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...
...WHO’S WHO in the Administration As we noted last month, Donald Regan’s spot as the president’s preeminent counselor is now assured...
...Grose,” even though his doctorate is an honorary degree...
...The president accordingly issued orders instructing the troops to give their support to Regan...
...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...
...Bowen was governor of Indiana in 1973-1981...
...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...
...AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS Director, Federal Emergency Management AgencyJulius W. Becton, Jr...
...has been director of the office of foreign disaster assistance of the International Development Cooperation Agency...
...out WHITE HOUSE Assistant to the President for Political and Intergovernmental Affairs-Edward J. Rollins Jr...
...will become a partner in the consulting firm of Russo, Watts and Rollins, Inc...
...Issuing commands for harmony isn’t the only way the Reagans have found to mold public opinion...
...No one seems to have put much thought into the qualifications of the other two...
...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...
...Ambassador to India-John Gunther Dean has been ambassador to Thailand...
...But the national security advisor will soon lock horns again with Regan...
...HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Secretary-Otis R. Bowen has been professor of family medicine at the University of Indiana School of Medicine...
...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...
...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...
...Orders like that can’t be graven in stone...
...Special Assistant to the President for Political and Governmental Affairs-Ceci Cole McInturff has been on the staff of the office of intergovernmental affairs...
...In WHITE HOUSE Assistant to the President for Political and InterGovernmental Affairs-Mitchell Daniels Jr...
...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...
...Louis...
...We were slightly surprised to learn that Nancy Reagan uses her press secretary, Elaine Crispen, like a Hollywood press agent...
...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...
...Long-time Reagan intimate Stuart Spencer pointed up the fact that there were no obvious replacements for Regan...
...Assistant Secretary for Health and EnvironmentMary L. Walker has been a private consultant on environmental and safety matters...
...EDUCATION Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights-Harry M. Singleton is resigning to do consulting work in Washington...
...Of three nominees for positions on the National Transportation Safety Board, only one, John K. Lauber, is generally respected...
...LABOR Undersecretary-Dennis Eugene Whitfield has been chief of staff for the U.S...
...Reagan has Crispen plant items in W and her other favorite publications...
...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...
...trade representative...
...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...
...INTERIOR Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs-Ross 0. Swimmer has been principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma...
...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...
...Even Michael Deaver, who once saw it as his duty to destroy Regan, is observing the new harmony, as is Regan antagonist Robert McFarlane...
...STATE Assistant Secretary for Human Rights-Richard Schifter has been a partner in the Washington law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson...
...has been deputy assistant to the president and director of the office of intergovernmental affairs...
Vol. 17 • December 1985 • No. 11
