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WHO'S WHO A well-informed observer of Bill Clinton's campaign predicts that George Stephanopoulos will emerge as a key player in the Clinton White House because, more than anyone else on the...
...Still, tape or no tape, there's a persuasive body of evidence of Bush's complicity, including the records of his then-Chief of Staff Craig Fuller and of the then-secretaries of state and defense, George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger...
...Hersey's PT 109 story was later reprinted in Reader's Digest...
...Recently, Dan Quayle's chief of staff, William Kristol, was overheard calling a subordinate a "jerk" for telephoning him at home in the evening...
...Those seeking an explanation of Alan Simpson's behavior during the Anita Hill hearings may have found the smoking gun...
...The job that Clinton's aides arranged for Gennifer Flowers was open, according to the conservative magazine Destiny, because a black woman named Charlotte Perry had been denied a promotion...
...The man who supplied the clinching evidence that George Bush did know about the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran in July 1986 is Howard R. Teicher, who at that time was a Mideast expert on the staff of the National Security Council...
...Still, we're not entirely convinced there's not a smoking tape tucked away somewhere...
...Alexander Haig's new book, Inner Circles, contains evidence that will bolster the following suspicions: that Fidel Castro was behind the assassination of John Kennedy, that the North Vietnamese did not attack the destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy—in other words, that there was no justification for the Tonkin Gulf Resolution —and that Lyndon Johnson did want Richard Nixon to defeat Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 election...
...Thus defeat in romance led to victory at the polls...
...For example, when Cheney lost his fourth deferment as a married but childless man in 1965 he regained it by becoming a father nine months and two days after the deferment was taken away...
...Lost on the cutting room floor last month was a paragraph explaining the significance of the mamage of writer John Hersey to Frances Ann Cannon, a young woman John Kennedy had wanted to marry...
...Who's Who readers got this news in our May 1990 issue...
...A recent survey by the Architect of the Capitol has found "particularly high levels of lead" in the two water fountains located closest to Simpson's office in the Dirksen . In the October 7, 1992, Washington Post, Bob Woodward made a convincing case that Nicholas Brady has not been such a hot secretary of treasury...
...WHO'S WHO A well-informed observer of Bill Clinton's campaign predicts that George Stephanopoulos will emerge as a key player in the Clinton White House because, more than anyone else on the campaign staff, he is capable of bridging the gap between the policy works and the political operatives...
...Word is that she would rather remain at the helm of the Children's Defense Fund than deal with the headaches of running a large bureaucracy...
...During the 1960 campaign, the Kennedy forces dusted off the Digest article and distributed millions of copies to voters—a move that was said to have boosted Kennedy's fortunes significantly in states like West Virginia, where voters particularly prized military valor...
...Susan Threadgill...
...The "Nightline" story confirms a rumor first published by Who's Who last December that Nir had recorded the incriminating conversation—only ABC says he did it in a memorandum, not on tape, as we had heard...
...Cannon turned him down, but later made up for it in spades...
...Princess Diana is not the only prominent person to be embarrassed by cellular telephone eavesdroppers...
...According to Roll Call, Quayle's payroll for his Senate staff is 33 percent greater than what George Bush had four years ago and 58 percent larger than Walter Mondale's in 1980...
...Teicher says that he personally briefed Bush about the deal...
...If you want a clue as to how the Washington power elite thinks the election is going, look at Hill and Knowlton, the big PR/lobbying firm Susan Trento described in these pages in September...
...We hear that Marian Wright :Edelman will not accept the Health and Human Services secretaryship that practically everyone is expecting Bill Clinton to offer her...
...For instance, James Baker actually apologized to Bush administration colleagues for having recommended Brady's appointment...
...For his part, Richard Darman called Brady a "dolt...
...Sometimes the editing of this column is a tad too severe...
...Hill and Knowlton has chosen a liberal Democrat and Clinton adviser, Howard Paster, to replace its prominent Republican leader, Robert Gray...
...While Dan Quayle often complains about excessive government spending, economizing doesn't always begin at home...
...If Nir taped his chats with the lowly 011ie, wouldn't you think he'd switch on the tape recorder when he had the vice president of the United States in a compromising position...
...You probably know that Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney avoided the Vietnam draft, but you may not be aware of the details—recently supplied by Lawrence J. Korb in Army limes—of his five deferments...
...For it was through Cannon that Hersey met JFK, learned of the latter's heroics in the South Pacific, and wrote a dramatic account of them in The New Yorker...
...But we have to admit that Woodward got some sweet details...
...Other evidence that Bush knew more than he admits comes from ABC News "Nightline," which revealed last month that Amiram Nir, the Israeli counterterrorism expert who worked closely with Oliver North in arranging the deal, had also discussed it with Bush in July 1986...
Vol. 24 • November 1992 • No. 11
