Who's Who
WHO'S WHO Does Nicholas Brady think someone else is secretary of the treasury and that he is merely a friend of the president who has been given a nice office next door to the White House?...
...Watkins, by the way, was recently red-faced when one of his subordinates mistakenly faxed to governors around the country a confidential list of various environmental disasters in which the DOE had a hand...
...As the new chairman, he will bring first-hand experience with discrimination to the commission's deliberations...
...Treasury: Director, Office of Thrift Supervision—T...
...WHO'S WHO Does Nicholas Brady think someone else is secretary of the treasury and that he is merely a friend of the president who has been given a nice office next door to the White House...
...Labor: Acting Inspector General— Raymond Maria...
...Federal Emergency Management Agency, Director—Robert H. Morris...
...We have since learned that Ronald Reagan rewarded Kosinski with an appointment to the United States Court of Appeals on the Ninth Circuit, where he now sits...
...Evan J. Kemp Jr...
...is the first person from the ranks of the disabled to be named a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
...In—Commerce: Undersecretary for Technology— Robert M. White...
...Federal Emergency Management Agency, Director—Wallace Stickney...
...Agencies and Commissions: CIA, General Counsel—Elizabeth Rindskopf...
...Timothy Ryan Jr...
...Out—Health and Human Services: Acting Assistant Secretary for Family Support Administration—Eunice S. Thomas...
...The confirmation hearings on Richard D. Austin's nomination to be head of the General Services Administration have revealed that Austin, as acting director, kept a political appointee he had hired at the request of Robert Michel, the House Republican leader, on the payroll from the time the appointee was convicted of bank fraud until he was actually jailed, even giving him a raise during that period...
...Agencies and Commissions: CIA, General Counsel—Russell J. Breummer...
...Deputy Director—Jerry Jennings...
...Resolution Trust Corporation, Inspector General—John J. Adair...
...Labor: Inspector General— Julian W. De La Rosa...
...It's not that he's stupid: as chairman of the Brady Commission after the 1987 stock market crash, he seemed to understand much of what had gone wrong...
...It's just that he seems to feel removed from responsibility for using his authority as the nation's chief financial officer to right the wrongs in the financial system...
...Michel has been the chief sponsor of Austin's nomination...
...Observers here are becoming increasingly suspicious that such thoughts must be the explanation for Brady's pale performance thus far...
...Those who read Alexander Kippen's article in our February issue will recall its report that in 1982, Alex Kosinski, who then headed the Office of Special Counsel, which was supposed to make sure that whistleblowers got a fair hearing, was forced to resign after being accused of teaching federal managers how to fire whistleblowers...
...After graduating near the top of his class at the University of Virginia Law School in 1954, he was turned down by all 39 law firms he applied to because he was in a wheelchair...
...Health and Human Services: Assistant Secretary for Family Support Administration— Jo Anne B. Barnhart...
...Speaking of whistleblowers, James Watkins, the secretary of energy, has ordered DOE contractors not to discriminate against the contractors' employees who file complaints about violation of safety and environmental rules...
...Karen Silkwoods will be protected from unjust retaliation by the contractor...
...Finally, he was able to get a job with the government...
Vol. 22 • May 1990 • No. 4
