WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO When George Bush chastised Michael Dukakis for making fun of the name J. Danforth Quayle, he must have forgotten the way he pronounced the name of Pierre du Pont when du Pont was one...
...Bush ran into Malek at a cocktail party and out of nowhere asked him to manage the Republican convention and play a leading role in the campaign...
...It was when we reported that while serving as deputy director of OMB, he called officials at the Department of Energy to set up a meeting to "discuss" a $16 million government fine against the Anchor Gasoline Company...
...WHO'S WHO When George Bush chastised Michael Dukakis for making fun of the name J. Danforth Quayle, he must have forgotten the way he pronounced the name of Pierre du Pont when du Pont was one of his opponents for the Republican nomination . . . Quayle was not the only important personnel choice Bush made hastily and without consultation...
...Agencies and Commissions: Member, Securities and Exchange Commission— Mary L. Schapiro...
...Agencies and Commissions: Member, Securities and Exchange Commission—Aulana L. Peters...
...It seems to have been part of the effort to make Dukakis seem human, but it ended up an embarrassing case of not having his facts straight in one of the two debates that could be crucial to his candidacy...
...Joseph C. Wright Jr., the new director of the Office of Management and Budget, has been in "Who's Who" before...
...in—White House: Director, Office of Management and Budget—Joseph R. Wright Jr...
...Oa—White House: Director, Office of Management and Budget—James C. Miller M. Education: General Counsel—Wendell L. Willkie IL State: Assistant Administrator, Agency for International Development—Julia Chang Bloch...
...He did not check Malek's background, with the result that he did not find out until too late about Malek's infamous investigation into the number of Jews at the Bureau of Labor Statistics when he worked for Nixon...
...Instead, his boss, James C. Miller, said, "You retain my complete confidence," and now Wright has been rewarded with a promotion to the directorship...
...Our best information is that John Sasso was the guilty party...
...Wright owned $250,000 in Anchor stock, and his father was president of the company...
...And who slipped the Duke that story about the boy who wouldn't play baseball because his family didn't have health insurance...
...There's Frederic V. Malek, the former Nixon aide whose penchant for passing the other cars in line was cited here a couple of months ago...
...Since OMB has extensive power over both the budget and the regulations of the Department of Energy, it seemed to us this action should have resulted in at least a serous reprimand for Wright...
...After Bob Woodward printed the BLS story in The Washington Post, Malek was forced to leave the Bush campaign . . . . In our relentless pursuit of the inside skinny, we are offering a three-year subscription to the first person who will tell us who put Dukakis in that tank...
...Among the governor's advisers, there is understandable shyness about claiming this honor...
Vol. 20 • November 1988 • No. 10
