WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO Insiders from the George Bush campaign credit three people, two of whom are virtual unknowns, for the three most crucial actions in the campaign. The Boston Harbor media event was...
...Special Trade Representative-Carla Hills...
...The pundits' corner was then graced by the addition of two more unusual patrons who entered in the most unusual of ways (through the back door)—Dan and Marilyn Quayle...
...Boyden Gray...
...White House Counsel-C...
...Interior: Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife-Becky Norton Dunlop...
...The reporters were David Hoffman and Ann Devroy...
...Agencies and Commissions: Director, Central Intelligence Agency-William Webster...
...One early clue as to the leaks in the Bush camp and the leakers in the press was a story the Post ran on page one on November 12 with the headline, "Fuller, Teeter, Sununu Eyed as Top Bush Team—Trio Would Run White House Operations" The suspected leakers were James Baker and Richard Darman, who did not want Sununu to assume power alone...
...Education: Secretary-Lauro Cavazos...
...Another person who deserves credit for the revolving-door commercial is Dennis Frankenberry, a Milwaukee advertising executive, who helped create it...
...Send your resumes to: Patricia M. Kearney for a job in the Department of Agriculture, Carol W Ford for Commerce, B. Reid Detchon for Energy, Richard W. Porter for Labor, Antonio Lopez for Veterans Affairs, Margaret D. Garikes for Health and Human Services, Michael Marino for Hous48 The Washington Monthly/January 1989 ing and Urban Development, Michael M. Uhlmann for Justice, Lynette B. Lenard for Interior, D. Robert Quartel Jr...
...Write Office of the President-Elect, 1825 Connecticut Ave N.W., Washington, D.C...
...Defense: Secretary-John G. Tower...
...And the person who relaxed Bush before the latter's victory in the second debate was Roger Ailes, who also managed to make Michael Dukakis angry by signaling from the Bush side of the stage to the Dukakis side, just before the debaters walked onto the stage that he knew the Democrats had secretly planted a height booster behind the Duke's podium...
...Bush Administration: III-White House: Chief of Staff-John H. Sununu...
...Housing and Urban Development: Secretary-Jack F. Kemp...
...The Boston Harbor media event was staged by Ron Kaufman...
...National Security Adviser-Brent Scowcroft...
...Competing for his attention was the sight of two interesting, if not regular, patrons, Meg Greenfield and George Will, who were seated in the rear...
...Ambassador to the United NationsThomas Pickering...
...But it is wise to remember that final decisions on important jobs are made by a committee consisting of Robert M. Teeter, James A. Baker III, Nicholas F. Brady, John H. Sununu, Craig Fuller (yes, he still has some power in the transition), George Bush himself, and Chase Untermeyer, who is called personnel director of the transition, but who serves more as recording secretary of this group rather than as a full-fledged member...
...Crampton for the Environmental Protection Agency...
...Now for some practical help for our readers who are interested in joining the new administration...
...The use of Willie Horton was the inspiration of Jim Pinkerton...
...And the first announced Quayle appointment, David Beckwith as press secretary, was a Bush friend named despite Quayle's protest . . . . A trusted friend of ours reports that one Saturday last month, as a gesture to domestic harmony, he repaired to the Chevy Chase Lounge to watch sports on television...
...As one observed: "It's horrible this being in the dark . . . .I thought we won ." What seems to be happening is that the Bush people are telling Quayle whom to hire...
...Labor: Assistant Secretary, Mine Safety and Health Administration-David C. O'Neal...
...Office of Management and Budget-Richard Darman...
...The story, of course, turned out to be wrong . . . . Reagan Administration: In-Energy: Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy-John R. Berg...
...Agriculture: Secretary-Clayton Yeutter...
...Curiously enough, Frankenbury himself, according to Richard Gonzales of National Public Radio, had been the beneficiary of a work-release program after being convicted of hitandrun drunk driving, in a case in which one of his victims suffered brain damage . . . . Dan Quayle's Senate staff members are upset...
...State: SecretaryJames A. Baker III...
...Treasury: Secretary-Nicholas F. Brady...
...As of mid-December, none had been offered jobs in the new administration...
...Early signs can be clues to longrange patterns as was the case with the relationship of Michael Deaver and Lou Cannon of The Washington Post during the 1980 campaign, which continued through Reagan's first term...
...Press Secretary-Marlin Fitzwater...
...Quayle's official representative at Bush headquarters is Fred Fielding, who is much more a Bush than a Quayle man...
...Commerce: Secretary-Robert Mosbacher...
...They were joined shortly by Charles Krauthammer...
...Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers-Michael Boskin...
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...One of the great Washington games is trying to figure out which administration figures are leaking to which reporters...
...for Transportation, and Lewis S.W...
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