WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO in the Administration Our only mistake in suggesting that Alton Keel's appointment to the National Security staff last August seemed to have been a reward for his help in guiding the...
...Out AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS Member, Federal Reserve Board—Henry C. Wallich...
...This anecdote and others of similar character that we have heard about Col...
...WHO'S WHO in the Administration Our only mistake in suggesting that Alton Keel's appointment to the National Security staff last August seemed to have been a reward for his help in guiding the Rogers Commission away from investigating the White House involvement in the Challenger explosion was that we underestimated the extent of the administration's appreciation...
...He was counsel to former New York Gov...
...Richard Stone, the White House envoy, got most of the blame...
...North boasted that he had carefully worded it for "domestic political consumption ." The result: Congress would now send an additional $60 million to El Salvador...
...Despite it all, it was the beginning of North's ascent to power...
...Not if his appointment of Fritz W. Ermarth as his senior expert on relations with Moscow is any indication...
...Walsh has longstanding ties to the Republican party...
...As I started to fall asleep, I heard a man with a loud voice in the next row bragging about his connections to Alexander Haig...
...An anecdote conveyed to us by Mark Feldstein of WUSA-TV in Washington provides evidence that modesty and diplomacy were not Oliver North's strong suits...
...He was also the lawyer who persuaded Richard Kleindienst, when Kleindienst was Nixon's attorney general, to grease the way for an antitrust settlement that was highly favorable to ITT...
...North is one of those few...
...The selection of former Senator John Tower to investigate the Iran-contra arms deal seems a bit strange to those who know that Tower's brother-in-law, Sam Cummings, is one of the world's leading arms dealers...
...When I broke the story the next day, it upset and embarrassed officials both in Washington and San Salvador...
...Meanwhile, I had inadvertently stumbled across a global power play in the coach section of the plane...
...Caspar Weinberger, we are told, has a serious bone disease, and Malcolm Baldrige is said to have cancer...
...He read aloud a statement that the White House planned to release praising the Salvadoran government for its courageous decision...
...They had just convinced El Salvador's president to hold new elections, and now believed that this would force a reluctant Congress to approve more aid to the Salvadoran government...
...His recent selection as ambassador to NATO—over such prominent contenders as Patrick Buchanan, former Senator Charles Mathias and Kenneth Adelman, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency—shows that Reagan was grateful in the extreme...
...he was reportedly chewed out by President Reagan for allowing the story to leak out, and his career as a diplomat soon came to an end...
...This is the kind of thing few subordinates can resist bragging about to the boss, and the evidence does not suggest that Col...
...Will incoming National Security Adviser Frank C. Carlucci remake the NSC into the arbiter of policy battles for which it was originally set up...
...A former colleague familiar with Ermarth's work during a two-year stint at the NSC during the Carter administration recalls Ermarth as "a hawk...
...North was traveling with White House envoy Richard Stone and another National Security Council staff member...
...Moreover, for nearly 20 years Walsh was a director and lawyer for a pharmaceutical company whose prescription drugs allegedly caused birth defects and cataracts...
...William Casey and Ronald Reagan aren't the only members of the administration to have health problems...
...But somehow, Oliver North remained unscathed...
...North make it hard to believe that he could have resisted telling someone in authority—Donald Regan, Reagan, or perhaps George Bush and his staff, who were pushing especially hard for aid to the contras—about his skill in killing two birds with one stone, taking care of Iran and the contras with his arms scheme...
...On the flight the men were laughing and celebrating...
...Thomas Dewey, and he chaired an American Bar Association committee that gave its approval to President Nixon's nomination of the incompetent G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court...
...I listened further, and soon began to scribble notes on an airsickness bag...
...North chortled that he had arranged things so that it would appear the Salvadorans had thought up the idea...
...In 1983, Feldstein, then a reporter with WTSP in Tampa, Florida, had this run-in with North: "I was returning from a vacation in Central America, riding on an airplane that was flying from San Salvador to Miami...
...Yet it was North who had done most of the blabbing...
...who never did find out how to operate" to create a consensus for improving U.S.-Soviet relations...
...In WHITE HOUSE Principal deputy Press Secretary—Marlin Fitzwater was press secretary to the Vice President...
...His defense of the company was described by one plaintiff's lawyer as "deplorable and vicious...
...It turned out that the man with the loud voice, thenMajor Oliver North, was conducting secret negotiations with the government of El Salvador on behalf of President Reagan...
...The appointment by the special three-judge panel of Lawrence E. Walsh as independent counsel to investigate the Iranian arms sales has not been met with the proper amount of skepticism...
Vol. 19 • February 1987 • No. 1
