WHO'S WHO
WHO’S WHO When asked about the State Department instructions that authorized Ambassador April Glaspie to give Saddam Hussein a wink as he prepared to invade Kuwait last July, James Baker made...
...Rollins angered John Sununu by advising GOP lawmakers to disassociate themselves from George Bush’s reversal on tax policy...
...One insider confided to Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times, “He can play Cheney and Powell off against Baker, which gives him a new boldness...
...Newt Gingrich, the Republican whip, has engaged in trench warfare with hopeful Rep...
...Vice President Dan Quayle’s deputy chief of staff, Spencer Abraham, replaces Ed Rollins as co-chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee...
...Smith’s arrival also seems to further erode the modest power of David Demarest, the White House communications director...
...Abraham’s successor: AI Hubbard, Quayle’s counsel from Indiana and former fundraiser for Pierre DuPont’s unsuccessful 1988 GOP bid...
...White House: Assistant to the President for Public Affairs-Dorrance C. Smith, Chief Speechwriter-Tony Snow, Political Director-Ronald Kaufman, Director of the Office of Political Affairs-David Carney...
...White House aides are bracing for a power struggle over who will emerge as the president’s image king...
...Agencies and Commissions: Governor, Federal Reserve Board-Martha R. Seger...
...Outs-Housing and Urban Development: Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Relations-Timothy L. Coyle...
...We should have included Brent Scowcroft’s name in last month’s list of administration figures whose careers were enhanced by Desert Storm...
...Roger Bolton...
...Ins-Commerce: Deputy Secretary-R...
...White House: National Security Advisor to the Vice Prcsident4arnes Lord, Chief Speechwriter4hris.s Winston, Political Director-Ed Rogers...
...Apparently Bush felt Keller deserved a paid vacation...
...Anthony Schnabel, Undersecretary for Travel and Tourism-John Keller...
...Scowcroft and Dick Cheney were consistently more hawkish about war in the Gulf than James Baker and thus more finely attuned to the biggest hawk of all, George Bush...
...By long-standing custom, they are all signed with the secretary of state’s name, even though he may never see them...
...Of course, insiders know that 311,000 of those cables are concerned with trivial housekeeping details, such as when some minor-league bureaucrat is going to arrive in Lagos...
...Treasury: Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs-J...
...Conservative Sovietologists were thrilled that Condoleezza Rice, the president’s assistant for Soviet affairs and one of the most liberal policy voices in the administration, returned to Stanford University...
...Vin Weber...
...Smith is expected to be the gatekeeper of network appearances for senior aides, a job that Marlin Fitzwater largely controlled and Rogich wanted...
...Scowcroft is close to both Cheney and General Colin Powell...
...Housing and Urban Development: Assistant Secretary for AdministrationJames E. Tarro, Assistant Secretary for HousingArthur J. Hill...
...The antiGorbachev crowd suspects that James Baker had a hand in the Hewett appointment- part of his continuing quest to undermine Scowcroft’s deputy, Robert Gates...
...The author, Jeffrey Toobin, thinks Abrams should have been indicted and that McFarlane, who some deem the guiltiest of the guilty, should not have been permitted to escape with a plea bargain and no jail time...
...Washington’s premier plum, the Commerce undersecretary for travel and tourism, has gone to John Keller, the former director of presidential advance, one of the most grueling jobs around...
...The remainder, like the ones instructing Glaspie, are concerned with policy, and they are not only signed with Baker’s name but are cleared with him or his top aides...
...Some say Rogers walked the gangplank to fend off criticism of his boss, while others suggest that Bush loyalists were upset because Rogers seemed more committed to Sununu than to the president...
...Two people who will not be pleased by Opening Arguments, a book by a former lawyer in the Iran-contra special prosecution office, are Elliott Abrams and Robert “Bud” McFarlane...
...Kaufman, Who’s Who fans will recall, was the Bush campaigner who staged the Boston Harbor and Massachusetts police embarrassments to Michael Dukakis in 1988...
...The three top deputies in the legislative affairs office-Robert Portman, Boyd Hollingsworth, and Nick Calio-have moved on to better paying jobs, although some speculate that their departures were influenced less by money than by the fact that their prospects at the White House weren’t bright...
...Sig Rogich, the president’s assistant for public events, was unhappy over the news that Dorrance Smith, a Bush family friend and creator of ABC’s “This Week with David Brinkley,” would be joining the administration...
...Agencies and Commissions: Govcmor, Federal Reserve Board-Lawrence B. Lindsey...
...There are probably 312,000 or so cables that go out under my name...
...Robert Michel as head of the minority party...
...WHO’S WHO When asked about the State Department instructions that authorized Ambassador April Glaspie to give Saddam Hussein a wink as he prepared to invade Kuwait last July, James Baker made clear he wanted the buck to stop somewhere else: “What you want me to say is that instructions were sent specifically by me or on my specific orders...
...While congressional Democrats search for an issue to awaken their moribund party, Republicans have been fighting tooth and nail over who will replace Rep...
...But they were less than thrilled by the decision of Brent Scowcroft to replace her with Brookings moderate Ed Hewett...
...It certainly didn’t help that Rogers had irritated the president by bad-mouthing Rich Bond, a friend of Bush’s, when Bond was up for chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...Meanwhile, the White House continues to lose top aides to the greener pastures of the private sector...
...Ronald Kaufman has succeeded Ed Rogers as Sununu’s chief political aide...
...Other would-be leaders who believe Michel may retire in 1992 include Reps...
...If, as Glaspie now seems to maintain, such instructions were never sent, observers wonder why Baker felt he had to deny responsibility for them...
...Jerry Lewis, Duncan Hunter, and Henry Hyde...
Vol. 23 • April 1991 • No. 4
