WHO'S WHO in the Administration
WHO'S WHO in the Administration The undersecretary of travel and tourism is a $64,800-a-year job, the holder of which is supposed to help attract foreign tourists and encourage travel here at...
...But two exceptions are the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency, where there is a degree of dedication that is considerably above average...
...Tuttle is also daughter-in-law of Holmes Tuttle, the big L.A...
...But instead of being grateful to these employees, the administration has betrayed them with leadership ranging from the lackluster to the perverse...
...Those who want some significant reform of our Social Security system, including a means test, are rooting for Michael Boskin, who now teaches the economics of public finance at Stanford...
...Dole's colleagues in the Reagan Cabinet, Health and Human Services chief Margaret Heckler, whom the White House considers a "modified limited disaster" and a "flake...
...The last undersecretary was a Los Angeles art dealer who had been Nancy Reagan's chief of staff, and when he left, there was a hue and cry among Senate Republicans to get someone with professional experience for the post...
...In the inner sanctums of the White House, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole is regarded as first-rate, a view shared by many who have observed her on the job as well...
...Conservatives like Ronald Reagan tend to imagine Washington as full of agencies where people don't work awfully hard...
...Rdtle can keep the job for almost a year without congressional approval . . . . Speaking of Nancy Reagan, her transformation from Marie Antoinette to Little Sister of the Poor is not quite complete...
...New EPA Chairman William Ruckleshaus is an improvement over Anne Burford, and has at least taken the shame out of serving at the agency...
...Mrs...
...But he's too much a captive of the White House and the OMB to reignite the esprit one used to find there...
...It is rumored that Boskin, who favors gearing Social Security payments to the recipient's need, will be elevated from his present status as adviser to the administration to a position of real power...
...Reagan has chosen Donna F. Tuttle, whose professional experience includes sales, teaching, real estate, and interior design...
...Too often, what they imagine turns out to be true...
...Or, to be more precise, it is complete for purposes of her public appearances, at which small black children are frequently photographed as kissing companions...
...We hope the rumor is true...
...Now Mr...
...For example, while he has sought some increases in his hazardous wastes enforcement staff, it's just a small fraction of what is needed...
...In private, however, the first lady continues to see the old Versailles gang, including favored escort Jerry Zipkin, who was an unpublicized guest at both William F. Buckley's dinner party and the New Year's party at the Annenbergs's...
...car dealer and longtime member of the Reagan kitchen cabinet...
...The same is not said, however, of one of Mrs...
...CPSC Chairman Nancy Steorts is a lightweight who too often sides with industry lobbyists...
...It's a "recess appointment:' made while Congress was out of session, so Mrs...
...WHO'S WHO in the Administration The undersecretary of travel and tourism is a $64,800-a-year job, the holder of which is supposed to help attract foreign tourists and encourage travel here at home...
Vol. 16 • February 1984 • No. 1
