WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO James Baker's protected status as the favorite source of the Washington press corps has never been better illustrated than by the story of his $2.9 million worth of stock in Chemical...
...Kassebaum had told Bush the week before that she would oppose Tower...
...Sununu has yet to gain the notoriety of the other two, but it will come...
...The real reason Craig Fuller was not given a top job in the administration is that George Bush suspected him of being the number one source of David Hoffman of The Washington Post, and George Bush hates Hoffman...
...State: Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research— Morton I. Abramowitz...
...Perhaps Sununu can pin the blame on Rhett Dawson, the head of the Pentagon transition team, who had told the White House in early January that the nomination was "fixed" and that there was nothing to worry about . . . If Sununu self-destructs, it won't, insiders say, be the fault of his deputy, Andy Card, who is considered one of the administration's brightest young prospects...
...Ambassador to Sweden—Charles Redman...
...Ambassador to Luxembourg—Frederick Bush...
...In fact, he and Hoffman are said to have come close to fisticuffs during the recent campaign . . . The consensus here is that Bush's three major mistakes are named Quayle, Tower, and Sununu...
...Owen Ullman, the reporter who let this cat out of the bag is not, it should be noted, one of Hoffman's devoted admirers...
...Ambassador to Italy— Peter Secchia...
...By agreeing to sell the stock, he has apparently put an end to the faint murmurs of media criticism that have been stirred by the disclosure of his holdings in January...
...Ambassador to France—Walter J.P...
...General Counsel—Francis Keating...
...WHO'S WHO James Baker's protected status as the favorite source of the Washington press corps has never been better illustrated than by the story of his $2.9 million worth of stock in Chemical National Bank...
...Housing and Urban Development: Undersecretary— Alfred DelliBovi...
...Justice: Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division—William Lucas...
...State: Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs—John R. Bolton...
...Assistant Secretary of Defense for Congressional Affairs—Margo Carlisle...
...Three of its most important potential regulators James Watkins of Energy, Samuel Skinner of Transportation, and William Reilly of the EPA—have at least been talking a tougher line than was customary with their predecessors who served with Ronald Reagan . . . C. Boyden Gray, the White House counsel, is said to be close to George Bush...
...Spokesperson—Charles Redman...
...Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research—Douglas P. Mulholland...
...Health and Human Services: Undersecretary—Constance Horner...
...Assistant Secretary for Trade Development—Michael Philip Skarzynski...
...Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research—John Welcher...
...Out—Defense: Assistant Secretary of Defense— Ronald F. Lehman...
...If a Bert Lance or an Ed Meese had been guilty of the same thing, there would have been editorials demanding his head, followed by a congressional investigation and the appointment of a special prosecutor...
...That may turn out to be important, for it appears that he is going to need a friend in high places to save his job...
...But what concerns us is that he was secretary of the treasury, making policies that favored major banks, while he concealed his substantial holdings in one of them...
...Ambassador to 1brkey—Morton I. Abramowitz...
...This has antagonized the foreign service, which is itself extremely well connected with the media and has been busily spreading stories of discontent...
...It is possible, however, that Baker's honeymoon with the press may be endangered by his current attempt to run the State Department through Margaret Tutwiler and a handful of other aides he has brought in with him...
...Commerce: Assistant Secretary for Administration—Thomas J.- Collamore...
...In—Agriculture: Deputy Secretary—Jack Callihan Parnell...
...Energy: Undersecretary— John Tuck...
...Ambassador to Canada—Thomas M. Niles...
...Transportation: Deputy Secretary—Elaine L. Chao...
...Defense: Secretary—Richard Cheney...
...Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs—Gerald L. Olson...
...Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development—Anna Kondratas...
...Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs—William Douglas Fritts Jr...
...Just two nights before the Tower vote, Sununu assured White House colleagues that all Senate Republicans, including Nancy Kassebaum, would support Tower...
...Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy— Deborah Wince-Smith...
...Others in that category include Bob Grady at OMB and Ron Kaufman at the White House...
...Kaufman, you will remember, was the mastermind of Bush's Boston Harbor appearance and of the endorsement of Bush by the Boston police . . . . There appears to be a chance that the policy of reckless deregulation followed by the Reagan administration may be abandoned by the Bush team...
...Agencies and Commissions: Director of the Federal Aviation Administration—Allan McArtor...
...He has already alienated a powerful columnist, William Safire, and the most powerful cabinet member, James Baker...
...Treasury: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Review and Analysis—Desiree Tucker...
...Head of the United States Mission to the European Economic Community—Thomas M. Niles...
...Curley Jr...
...Agencies and Commissions: Director, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency—Ronald F. Lehman...
...Ambassador to Spain—Joseph Zappala...
...Undersecretary for International Affairs— Richard Crowder...
Vol. 21 • April 1989 • No. 3
