WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO Who are the three individuals in the White House who have gained the most from the Gulf crisis? George Bush is clearly the leading beneficiary. Less obvious are the other two, John...
...I truly mean that...
...Agencies and Comn?i.s.sions: Administrator, Small Business Administration-Susan S. Engeleiter...
...Another minor White House aide, Ede Holiday’s deputy, Olin Wethington, is not enjoying similar success in his effort to play a major role-in his case, in energy policy...
...Director, Selective Service System-Samuel K. Lessey Jr...
...I think the president’s said enough about this to be properly credited with a significant role in this...
...In-Agriculrur-e: Secretary-Edward Madigan...
...Out-Agriculrur-e: Secretary-Clayton K. Yeutter...
...If you have wondered whether there are any doves in the White House, the answer is not now...
...The White House is hoping to profit from the wellheeled connections of former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who lives in Newport Beach, California, and knows many people with lots of money...
...And what else...
...Ueberroth has become head of the publicly financed, $20 million National Tree Trust, Bush’s tree-planting initiative...
...Clayton Yeutter, the new RNC chief, is not acting like the “breath of fresh air” that Rep...
...But there were some before January 16...
...After all, Transportation Secretary Sam Skinner and Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher both turned down the dead-end job...
...When he was cditor of the student paper at the University of Tennessee, he was a strong advocate of the admission of blacks to what was then an all-white institution...
...Despite efforts by some RNC dissidents to oust Richard Darman, the OMB director has consolidated his power...
...ensuring that the domestic agenda would reflect his imprint...
...And when he became president of the University of Tennessee, he hired the school’s first black vice president...
...Pinkerton pauses and hunts down an April speech where the phrase ‘New Paradigm’ fell from prcsidential lips...
...White House: Associate Director, Office of Cabinet AffairsBarry McBee, Special Assistant for Agriculture Trade and Food Assistance-Cooper Evans, Assistant for Management and Administration-J...
...It won’t work, say GOP operatives, who are less than thrilled with Yeutter’s selection...
...He dominated the drafting of the president’s State of the Union address...
...Sununu, Mosbacher, and Robert Teeter are fighting for control of the 1992 campaign...
...Dannan continues to feud with Roger Porter, the president’s assistant for economic and domestic policy, who has decided to forfeit his tenure at Harvard and remain at the White House...
...Perhaps there is a hint of the answer in the fact that George Bush, his counsel, C. (for Clayland) Boyden Gray, and his chief of protocol, Joseph D. Reed, have all been members of the Jupiter Island Club, an exclusive residential community in Hobe Sou of which have historically barred Lamar Alexander seems likely to minority scholarships than some of his conservative subordinates at the Department of Education...
...Less obvious are the other two, John Sununu, whose involvement in the budget bungle and the William Bennett fiasco were mercifully obscured by the fog of war, and Richard Haass, whose climb from a very minor role on the Middle East desk of the National Security Council to the status of key player was fueled by the rapidly escalating importance of the Gulf...
...Wethington’s enterprise is not widely appreciated by other government officials involved in energy issues Outside the White House, the administrati gainer from the war has been Dick Cheney, who just last summer was reported to be out of the foreign policy loop, fishing in Wyoming while the insiders were preparing for the summit...
...When Jason DeParle, an alumnus of this magazine who is now with The New Yor-k Times, asked Jim Pinkerton, the White House aide who says George Bush is “the first president to govern in the spirit of The New Paradigm,” for specific examples of New Paradigm presidential actions, the conversation went like this: “Civil rights for the disabled,” he says...
...Most decisions will be made by White House chief of staff John Sununu...
...Germain, then the chairman of the House Banking Committee...
...Despite Yeutter’s stale attempt to bring the Gulf war to congressional districts with his vow to ostracize lawmakers who voted against war, the former agriculture secretary is no Lee Atwater...
...WHO'S WHO Who are the three individuals in the White House who have gained the most from the Gulf crisis...
...Tr-crnsporrurion: General Counsel-Phillip D. Brady...
...had heeded an early 1988 memo from his chief investigator, Gary Bowser, recommending that hearings be held on Lincoln...
...Bonnie Newman, Deputy to Chief of Staff-James W. Cicconi...
...Many observers have wondered why there are so few Jews in high positions in the current administration...
...Congressional Democrats, whose annual lobbyistfinanced retreat at the lavish Greenbrier Hotel has come under criticism recently, have decided to try to avoid unpleasant comment by a change of venue to the Williamsburg Inn, which on a scale of posh probably rates an eight or nine to the Greenbrier’s IO, but still abounds in tasteful luxury plus golf and tennis...
...They were outside the small circle involved in the decision to go to war and did not speak up because of bureaucratic caution, and because they believed Saddam Hussein would cave Much of Charles Keating’s Lincoln Savings and Loan disaster could have been prevented if Fernand St...
...Beryl Anthony called him when the former Nixon fundraiser joined the Reagan team in 1987...
...Agencies md Conimissions: Director, Selective Service SystemRobert William Gambino...
...White House: Staff Secretary-Phillip D. Brady...
...Sincerely...
Vol. 23 • March 1991 • No. 3
