WHO'S WHO

WHO'S WHO In evaluating the Bush cabinet, Washington's insiders award their lowest ratings to Manuel Lujan, Dick Thornburgh, and Lauro Cavazos. The latest on Cavazos and his wife, Peggy Ann,...

...Transportation: Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration— Jerry Ralph Curry...
...Inspector General, Nuclear Regulatory Commission—David C. Williams...
...Energy: Assistant Secretary, Nuclear Energy— William H. Young...
...Justice: Deputy Attorney General: Donald Belton Ayer...
...The latest on Cavazos and his wife, Peggy Ann, who readers will recall likes to stay close to her spouse, is that, because Peggy Ann can fly free on TWA, where her son is employed, the secretary of education's travel plans incorporate an unusually high proportion of TWA flights...
...Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission—Jacqueline Jones-Smith...
...WHO'S WHO In evaluating the Bush cabinet, Washington's insiders award their lowest ratings to Manuel Lujan, Dick Thornburgh, and Lauro Cavazos...
...William Webster is said to be in peril of replacement at CIA by a president who never wanted him there in the first place...
...Housing and Urban Development: Assistant Secretary, Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity—Gordon H. Mansfield...
...In—Agriculture: Assistant Secretary, Administration— Adis Maria Villa...
...This reminds Washington observers of Richard Darman's appointment of Janet Hale to oversee HUD for OMB after Hale, while a HUD official, had ignored warnings that something was a bit amiss in her department...
...Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission— William P. Albrecht...
...A delay...
...For those who have wondered how anyone could afford to serve as an "unpaid campaign manager" in a major campaign, we offer the example of Ron A. Ober, who while performing that role for Dennis DeConcini's 1988 reelection campaign, received more than $80 million in unsecured loans for his firm from Lincoln Savings and Loan even though the firm had assets of no more than $2 million and liabilities of about $200 million...
...Treasury: Treasurer of the United States—Catalina Vasquez Villalpando: Inspector General—Donald E. Kirkendall...
...Another cabinet member whose reputation is in danger is Edward J. Derwinski of Veterans' Affairs, who tried to nominate as inspector general of his department one Raymond "John" Vogel, whose previous performance as the department's chief benefits officer was so marginal that Derwinski had decided to replace him...
...Lauro and Peggy Ann will," according to our favorite Cavazos watcher, Charlotte Hays, fly "all over the map to stick with TWA...
...Commerce: Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy—Deborah Wince-Smith, Defense: Assistant Secretary, Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence—Duane Perry Andrews...
...Well, the two have been known to fly through a passel of airports and devote the better part of the day to travel to avoid buying a ticket for Peggy Ann...
...The only thing that may save him is that Bush's two favorite candidates for the job, James Lilly, the ambassador to China, and Donald Gregg, the ambassador to South Korea, could not be confirmed by the Senate without having to answer embarrassing questions— in Lilly's case, about Bush's policy toward China, and in Gregg's, about Bush's Iran-contra connection, which Gregg, as national security adviser to thenVice President Bush, knew better than any other person...
...Agencies and Commissions: Director, ACTION— Jane A. Kenny...
...Veteran Affairs: Assistant Secretary for Acquisition and Facilities—David E. Lewis...
...Assistant Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency— James M. Strock...

Vol. 22 • February 1990 • No. 1


 
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