WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO Who’s Who, eager to join in the Washington-MonthlyGoes-to-Hollywood spirit of this issue, brings you this report from David Lauter of the Los Angeles Times on how the White House...
...Those who do not understand the ethical confusion manifested by Senator David Durenberger in recent years might ponder what his chief of staff, Rick Evans, recently said when asked if he saw any impropriety in asking lobbyists to contribute to a fund to pay the senator’s legal bills: “There’s no connection between their lobbying work and the money that they contribute...
...When a reporter asked him after the meeting if he would permit an independent Kurdish state, Ozal replied, “No, I have said no...
...The reason...
...Richard Gephardt agree that they went too far and intend to relax the law...
...According to The Jackson (Tennessee) Sun, Lamar Alexander, the new education secretary, “wants to send his children to an expensive private school in Washington...
...The latest is Woodward’s claim that his sources for his new book, The Commanders, would talk to him only on condition that no material would appear in print until the book came out...
...The realization that the new statute bars all top aides not only from lobbying their former bosses for a full year after resigning, but also from representing their interests...
...servicemen for doing exactly what the Pentagon said they should do when he told reporters that some troops were failing to carry out orders to accept Iraqi soldiers surrendering at the Kuwaiti border...
...This, of course, tends to irritate the Grahams, but since Woodward is such a star, they are reluctant to crack down on him...
...And Anthony Hopkins, fresh from his role as a psychotic killer in Silence of the Lambs, would seem unbeatable as Bush’s silky smooth, ruthlessly cold and efficient secretary of state, James A. Baker 111...
...According to these insiders, who point to Tiananmen Square, Bush will overlook almost anything for a loyal ally...
...And those who do not understand how the Senate’s millionaires are different from the rest of us might consider this remark by the wealthy John Seymour, recently appointed to fill the unexpired term of Pete Wilson: “Government has got to do to itself what you and I have to do as citizens...
...Carol Burnett has been widely touted for the State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler...
...Members of Congress, who often put their top staff members in campaign jobs, also would be forced to abide by the one-year rule...
...WHO'S WHO Who’s Who, eager to join in the Washington-MonthlyGoes-to-Hollywood spirit of this issue, brings you this report from David Lauter of the Los Angeles Times on how the White House press corps would cast Bush: The Movie...
...forces were not supposed to accept them...
...One potential violator would be RNC Chairman Clayton Yeutter, who stepped down as agriculture secretary last winter...
...Mlaybe you’ve got to sell your boat to keep the family going...
...Urbane Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams managed to blame U.S...
...The selections: “Danny DeVito would be a natural as Bush’s short, pudgy, and quarrelsome chief of staff, John H. Sununu...
...Interior: Assistant Secretary for Policy Management and Budget-John E. Schrote...
...Treasury: Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Public Liaison-Desiree Tucker-Sorini, Assistant Secretary of Legislative AffairsMary C. Sophos...
...In-Defense: Undersecretary for Acquisition-Donald Jay Yockey...
...Out-Agriculture: Deputy Secretary-Jack C. Parnell...
...Ricky Schroeder would be adorable as ever-boyish Vice President Dan Quayle...
...In an informal survey Who’s Who made of other authors, no one could recall any source ever having made such a condition...
...Secretary of State Baker, unwilling to be outdone by the other guy’s material, ordered spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler to phone Strauss for a facsimile of the jokes the fellow Texan intended to deliver at the annual Gridiron Dinner...
...What the parties seem to have settled on is finding fig leaves to cover up Woodward’s transgressions...
...Bob Strauss, the self-styled Republicrat, used the Los Angeles police brutality case as his source of inspiration in a prepared speech to the Gridiron Club-in a joke that, at the last minute, he excised: “I come from a town in Texas that’s so small, you get pulled over and only get beat up by one cop...
...In fact, several days after field commanders issued the order to accept Iraqi POWs, the Pentagon was insisting that US...
...White House: Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs-Nicholas E. Calio...
...You have so much money, and you have to make hard decisions...
...Now, George Bush’s counsel, C. Boyden Gray, Senator George Mitchell, and Rep...
...Education: Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education-Leonard L. Haynes HI, Assistant Secretary for Education, Research, and ImprovementChristopher T. Cross, Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs-Nancy Mohr Kennedy...
...In 1989, following the Reagan administration conflicts of interest involving aides Lyn Nofziger and Mike Deaver, congressional Democrats and the White House leaped at the chance to tighten ethics rules governing former federal officials...
...Although he is a longtime Post employee, Woodward persists in writing books that contain news he withheld from the paper...
...Agencies and Commissions: Administrator, Small Business Administration-Patricia F. Saiki...
...Insiders say the explanation to Washington’s most puzzling mystery-why George Bush deserted the Kurds and other Iraqi dissidents after urging them to rebel and threatening on March 19 to shoot down Iraqi helicopters that fued on them-is that at meetings at Camp David March 21 and 22, Turgut Ozal, the president of Turkey, told Bush that the possibility of a Kurdistan was too much for him to swallow...
...Education: Deputy Secretary-David T. Kearns...
...Insiders have long been entertained by the games Bob Woodward plays with The Washington Post...
Vol. 23 • May 1991 • No. 5
