A White House Adviser Publicly Said What Republicans Wont: Trump Is Failing As President

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42. Yeah I've been hearing about the shuffle speculation

And I ironically recall similar stuff going on under Raygun with James Baker -

NEW YORK TIMES
BRIEFING
By Phil Gailey and Warren Weaver Jr.
Published: June 5, 1982

Campaign Against Baker

President Reagan recently rebuked Clymer L. Wright, his 1980 Texas finance chairman, for leading what the President called a campaign of ''sabotage'' against James A. Baker 3d, the White House chief of staff, who stands accused by the Republican far right of watering down Reaganism.

Mr. Wright, a Houston lawyer, apparently does not intend to allow even Ronald Reagan to interfere with his campaign to plug the leaks in Reaganism. While the President and his chief of staff are in Europe, Mr. Wright is rallying conservative leaders in Dallas on Tuesday for what amounts to a Dump Baker meeting. The featured speaker is to be Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus.

In a recent letter to the President, Mr. Wright described Mr. Baker as ''an amiable, uninformed, lazy, slightly confused politician'' who had undermined Reagan policies. He sent copies to hundreds of early Reagan supporters who, in the words of a source close to Mr. Wright, responded with a loud chorus of ''right ons.''

Mr. Baker's friends inside the White House do not seem to be taking the Tuesday rally too seriously. It is too bad, they are joking, that the gathering wasn't held two months ago, when the air travel it is generating might have saved Braniff from bankruptcy. Of Mercury and Ballet

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http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/05/us/briefing-186924.html

WASHINGTON POST

Regan, Baker to Trade Places in Major Shift
By David Hoffman January 9, 1985

President Reagan announced yesterday that two of the most powerful figures of his administration, Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan and White House chief of staff James A. Baker III, will swap jobs in the most dramatic of several personnel changes expected to put a new face on the White House staff in Reagan's second term.

Administration sources also said Reagan has decided to nominate Energy Secretary Donald P. Hodel to replace Interior Secretary William P. Clark, who has resigned to return to his California ranch. An announcement is expected today.

There are several candidates for Hodel's job, including White House personnel director John S. Herrington, officials said. They predicted that Regan would bring in his own team at the White House and said presidential assistant Richard G. Darman probably would leave for a Treasury Department position involving international economics. Craig L. Fuller, another key Reagan assistant, may remain for a while "to help with the transition," officials said.

The president approved the Baker-Regan swap late Monday, the same day it was proposed to him through deputy chief of staff Michael K. Deaver, who also is leaving. Although the president was unaware of it, Regan and Baker had discussed the swap privately over lunch several weeks earlier in Regan's Treasury Department office, officials said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/01/09/regan-baker-to-trade-places-in-major-shift/1c640b51-b012-4cbf-9dc8-66bf989ed8d7/

Difference is it took a few years for the above where all this kind of drama is happening in the first 6 or so months.

As a side note - Baker was sitting in the audience of that infamous foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel, so I'm not ruling out that he's in the background somewhere. Not sure who he would interface with given all the novices in the West Wing at the moment (maybe Sessions is a possibility), but he has been there done that.

WAIT - yeah he IS there - found this from Mourning Schmoe - http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-needs-a-strong-chief-of-staff-says-james-baker-957756995792