WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO In the early days of the Bush administration, White House sophisticates tended to make fun of C. Boyden Gray, dismissing him as a nice lightweight or, more harshly, as a fruitcake....
...White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater has employed Walton in his office...
...Ambassador to Belgium—Bruce Gelb...
...She will retain the title of ambassador that she held in Iraq...
...Labor Secretary Lynn Martin, a former Illinois congresswoman, knows too well that Senate confirmation of high-level administration nominees can exact a policy price from Senator Ted Kennedy, who heads the Labor Committee...
...Martinez forced the aide out...
...Executive Secretary for Cabinet Liaison—Michael P. Jackson...
...But now they're calling up friends and whispering, "Never tell anybody what I said about Boyden...
...The undersecretary of state is suspected of helping scuttle efforts by the Commerce Department last year to halt the sale of high-tech instruments to Iraq...
...Observers here are curious about the coincidence that island hotels never charged him more than the $97 the government reimburses for official travel, even though he occupied accommodations that ordinarily command as much as $525 per night...
...OW—White House: Member, Council of Economic Advisors—Richard L. Schmalensee...
...Labor: Assistant Secretary for Labor Management Standards—Robert Michael Guttman...
...And Rep...
...State: Voice of America, Director—Richard W. Carlson...
...Thomas in the Virgin Islands...
...The real scandal involving Comptroller of the Currency Robert Clarke will come not from his outside investments, insiders say, but from the fact that his office regulates banks more on the basis of papers furnished by the banks themselves than on on-site inspections by the OCC staff...
...Personnel Director—Chase Untermeyer...
...It is fortunate that George Bush did not experience a health problem the night of the White House Correspondents Dinner, because, a reliable source tells us, the president's physician, Burton Lee, was "obviously drunk" at the dinner and was pawing women in a manner embarrassing to those around him...
...WHO'S WHO In the early days of the Bush administration, White House sophisticates tended to make fun of C. Boyden Gray, dismissing him as a nice lightweight or, more harshly, as a fruitcake...
...This way, she may pay a price to the Democrats but at least has a chance for a discount...
...Labor: Deputy Secretary— Roderick A. DeArment...
...Justice: Attorney General—Richard Thornburgh...
...State: Ambassador to China—L...
...Perhaps Gates will seek to excuse himself with the line his predecessor as head of the CIA, William Webster, used when asked why he had been so incurious about Iran-contra, "I am not an investigative expert...
...became angered that Walton repeatedly skipped staff meetings to attend to his duties...
...Speaking of Gates and Poindexter, most people here are convinced that Gates is not going to be able to get away with denying knowledge of Iran-contra...
...Ambassador to the USSR—Robert Strauss...
...ID—Whire House: Member, Council of Economic Advisors— David F. Bradford...
...So Martin held off on sending up the names of her proposed deputies one at a time and prepared to request confirmation en masse...
...When the State Department can't figure out what to do with a senior foreign service officer—and doesn't want to risk an embarrassing congressional confirmation hearing— the post of final resort is diplomat-in-residence at a university...
...Conservative Republicans are angry that President Bush has campaigned for turncoat Buddy Roemer, governor of Louisiana, who may have switched from Democrat to Republican, but who also vetoed two anti-abortion bills...
...The reason is that George Bush selected Gray as his enforcer when he wanted to rebuke his two most powerful subordinates, James Baker on his Chemical Bank stock and John Sununu on his air travel...
...Brian W. Clymer, the head of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, recently visited Hawaii, which is seeking a grant from UMTA...
...On May 25 The Washington Post reported that Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon "left town yesterday for a week-long vacation on St...
...Former drug policy director William Bennett hired Reggie Walton to stump nationwide for the administration's crime bill...
...Voice of America, Director—Chase Untermeyer...
...Stapleton Roy...
...But Bennett's replacement, Bob Martine...
...The conservatives consider Bush's embrace of Roemer to be further evidence of his malleable views on abortion...
...Bob Kimmitt may not be out of the woods yet...
...This may help explain why April Glaspie will occupy that position at the San Diego campus of the University of California...
...Mutterings of "deja vu" and "uh-oh" are being heard around town from those who recall the scene of many of Marion Barry's more colorful adventures...
...Assuming the confirmation of Robert M. Gates as director of the CIA, the White House is planning to name Admiral Jonathan T. Howe to be deputy national security advisor...
...Both a memo from Poindexter to Oliver North and subsequent testimony by Poindexter indicate that Gates was at least told that the contras were being illegally supplied by the North network...
...Sam Gejdenson also believes Kimmitt, with the possible assist of boss James Baker, may have orchestrated the ouster of Commerce aide Dennis Kloske, who revealed the arms sales...
...Gejdenson hopes to unravel the mysteries using White House documents, which he has been promised...
...The last admiral to hold that post was John M. Poindexter...
Vol. 23 • July 1991 • No. 7
