WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO Why does the White House seem to have no communications strategy, with a president whose day, as The Washington Post put it, often offers "a jumble of public events, tumbling over and...
...After George Bush and John Sununu, the man insiders say is most to blame is David F. Demarest Jr., the White House communications director...
...Agencies and Commissions: Member, National Labor Relations Board—Wilford W. Johansen...
...Member, Federal Home Loan Bank Board—Lawrence J. White...
...The leading beneficiary of Bush's hostility toward David Hoffman of The Washington Post (see "Who's Who," April) is Ann Devroy, of the same paper, who is the recipient of leaks from the White House staff that are designed to make her look good in her competition with Hoffman for the esteem of her editors...
...Agencies and Commissions: Chairman, Federal Trade Commission—Janet Steiger...
...Peter McPherson...
...Allan Bromley...
...Tutwiler's anxiety about the situation is said to explain her decision to use a cubbyhole office adjoining Baker's instead of the much grander chambers available to an assistant secretary for public affairs, a decision that has the incidental effect of leaving her hundred or so subordinates in the public affairs office feeling leaderless most of the time . . Baker has worries of his own...
...Treasury: Deputy Secretary—M...
...Member, Federal Home Loan Bank Board—Roger F. Martin...
...He will be replaced this month by Wiliam Kristol, the son of the neoconservative guru Irving Kristol...
...From the time he leaked a story last fall describing himself as "deputy president" in the new administration, George Bush has consulted him less and less about matters outside the realm of foreign affairs...
...As many people expected, Robert Guttman's tenure as Dan Quayle's chief of staff was short-lived...
...The younger Kristol is even more conservative than his father, is reported to have been the author of Quayle's speeches attacking the "godlessness" of the Soviet Union, and is also said to believe that Richard M. Nixon's policy towards the Soviet Union was "too soft...
...Treasury: Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy—Sidney L. Jones...
...In—White House: Science Adviser—D...
...WHO'S WHO Why does the White House seem to have no communications strategy, with a president whose day, as The Washington Post put it, often offers "a jumble of public events, tumbling over and into each other with no apparent theme and little success in dominating the news...
...Agriculture: Chief of Staff—Patricia M. Kearney...
...Cynics suggest that Teeter recommended Demarest because he thought Demarest's talents were dim enough that he would represent absolutely no threat to Teeter's power...
...Out—Health and Human Services: Director of the National Institutes of Health—James B. Wyngaarden...
...One rumor going around the State Department is that Janet Mullins, the assistant secretary for legislative affairs, is replacing Margaret Tutwiler as James Baker's closest confidant...
...He was chosen for the position by Robert Teeter when Teeter thought he was going to be the Michael Deaver of the Bush administration, with broad control over White House image-making...
Vol. 21 • June 1989 • No. 5
