Maureen Reagan Scolds Deaver for Book

President Reagan’s daughter Maureen on Sunday accused former White House aide Michael K. Deaver of abusing the first family’s “hospitality” in his new book, “Behind the Scenes,” and said the episode has upset her.

In the book, not to be published until February but excerpted Friday in the Washington Times, Deaver recounts his 20-year relationship with the Reagans partly by criticizing the President and by saying Nancy Reagan has pushed her husband toward arms control and “to soften his line on the Soviet Union.”

Interviewed Sunday on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” Maureen Reagan, the President’s daughter by his first marriage and co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, said:

“I am very saddened by this book that has been written, and I think if ever there was a time when someone’s hospitality was abused, this is the time.”

Deaver, who resigned in May, 1985, as deputy White House chief of staff, is standing trial on perjury charges stemming from investigations of his private post-government lobbying activities.

In his book, Deaver assessed the first couple’s relationship with regard to politics by writing: “Nancy wins most of the time. When she does, it is not by wearing him down but by usually being on the right side of an issue.”