WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO George Bush sent his message to the convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers by Federal Express. Michael Dukakis sent his by Mailgram. Guess who won the convention's...
...Treasury: Secretary—Nicholas Brady...
...111—White House: Senior Domestic Affairs Aide—Danny L. Crippen...
...Commerce: Director of the U.S...
...and Foreign Commercial Service of the International Trade Administration—Alexander Good...
...If the election appears to be at all close, the candidate puts all his best people to work on the number one goal— victory at the polls...
...We hope they will heed the counsel we offer beginning on page 29...
...Agencies and Commissions: Chairman, Commission on Civil Rights—William Barclay Allen...
...Marcia Hale, for Dukakis, and Chase Untermeyer, for Bush...
...In case anyone has forgotten, Quayle's first response to the question at the convention about his motives in joining the Guard remains the best guide to his moral and intellectual qualities...
...In the real world this could have been done by one rather sleepy person...
...Speaking of Quayle, Adam Hochschild, who held the same kind of public information job in the Reserves as the Republican vice-presidential nominee did in the National Guard, and wrote about his "service" in the July 1971 issue of this magazine, describes his arduous duties: "My main job was being on the staff that produced our unit's internal newsletter—mimeographed once a week on a single sheet of legal-size paper...
...One former associate of Kimmitt tells us that he was not surprised by Kimmitt's insensitivity to influence-pulling...
...Guess who won the convention's endorsement .. The guilty parties in the selection of Dan Quayle as the Republican vice-presidential candidate include Robert Teeter, Roger Ailes, Robert M. Kimmitt, who didn't ask the right questions, and Nicholas F. Brady, Reagan's new secretary of the treasury and a close friend of George Bush, who said of Quayle: "He's willing to talk in short sentences and, like President Reagan, will take the risk of oversimplifying things so people can understand them ." But the principal villain was George Bush, who was responsible for not giving the rest of his staff a chance to debate Quayle's qualifications...
...Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency—John A. Moore...
...Pre-election transition chiefs almost never come from the candidate's first team...
...have already been named and are at work trying to match the right person to the right job...
...Agencies and Commissions: Commissioner, Interstate Commerce Commis...
...The transition teams for Dukakis and Bush appear to be way ahead of many of their predecessors...
...Elizabeth Dole's modest accomplishments in the realm of automobile safety were rewarded by these words spoken by Roger Smith, the head of General Motors, at a reception honoring the Doles in New Orleans: "Mrs...
...Kimmitt is the man who failed to get the facts from Dan Quayle...
...The reason is simple...
...Deputy Administrator, General Services Administration—Richard A. Austin...
...In the Reserves, it took a crew of three officers and half a dozen enlisted men...
...James Baker has tried to suggest to the press that he had nothing to do with Quayle's selection, but Kimmitt was Baker's general counsel at the Treasury Department and is widely suspected of being a BakerDarman mole during his service on the National Security Council...
...Director, National Cancer Institute—Alan S. Babson...
...Treasury: Assistarn Secretary for Domestic Finance—Charles 0. Sethness., Health and Human Services: General Counsel—Ronald E. Robertson...
...It was: "I did not know in 1969 that I'd be in this room today...
...Education: Assistant Secretary of Education—Chester E. Finn, Jr...
...Some even allege that Baker engineered Kimmitt's role in the vice-presidential screening process to make sure Jack Kemp did not survive it...
...Director, National Can-, cer Institute—Vincent T. DeVita, Jr...
...sion—Malcolm M. B. Sterrett...
...Unfortunately, our experience suggests that, even if they want to, they won't have the power...
...OUt—White House: Senior Domestic Affairs Aide-Kenneth T. Cribb, Jr...
...That is why most administrations botch the transition...
...Dole was just a super secretary of Transportation...
...Member, Merit Systems Protection Board—Samuel W. Bogley III...
...That, he says, is exactly what got Kimmitt his appointment to West Point and his excuse from duty in the Judge Advocate General's department, which was supposed to be his obligation after the military paid for his law school education...
Vol. 20 • October 1988 • No. 9
