WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO in the Admmistration If you read only n e Washington Post or 7he New York Ernes. you may have missed it, but the Reagan White House is at war-with itself. The bitter infighting is not...
...James Baker has much in common with Ford’s chief of staff, Cheney-not an old friend of the president, but tough, competent, determined to dominate...
...STATE Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs-R...
...In WHITE HOUSE Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers-Martin S. Feldstein has been a professor of economics at Harvard University and president of the National Bureau of Economic Research...
...One possible explanation for the intensity of the jealousies and backbiting is that Ronald Reagan has delegated so much power to his subordinates-far more than any modern president-that the stakes are significantly higher than they have been in the past...
...The bitter infighting is not a matter of speculation...
...Deputy Assistant to the President-Michael R. Gale has been a legislative liaison for the American Israel Public Affairs Commission in Washington...
...Reagan’s easy-going manner belies a poisonous atmosphere on his staff that rivals or exceeds the infighting of earlier administrations: Richard Goodwin versus Theodore Sorensen under Kennedy, Marvin Watson versus Bill Moyers under Johnson, Charles Colson versus John Ehrlichman under Nixon, Robert Hartmann versus Richard Cheney under Ford...
...Merit Systems Protection Board Member-Dennis Devaney was with the Washington law firm Tighe, Curhan, Piliero, and Case...
...Pendleton James will join a private sector executive recruiting firm...
...JUSTICE Director of the National Institute of Justice-James L. Underwood will return to the staff of the University of South Carolina Law School...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Member-William A. Webb has been deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania...
...it is a fact...
...STATE Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs-Dean Fischer has resigned...
...International Communications Agency Associate Director for Programs-W...
...Scott Thompson has been an associate professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University...
...Out WHITE HOUSE Assistant to the President, Office of Presidential Personnel-E...
...The best account, written by Jack Nelson of 7’he Lm Angeles Times, has been repeatedly confirmed on background by White House aides...
...It is widely believed within the White House that large-scale staff changes will take place shortly after the November congressional elections...
...The difference between the Reagan snake pit and earlier administrations’, however, is that the bitterness reportedly now extends much further down into the staff ranks...
...By September the situation had, if anything, worsened...
...AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS ACTION Deputy Director, Peace Corps-Edward A. Curran was director of the National Institute of Education, a position from which he was ousted by Education Secretary Terrel H. Bell last summer...
...This place is really bitter,”one White House staffer told Nelson, “as wicked a place for infighting as I’ve seen, and I’m a pretty good infighter...
...Apparently even Michael Deaver, the only high-level aide who wouldn’t talk to Nelson, has said the story was right on target...
...John Hughes has been director of Voice of America...
...Senior Economist in the Office of Economics and Planning, Office of Management and Budget-Mark Wasserman was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board...
...Assistant to the President for Presidential PersonnelHelene von Damm has been a close assistant to Reagan since 1966...
...The Reagan squabbling most resembles the last of these, with Edwin Meese in the role of Hartmann, the old, trusted confidante whose inefficiency has lost him the respect of much of the staff...
...Some Baker loyalists, for instance, are known to agree on the larger battle but to hate each other all the same...
...Special Assistant to the President, Director of Appointments and Scheduling, Office of Management and Budget-William Sadleir has been executive vice president of Standard Energy Corporation...
Vol. 14 • October 1982 • No. 8
