Who'S Who In The Administration
WHO’S WHO in the Administration As we noted last month, Donald Regan’s spot as the president’s preeminent counselor is now assured. But, of course, it wasn’t always thus. Evidently, when...
...The president accordingly issued orders instructing the troops to give their support to Regan...
...But then Grose comes well recommended: Watergate alum Charles Colson, in his book Born Again, tells that Grose urged him to be “forthright and utterly honest” about Watergate...
...WHO’S WHO in the Administration As we noted last month, Donald Regan’s spot as the president’s preeminent counselor is now assured...
...EDUCATION Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights-Harry M. Singleton is resigning to do consulting work in Washington...
...Louis...
...has been director of the office of foreign disaster assistance of the International Development Cooperation Agency...
...Kenneth Hill, formerly the White House man on the security detail at the Olympics, has no background in transportation whatsoever and raised a few senatorial eyebrows when he said in his confirmation hearing that the White House nominated him because he had done “a very satisfactory job in a somewhat visible position and they wanted me to continue on in a visible position within the federal government I’ Vernon Grose, who has been sitting on the board for ten months as a recess appointee and is also now up for confirmation, goes by “Dr...
...But the national security advisor will soon lock horns again with Regan...
...will become a partner in the consulting firm of Russo, Watts and Rollins, Inc...
...Pearlman is surely one of the few Reagan appointees to return from whence he came instead of staying in Washington to cash in on his connections...
...HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Secretary-Otis R. Bowen has been professor of family medicine at the University of Indiana School of Medicine...
...Even Michael Deaver, who once saw it as his duty to destroy Regan, is observing the new harmony, as is Regan antagonist Robert McFarlane...
...In WHITE HOUSE Assistant to the President for Political and InterGovernmental Affairs-Mitchell Daniels Jr...
...has been deputy assistant to the president and director of the office of intergovernmental affairs...
...AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS Director, Federal Emergency Management AgencyJulius W. Becton, Jr...
...Reagan has Crispen plant items in W and her other favorite publications...
...We were slightly surprised to learn that Nancy Reagan uses her press secretary, Elaine Crispen, like a Hollywood press agent...
...Ambassador to India-John Gunther Dean has been ambassador to Thailand...
...LABOR Undersecretary-Dennis Eugene Whitfield has been chief of staff for the U.S...
...Orders like that can’t be graven in stone...
...No one seems to have put much thought into the qualifications of the other two...
...The California political consultant also told the Reagans that what they needed to do was not get rid of Regan but close ranks behind him...
...It’s all the more remarkable when you think what Washington’s blue chip law firms would pay the man with the inside dope on the pending tax reform initiative...
...Bowen was governor of Indiana in 1973-1981...
...INTERIOR Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs-Ross 0. Swimmer has been principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma...
...But if the center is still holding in the topmost levels of the executive branch, some of the lower level appointees are looking pretty ragged these days...
...Ronald A. Pearlman, the administration’s chief tax specialist, is departing by the end of the year to resume his tax law practice in St...
...Special Assistant to the President for Political and Governmental Affairs-Ceci Cole McInturff has been on the staff of the office of intergovernmental affairs...
...Grose,” even though his doctorate is an honorary degree...
...Assistant Secretary for Health and EnvironmentMary L. Walker has been a private consultant on environmental and safety matters...
...trade representative...
...Long-time Reagan intimate Stuart Spencer pointed up the fact that there were no obvious replacements for Regan...
...Of three nominees for positions on the National Transportation Safety Board, only one, John K. Lauber, is generally respected...
...Colson also calls Grose a good friend and a “strong Republican,” which is somewhat intriguing since the White House nominated Grose to one of the slots on the NTSB for political independents...
...Evidently, when Regan was under fire for his bare knuckles style, the Reagans considered getting rid of the chief of staff, but cooler heads prevailed...
...COMMERCE Assistant Secretary for Trade Administration-Paul Freedenburg has been staff director for the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs subcommittee on international finance and monetary policy...
...Issuing commands for harmony isn’t the only way the Reagans have found to mold public opinion...
...out WHITE HOUSE Assistant to the President for Political and Intergovernmental Affairs-Edward J. Rollins Jr...
...STATE Assistant Secretary for Human Rights-Richard Schifter has been a partner in the Washington law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson...
Vol. 17 • December 1985 • No. 11
