WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO With Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis in almost a dead heat at the beginning of last month, Democratic Washington was busy speculating on the nominees that might emerge from a...
...Education: Assistant Secretary, Postsecondary Education—C...
...The other, which we find more credible, is that he doesn't think he's ready...
...Justice: Associate Attorney Gereral—Francis A. Keating...
...Justice: Deputy Attorney General—Arnold I. Burns...
...Associate Director, Office of Public Liaison—Curt W. Anderson...
...Philip Hughes...
...See "Tilting at Windmills...
...Labor: Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health—David C. O'Neal...
...Defense: Assistant Secretary for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence, SDI Organization—Dr...
...Then Gergen would go in and tower over it like Ichabod Crane...
...Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division—William F. Weld...
...He was never able to figure out why the podium struck him well below the waist...
...Commerce: Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement—G...
...For all the conversation sparked by Larry Speakes's new book, Speaking Out, its most telling anecdotes have received no attention...
...With the presidency, the opening comes only every four years and those willing to support you now may have another favorite the next time around...
...Robert "Bud" McFarlane is described as the "best" of Reagan's first four National Security Council directors—who also included Richard Allen, William Clark, and John Poindexter=tut Bud was certainly no superstar...
...Associate Deputy Attorney General—Boykin Rose...
...Before Gergen would brief, Mark Weinberg of my staff would go out and drop the podium to its lowest height...
...If the choice were left to Democrats in the Senate, it is clear that the race would come down to three men: Bill Bradley, Sam Nunn, and a third senator, who, although urged to run in both 1984 and 1988, refused because of concern about the problems that might arise when the news of his long-term mistress inevitably emerged...
...Undersecretary for Export Administration— Paul Freedenberg...
...Since the senator is a wise and able man who many think would make an excellent president, one veteran observer we know points to this as a case where the media's fascination with the sex lives of political leaders has done more harm than good...
...Thansportation: Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs—Edward R. Hamburger...
...WHO'S WHO With Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis in almost a dead heat at the beginning of last month, Democratic Washington was busy speculating on the nominees that might emerge from a brokered convention...
...Gergen, Speakes further alleges, was "extremely disorganized" and "always trying to stab me in the back ." After Speakes told a reporter that Darman was "the ultimate second-guesser," Darman wrote this personal and confidential message to Speakes: "It has been my experience that the wheel turns 'round and 'round in this town...
...Gordon A. Smith...
...Thus "while [James] Brady was lying at death's door in the hospital, Gergen went to Baker and suggested that he be given the title of press secretary in place of Brady...
...State: Assistant Secretary and Coordinator for International Communication and Information Policy— Diana Lady Dougan...
...Associate Attorney General—Stephen S. 'Lott...
...In—White House: Director of the Office of Cabinet Affairs—Kay Woodward...
...Health and Human Services: Assistant Secretary for Legislation—Ronald F. Docksai...
...Speakes attributes the mediocrity of the NSC to the fact "the president and his top aides—Jim Baker, Ed Meese, Mike Deaver, and Don Regan had such low regard for the position of NSC director that they paid little attention to those who held the post ." The quality of NSC subordinates reflected that of their superiors...
...Ronald Kimberling...
...Out—White House: Associate Director, Office of Public Liaison—Mildred J. Webber...
...In either case, our veteran observer thinks Bradley may be making a mistake: "Golden boys like Bradley and Pete Dawkins get so many job offers in their twenties and thirties they get to thinking that life is always going to let them choose what they want to do and when they want to do it, but the cruel fact is that the closer the golden boy gets to the top the less it is likely that the openings are going to conveniently coincide with his own timetable...
...Please be assured that the next time I am in a position to influence the prospects of your success, failure, or capacity to serve, I shall remember your thoughts ." Speakes could be similarly gracious to those he felt had been unkind to him: He liked to call attention to Gergen's resemblance to a giraffe: "The podium in the briefing room is motorized so that you can adjust its height...
...There are two explanations for Bradley's failure to make himself available...
...Speakes tells of a call from Karna Small, who worked very closely under McFarlane, before the inauguration, inquiring as to whether the event would take place "at the White House or the Capitol ." Even White House almuni such as Richard Darman and David Gergen, who previously had had few gloves laid on them by critics, do not escape Speakes's stiletto...
...Associate Deputy Attorney General—Randy L. Levine...
...Nunn is not running, his friends say, because the position he has attained in the Senate has given him all the power he wants...
...The cynical one is that he thinks a depression is coming and he doesn't want to be Herbert Hoover...
Vol. 20 • May 1988 • No. 4
