WHO'S WHO in the Administration
WHO'S WHO in the Administration Making bureaucratic enemies can be dangerous, as Michael Deaver has discovered. 'Rya he made at the White House have played key roles in his decline....
...Out—Defense Acting Assistant Secretary, International Security Policy—Frank J. Gaffney Jr...
...Ruder, an academic from Northwestern, does not have the experience or the political skills to push through the reforms that are necessary to protect the markets from the excesses that exacerbated the crash...
...During the plunge, David Ruder did exactly the wrong thing by nervously discussing the possibility of temporarily halting trading...
...Finally, the SEC is badly understaffed—while the size and activity of the market has ballooned in the past ten years, the SEC has remained unchanged—and Ruder does not appear to have the stomach to insist on budget increases...
...State: Assistant Secretary, Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs—John D. Negroponte...
...After we told you in November that James Burnley would not be confirmed as transportation secretary, and then in December that he "probably" would not, the Senate confirmed him anyway...
...To top it off, the man who should have been his greatest ally, fellow conservative Patrick Buchanan, was his worst enemy...
...Defense: Assistant Secretary, International Security Policy—Ronald F. Lehman II...
...He also proposes to make substantial personnel cuts...
...In—White House Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs—John D. Negroponte...
...That is why his colleagues are so concerned that he has decided not to seek reelection . . . . It appears that Frank Carlucci is planning to take some really sensible and effective steps toward reducing the Pentagon budget...
...Acting Secretary, Public Affairs—Fred J. Hoffman...
...William F. Burns...
...Assistant Secretary, Public Affairs—Dan Howard...
...Interior...
...He is 51 years old...
...Special Assistant to the President and Director, Public Affairs—Marion C. Blakey...
...If Carlucci actually succeeds in cutting a substantial amount of fat without harming essential muscle, he should be recognized as a national hero...
...He is said to intend, for example, to cancel two aircraft carriers that are now scheduled to be built...
...7teasury: Assistant Secretary, Management—John F.W...
...He should look first at the Air Force, which is the most featherbedded of the services, and then at the Pentagon civilian job force, which is also overmanned...
...Chairman, National Labor Relations Board—Donald L. Dotson...
...John Poindexter retired from the Navy last month with a pension of $52,764 a year...
...With annual cost of living adjustments, of course, the figure will be much higher...
...First Richard Allen, who blamed Deaver for the loss of his job as national security adviser, is said to have been the main source for the William Safire articles that helped get Deaver in trouble and kept his problem on the front burner...
...Energy: Assistant Secretary, Environment, Safety, and Health—Mary L. Walker...
...In the aftermath of the stock market plunge, insiders are asking if we have the right man in charge of the SEC...
...And he has done so in a job that ordinarily is the focus of intense criticism and as a red-meat conservative on a White House staff that has been dominated by a series of slightly right-of-center pragmatists...
...Commissioners, Federal Communications Commission—Bradley P. Holmes, Susan Wing...
...Agencies and Commissions: Deputy Director, Operations, Central Intelligence Agency—Claire E. George...
...But he has lasted seven years among the sea of sharks who swim in the waters of the White House...
...Agencies and Commissions: Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency—Ma...
...Our only consolation is that Burnley has had to eat more words than we have, apologizing to the Senate for past outbursts and promising to improve upon policies he has championed for years as the department's deputy secretary...
...Then Fred Fielding, who loved to fly on Air Force One but was always being bumped from the manifest by Deaver, provided important evidence against Deaver at his trial . . . Deaver's new book, Behind the Scenes, by the way, reveals that he was influential in not only Allen's ouster but in the departures of Alexander Haig, Donald Regan, William P. Clark, and James Watt as well . . . . Lawton Chiles has been a capable, decent, and thoughtful senator who has become an expert on the budget process...
...As a Washington survivor, Tony Dolan, the White House speechwriter, may not rank in the same league with such champions of bureaucratic tenacity as Hyman Rickover and J. Edgar Hoover...
...Washingtonians with long memories, however, are asking why, if Carlucci is sincere about making these reductions, did he go along with the extravagant increases in the Pentagon budget that Weinberger was making in 1981 and 1982 while Carlucci was his deputy...
...Director, Bureau of Mines—T.S...
...Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs—Charles N. Rostow...
...Interior: Director, Bureau of Mines—Robert Carlton Horton...
...If he lives 22 more years—as longevity tables indicate he will—his total pension income will be $1,160,808...
...Rogers...
...State Assistant Secretary, International Organization Affairs—Richard S. Williamson...
Vol. 19 • January 1988 • No. 12
