The Nation : Reagan May Recall Aides

President Reagan plans to recall to duty three veteran political operatives with roots in the Richard M. Nixon Administration for key White House assignments, sources said. The sources, insisting on anonymity, said Reagan would name Patrick J. Buchanan, now a television commentator and newspaper columnist, as chief of White House communications, in charge of speech-writing and media planning. Edward J. Rollins, director of the President’s 1984 reelection campaign, would head an office dealing with politics and intergovernmental relations between Washington and state and local governments. And Max L. Friedersdorf, the White House’s chief congressional lobbyist in the first year of the Reagan Administration, would again have a similar position.