Who's Who
WHO'S WHO Fred Barnes of The New Republic has confirmed the report in last month's "Who's Who" that Richard Darman is John Sununu's ally against William Reilly of the EPA. Barnes added a...
...They cite Sununu's re cent dismissal on NBC of those who oppose him on environmental issues as "fifth-level bureaucrats at EPA" and The New York Times report that "the career budget analysts who work under Mr...
...In—Defense: Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs— Enrique Mendez Jr...
...say he is con temptuous of them and their work and derides them in public" as evidence that Sununu and Darman scorn the government employee who is in a position to give them the kind of facts they need to make wise policy...
...Governor Richard Celeste of Ohio recently wrote Darman complaining that at a meeting in Washington '`you repeatedly belittled thoughtful points made by Governors Clinton and Campbell, and especially by Admiral Watkins" and "cavalierly" dismissed the need for American students to learn a foreign language with expressions like "who needs to know another Chi nese dialect...
...The CIA's disagreement with the Pentagon over the Russian threat has become widely known because William Webster and Dick Cheney have gone public with it...
...Barnes added a detail we hadn't known about the preparation of George Bush's speech on the environment to the Intergovernmental Panel Con Climate Change...
...Subsequently, we have learned of another of Califano's boys who has attained high rank in the Bush administration— Robert Zoellick, who as counselor to Secretary of State James Baker is second in influence over his boss only to Margaret Tutwiler...
...WHO'S WHO Fred Barnes of The New Republic has confirmed the report in last month's "Who's Who" that Richard Darman is John Sununu's ally against William Reilly of the EPA...
...Justice: Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights—John R. Dunne...
...Assistant Secretary for Production and Logistics—Colin Riley McMillan...
...When Jim Lehrer, during the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour of March 8, asked Samuel Skinner, the secretary of transportation, how he would characterize the department's new policy that had been unveiled that day, Skinner modestly replied, "Bold...
...Agencies and Commis sions: Chairman, U.S...
...Agencies and Commissions: Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration— John C. Lawn...
...Observers are curious as to why the plane, if its primary purpose is training, is equipped with plush carpeting, lounge chairs, private telephones, a bar, a stereo, and a television with a VCR...
...Civil Rights Commission —Arthur A. Fletcher...
...Out—Energy: Assistant Secretary for Management and Administration—Donna Fitzpatrick...
...Energy: Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy—Robert H. Gentile...
...Robson, by the way, has been Treasury's point man on the S&L bailout, and the experience has thus far not added luster to his reputation...
...In fact, the bailout is, according to one administration source, "blowing up in our face...
...Lehrer asked him about the administration's policy on buses, and Skinner, looking pained that anyone would bother him about such trivia, quickly dismissed the subject...
...As we were going to press, Timothy Ryan was said to be slated to replace Salvatore Martoche, who had just been named the temporary successor of the infamous M. Danny Wall, who resigned in December but was still serving because Robson couldn't find a replacement...
...Lehrer just happens to come from a family in the bus business and is such a devotee of the vehicle that he even owns one himself...
...A few months ago we asked how a Democrat could have influence in a Republican administration and explained that John Robson, the deputy secretary of the Treasury, was a former protege of Joseph Califano...
...It seems that the final draft of the speech was edited by Darman and Sununu at a dinner party at Vice President Dan Quayle's Naval Observatory residence...
...Another fact Barnes notes—that Darman and Sununu are so "arrogant and intimidating" that "few challenge them" in policy discussion within the administration— has become a matter of serious concern among veteran Washington observers...
...It's one of those things that's so bad that nobody wants to talk about it...
...Chairman, Postal Rate Commission— George W. Haley...
...Because the plane wasn't available, the inspectors have had to be granted waivers of the training requirements...
...Skinner, by the way, was recently nailed by Jack Anderson for using the department's Gulfstream G-IV jet so much that it has been unavailable for its supposed primary use, the training of government flight safety inspectors...
...The secretary then proceeded to reveal that his handlers had not briefed him well on his interviewer...
...Concern about Darman's arrogance is especially high...
...He does not regard the subject as trivial...
...Much less well known is the agency's disagreement with State about the Japanese, whom State still regards as benign and who the CIA suspects are out to kill us economically...
Vol. 22 • April 1990 • No. 3
