WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO The fear that George Bush will get the country into war in the Gulf has risen sharply among those who are close observers of the president. Headlines such as “Bush Wavers” were so...
...An earthquake...
...Labox Secretary-Elizabeth Dole...
...out-White House: Consumer Adviser-Bonnie Guiton, Director of Media Relations-Kristin Taylor...
...The bill that passed provides that “the reverse side of the half dollar, quarter dollar, dime coin, five-cent coin, and one-cent coin shall be selected for redesigning...
...Speaking of ambassadors, Steven Rhodes has resigned after serving less than five months as our man in Zimbabwe...
...John Sununu, who is widely considered to have been one of the villains of the budget negotiations because of his insistence on a capital gains tax cut and no higher taxes for the rich, was, according to our informants, a hero in the losing effort to get a Civil Rights Bill...
...Instead, they rent bulletproof limos with smaller windows...
...Charlotte Hays of The Washington Times has found the explanation...
...Baker talks about it solely with Geneva negotiator Richard Burt and has even cut out confidants Robert Kimmitt and Bob Zoellick...
...WHO'S WHO The fear that George Bush will get the country into war in the Gulf has risen sharply among those who are close observers of the president...
...The football star dispatched aides to tell people (like the press) that Jack threatened to resign over the agreement...
...Top aides hope Bush will boot the irascible Sununu and bring in pollster friend Robert Teeter...
...But Teeter, who “can’t manage his way out of a paper bag,” according to a friend, would need help from someone who can, perhaps Craig Fuller, Bush’s chief of staff in the eighties...
...Another hero, this time in the successful passage of the Clean Air Act, was OMB’s Bob Grady...
...Charles G. Douglas of New Hampshire has a dealer’s license plate on his Mercedes-Benz...
...Last spring, Michael Boskin, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, grimaced when the government directory, Congressional Source, omitted the “Dr...
...Except to California...
...The Sununu-Darman circle grew so tight during budget negotiations that even normally jovial White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater was angered and Alixe Glen, his talented deputy, became disenchanted and went to HHS...
...That’s the dark phrase that White House intimates were using to describe morale in early November...
...Hill insiders who have been trying to ascertain the motivation for the senator’s numismatic zeal have determined that it is not Charles Keating but a female friend of the senator’s who is responsible...
...It was, they say, Margaret Thatcher who, when she and Bush met in Aspen, Colorado, on August 3, managed to activate that fear and reverse the administration’s initial disinclination to use military force in the Gulf...
...Interior: Assistant Secretary for Policy, Budget, and AdministrationLouis Gallegos...
...Jack Kemp, the renowned back-bencher and HUD secretary, pined for attention during the budget deal with Democrats (remember that...
...Secretary of State James Baker, fearing Gorbachev’s imminent demise, is hungry for a quick START treaty...
...It seems that Peter Simmons, Douglas’s chief of staff, owns a Mercedes-Benz dealership and lets the congressman use the car for free, not, of course, as a kickback in return for his salary...
...In-Energy: Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs -Richard A. Claytor...
...Another job possibility for Martin is the now vacant position of director of the National Republican Institute for International Affairs...
...Along with Senators Warren Rudman and Arlen Specter, he favored a last-minute attempt to amend the bill to meet the administration’s concerns but was outmaneuvered by Dick Thornburgh, C. Boyden Gray, and Dan Quayle’s chief of staff, the conservative ideologue William Kristol, who saw making an issue out of affirmative action as more important than getting a civil rights bill enacted...
...Headlines such as “Bush Wavers” were so common over October budget stories that they were almost certain to activate, the observers say, Bush’s most severe neurosis-the fear of seeming to be a wimp...
...He dispatched a member of the council to complain...
...The latest victims are John Bushnell and George Fleming Jones, nominees for ambassadorships to Costa Rica and Guyana...
...Agencies and Commissions: Office of National Drug Control Policy, Director-William J. Bennett...
...When Bush travels, he takes his custom-made bulletproof limo with him...
...Simmons even acts as chauffeur, doing most of the driving for his employer...
...Lynn Martin, whom the White House persuaded to give up her House seat to take on Paul Simon, may be rewarded by being appointed to replace Elizabeth Dole as secretary of labor...
...in front of his name...
...Nixonesque...
...Federal Trade Commission, Member-Roscoe Burton Starek...
...The reason is not clear, but a clue is provided by one State Department official who told The Washington Post’s Ann Devroy: “There was an incident involving drugs...
...Discussions were held...
...For years, Jesse Helms has tormented them by holding up appointments for foreign service officers whose views displeased him...
...He is now gone...
...This is not a joke...
...National Science Foundation, DirectorWalter E. Massey...
...Housing and Urban Development: Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs-Mary Shannon Brunette...
...Senator Alan Cranston has introduced several bills proposing redesign of coins, one of which passed this year...
...Agencies and Commissions: Federal Maritime Commission, Chairman-Christopher L. Koch...
...Rep...
...Among the multitudes rooting for Harvey Gantt on November 6, none were more fervent than the members of the Foreign Service...
...The remedy...
...Secret Service officers fret the state has too many loonies who will try to take a shot at the car because it contains larger windows than conventional limos...
Vol. 22 • December 1990 • No. 11
