WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO White House and State Department aides are laughing about Chief of Protocol Joseph Reed’s growing propensity for inserting himself into groups consisting of George Bush and world...
...Health and Human Services: Assistant Secretary for Legislative AffairsSteven B. Kelmar...
...As recently as the Tuesday before Iraq invaded Kuwait, John H. Kelly, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, was testifying before Congress opposing sanctions against Iraq...
...Of course, that didn’t stop John Sununu, the guy who gave the order, from revealing her name to Washington Post reporter Ann Devroy...
...The punishment, unless she appeals, will be 15 days leave without pay...
...Stare: Legal Adviser-Edwin D. Williamson...
...Fish and Wildlife Service as a “threatened” species...
...The most recent manifestation of its resentment was the leak to the press of the plans for Baker’s hunting junket to Mongolia, in which it was revealed that the Mongolian government was going to let Baker kill a rare argali sheep, which it normally charges hunters $25,000 for a permit to shoot and which is described by the U.S...
...White House aides are irritated with Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter for his lackluster performance on the farm bill, which they contend did little to curb the natural appetite of lawmakers to pile on more subsidies...
...Justice: Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division-Robert S. Mueller 111, Assistant Attorney General, Legislative Affairs-W...
...Charlie’s the kind of guy who if he came home and found somebody making out with his wife on a rainy day, he’d break the guy’s umbrella and ask him to leave, then have him killed a year later,” Roger Ailes recently told Robin Toner of The New York Times...
...Roger Stone is a partner in Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly, the formidable Republican consultants who helped get George Bush elected...
...In-Commerce: Assistant Secretary for Trade DevelopmentTimothy John McBride...
...The State Department was so little concerned about the situation in Baghdad that it permitted our ambassador, April C. Glaspie, to be away on vacation during the time the invasion occurred...
...Some White House insiders believe the soft-spoken Black, less flamboyant and more comfortable with ideas than Atwater, will more effectively steer Republicans out of the savings and loan quagmire and other troubled waters than Atwater could have...
...As we explained to our readers last year, the State Department bureaucracy feels shut out by James Baker and his clique of top advisers...
...Such performances by State are one reason why a separate foreign affairs bureaucracy has grown up at the White House, with 60 or 70 bureaucrats of its very own...
...Agencies and Commissions: Securities and Exchange Commission, Member-Richard Y. Roberts...
...Former Senator John Tower is also making a comeback...
...Justice: Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division-Edward S. G. Dennis...
...Lee Rawls...
...Lee would blow the house up...
...Though it’s doubtful that the failed candidate for secretary of defense will ever get his preferred job, Tower, who recently was appointed by Bush to head the president’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, is said to have Bush’s ear on a wide array of spying matters...
...Treasury: Assistant Secretary for Domestic Finance-Jerome H. Powell...
...Fred Malek, who was tossed out of Bush’s 1988 campaign after revelations that he counted Jews for Richard Nixon, won plaudits from Bush for his performance in running the Houston Economic Summit, and is said to be slated for more assignments from the White House...
...Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel-J...
...OUf-Health and Human Services: Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs-Gerald L. Olson...
...WHO'S WHO White House and State Department aides are laughing about Chief of Protocol Joseph Reed’s growing propensity for inserting himself into groups consisting of George Bush and world leaders just as the photographers are about to snap their pictures Reed’s deputy, Jennifer Fitzgerald, who is widely rumored to be a former mistress of George Bush’s and who we reported in June was caught trying to sneak some furs through Customs, has been formally charged with “gross misconduct” by the State Department’s inspector general, not for fooling around with the president but for smuggling the skins...
...For example, that fellow who rushed up to Bush to hand him a memo as the president was stepping from his helicopter onto the White House lawn on the Sunday after the invasion was Richard N. Haass, the NSC’s own director of Near Eastern and South Asian affairs When Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater invited pro-choice Republicans into the GOP tent, he may have had in mind Roger Stone, a Republican political consultant who, with his wife, Ann Stone, founded Republicans for Choice...
...Assistant Secretary of Commerce-Wayne L. Berman...
...Charlie Black recently became the innocuous sounding “spokesman” for Atwater, who is suffering from a brain tumor...
...Michael Lutting...
...White House interns who shunted David Souter and runner-up Edith Jones, the federal appeals court judge, to and from the Oval Office, were told that for the rest of their lives they could never identify the “second person...
...Yeutter and his aides actually helped defeat the proposal, supported by OMB, among others, to outlaw subsidies to farmers with incomes over $100,000, thus proving an old Washington rule that after their first year in oEce cabinet secretaries tend to be more loyal to their constituencies than the administration to which they belong...
Vol. 22 • September 1990 • No. 8
