WHO'S WHO in the Administration
WHO'S WHO in the Administration The clear winner in the January job swap was Donald Regan. In Washington power terms, the White House chief of staff outranks any cabinet member. On the other...
...In 1980, Hill & Knowlton, having paid a large salary to Republican Robert Gray for the four long years of the Carter administration, was finally looking forward to capitalizing on its investment during the Reagan administration...
...JUSTICE Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy and Counselor to the Attorney General—Tex Lezar will join the Dallas law firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal...
...Deputy Secretary—Richard Darman has been deputy White House chief of staff...
...Chief of Staff, Office'of the Vice President—Admiral Daniel J. Murphy will return to a national security post...
...This will be especially true if Deaver's closest allies on the White House staff—Mike McManus, Bill Henkel, and Bill Sittman—follow him out the door...
...Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs— Robert A. McConnell has been named vice president of CBS, Inc...
...In WHITE HOUSE Chief of Staff—Donald Regan has been secretary of the treasury...
...AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency—Alvin L. Alm has resigned...
...DEFENSE Acting Undersecretary for Research and Engineering—James P. Wade Jr...
...Appearance is of course the name of the game in the public relations business...
...TREASURY Secretary—James A. Baker HI has been White House chief of staff...
...Chairman, Federal Election Commission—John W. McGarry has been a commission member since 1978...
...for Washington in charge of regulatory and legislative affairs...
...EDUCATION Secretary—William J. Bennett has been chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities...
...Now Deaver is leaving the White House to form his own public relations firm with the idea of being the new Bob Gray...
...INTERIOR Secretary—William P. Clark is resigning to return to ranching in California...
...has been principal deputy undersecretary...
...Instead, Gray left and founded his own firm, the success of which is based on the perception that he has "close ties" to the White House...
...Now in his late sixties, he is a man who not only is not used to buttering up the boss but is more used to getting the credit than making sure, or appearing to make sure, that it gets to the top...
...In fact, except for Ed Meese, whose power declined precipitously after the first year, Gray had no ties to the West Wing, and every one of his proposals was sabotaged by Deaver, who hated him...
...Furthermore, his celebrity guarantees reporters will give him star billing, even if he doesn't want it...
...On the other hand, people who know Reagan and Regan foresee a conflict not far down the road...
...ENERGY Secretary—John S. Herrington has been White House personnel director...
...WHO'S WHO in the Administration The clear winner in the January job swap was Donald Regan...
...JUSTICE Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs— Phillip A. Brady has been congressional and public affairs director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service...
...He has been a boss for so long that whatever skills he cultivated on the way to the top have been long forgotten...
...INTERIOR Secretary—Donald P. Hodel has been secretary of energy...
...Unlike Reagan's previous close staff members, Regan is not schooled in the arts of the courtier...
...AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission— Terrence M. Scanlon has been a member since 1983...
...But given the lack of political sophistication American business has demonstrated, it is highly likely that Michael Deaver, like Gray during the previous four years, will make money on the basis of appearance, not fact...
...STATE Ambassador to Switzerland—Faith Ryan Whittlesey has been assistant to the president for public liason...
...Press Secretary, Office of the Vice President—Peter E. Teeley will form a consulting firm in Washington...
...So when the umpteenth story appears crediting Donald Regan with some accomplishment, Ronald Reagan (or Nancy) will blow up...
...Out WHITE HOUSE Deputy Chief of Staff—Michael K. Deaver has resigned...
...The joke is that because of the vindictiveness he displayed on the job, and not just toward Gray, Deaver has left so many enemies behind that it is almost certain every one of his proposals will be sabotaged...
...But that principle has been carried to the point of absurdity by the story of Hill & Knowlton, Robert Gray, and Michael Deaver...
Vol. 17 • February 1985 • No. 1
