WHO'S WHO in the Administration
WHO'S WHO in the Administration In the White House battle over the State of the Union Address, the principal players on one side were Patrick Buchanan, T. Bentley Elliot, and Josh Gilder, who...
...Verstandig kept nagging...
...WHO'S WHO in the Administration In the White House battle over the State of the Union Address, the principal players on one side were Patrick Buchanan, T. Bentley Elliot, and Josh Gilder, who wrote the hard-line conservative first draft, and, on the other, Donald Regan's aides, Alfred H. Kingon (nicknamed "Klingon" by his enemies, after the bad guys in "Star Trek"), Dennis Thomas, and David Chew, who favored tempering what they regarded as the speech's rhetorical excesses...
...Not only had Verstandig's arrogance angered the entire East Wing staff, he wanted to make a female friend his special assistant at $60,000 a year, more than most of the staff makes...
...Thomas is an enemy that Messrs...
...Thanks to Secretary of the Navy John Lehman's inflexible commitment to building a 600-ship Navy, it is increasingly evident that the Navy won't be able to pay for much-needed training, ammunition and spare parts...
...Trouble also continues at the Commission on Civil Rights...
...It seems that Chairman Clarence M. Pendleton Jr...
...has had to resign from the San Diego County Local Development Corp., of which he was president and chairman of the board, because of criticism of the fact that his aide at the commission, Sydney I. Novell, had been given, at Pendleton's instigation, a lucrative contract with the non-profit corporation...
...Already strapped for cash, the agency is headed for more cuts under Gramm-Rudman...
...After a mere 24 days on the job, Lee L. Verstandig is quitting as Nancy Reagan's chief of staff to work for Michael K. Deaver, who was his sponsor for the White House job...
...Note that Pendleton resigned in March 1982 from the presidency of the Urban League in San Diego amid charges he mishandled funds...
...This time around, the Buchanan team won...
...Nancy finally called up Deaver and said you gave me this guy, now get him off my hands...
...Egger certainly had his problems with his agents disposing of masses of returns and with the now wellknown computer snafus, but it is hard to imagine how things will improve at the IRS under any new commissioner...
...Nancy said no...
...In the future they will win more battles than they will lose...
...Critics raise the spectre of $3.5 billion aircraft carriers without planes to take off from them...
...Buchanan, Elliott and Gilder would be especially prudent to fear...
...So don't hold your breath for that refund...
...The troubled IRS is looking for a new chief now that Roscoe Egger has announced his departure in April...
...During nearly two years of association with the San Diego firm, which helps businesses prepare loan appplications for the Small Business Administration, Novell made more than $110,000, all the while retaining her position in Washington, which paid her $41,328 in fiscal 1985...
...But their victory fell well short of a knockout, and White House insiders predict that the Regan team will retain the key power positions...
Vol. 18 • March 1986 • No. 2
