was his father, who served as the president's chief of staff during Reagan's two terms as governor of California. Scott Meese was working this summer for the Senate Majority Policy Committee where he was charged with organizing seminars for the estimated 300 summer interns working for Republicans on Capitol Hill. Our hearts go out to Ed and Ursula who, with their family, are close and dear friends of ours." Louis, President Reagan issued a statement of sympathy: "Nancy and I are shocked and deeply saddened. Upon hearing the news on Air Force One on his way back from St. His wife was expected to return last night. He arrived back in Washington yesterday afternoon. Police said the elder Meese was informed of his son's fatal accident at 4:42 a.m., more than four hours after the crash. Edwin Meese, one of President Reagan's closest advisers, was in California for a meeting of the exclusive Bohemian Club his wife, Ursula, was in Peru on a trip with longtime Reagan friend Nancy Reynolds, the U.S.
yesterday after the Secret Service reached his parents, both of whom were out of town. Police did not disclose the victim's name until 5 a.m.
They said he showed no signs of life and was pronounced dead on arrival at Fairfax Hospital. Rescue workers, aided by an unidentified Air Force doctor, extracted Meese from the wreck but, according to police, it was too late. Police were still investigating late yesterday to determine whether alcohol or drugs were involved.īy the time police arrived, the engine of Meese's 1979 Volkswagen Dasher was on fire. "He was going at a high rate of speed, at least 75 to 80 miles per hour, probably faster than that, but I can't confirm it at this time," said Robert Stratton, a police spokesman. Park police said that speed was probably the chief cause of the accident. "I had never seen a car pass me that fast." The parkway has a 45 mph speed limit there. When I saw him go by, I thought, 'God, that guy is going fast,' " said 20-year-old Anne Phillips of McLean, who said she was driving at about 60 mph. Meese was trying to pass another car when his own car suddenly veered left and ran onto the grassy median strip. Meese, a sophomore at Princeton University and a summer intern with Senate Republicans, apparently was returning to his parents' home in McLean shortly before midnight when, police said, he lost control of the car and failed to negotiate a curve just south of the Rte. Meese published his memoirs, "With Reagan: The Inside Story," in 1992.The 19-year-old son of Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese was killed late Thursday night when his red Volkswagen veered off the northbound lane of the George Washington Parkway at high speed, traveled 330 feet and crashed into a tree. He's a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and holds the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, a public policy research and education institution in Washington. Since then, Meese has pursued his passion for public policy in the private realm as a lecturer, writer, and consultant. The independent counsel declined to prosecute, though Meese still resigned. Robert Wallach resulted in preferential treatment of military contractor Wedtech and support of a proposed Mideast pipeline. The report included charges that a friendship between Meese and former lawyer E. In it, the independent counsel suggested that Meese had violated both tax and ethics laws. In 1988, Meese resigned after a 14-month investigation into his questionable "federal actions" culminated in an 800-page report. He gained notoriety not for his executive influence, but rather for the controversy that ended his tenure. From 1981 to 1985 he served as counselor to the president, then as attorney general until 1988.
Edwin Meese III spent eight high-profile years in President Reagan's inner circle of advisers.
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