WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO Some of those closest to Bill Clinton are worried about the near total absence of eloquence in his public addresses. Even such all-important and...
...Guess what it is...
...Jordan, by the way, is said to have one notable personal characteristic in common with the president-elect...
...mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, whose administration got off to a faltering start from which it has never recovered...
...Other campaign insiders are mystified as to what impressed Bill Clinton about Vernon Jordan's track record as a leader of transitions...
...I'll tell you I have friends on the Clinton campaign, close associates...
...An important indication of whether Bill Clinton is ready for the job he is about to take will be seen in who he names to succeed Richard Darman at the OMB...
...Susan Threadgill...
...WHO'S WHO Some of those closest to Bill Clinton are worried about the near total absence of eloquence in his public addresses...
...Viewers were left shaking their heads after the November 7 edition of "Inside Washington...
...While BM Clinton says domestic economic recovery will be the primary target of his administration, the Times has assigned its foreign affairs star, Thomas Friedman, to cover the White House...
...Speaking of the press, the winner of the 1992 Clinton Campaign Sycophant Award—despite some stiff competition— is The New Republic's Sydney Blumenthal...
...Had Charles Krauthammer really said that he thought Arlen Specter had "acted correctly" in the Anita Hill hearings...
...Another Treasury official, Peter K. Nunez, who, as the department's assistant secretary for enforcement, is supposed to be its top cop, is said to possess a similar weakness...
...If there is one key job in the executive branch other than president, this is it...
...Does Krauthammer believe that an unsubstantiated charge of perjury is correct behavior...
...Maybe the president-elect should ask Wofford to help out with the inaugural address...
...All over Washington, lobbyists are busy making calls similar to those made by David Steiner, president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, to a contributor: "We have a dozen people in [Bill Clinton's] headquarters, and they're all going to get jobs...
...have had the courage to take on Carl Icahn in order to keep him from wriggling out of liability for the pensions of TWA employees...
...They are Director James Lockhart and his chief negotiator, Diane Burkley...
...About the only exception during the campaign was his September 11 speech at Notre Dame, which Senator Harris Wofford is said to have had a hand in drafting...
...Two officials of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp...
...A man like Clark Clifford in his prime would never have been so obvious, yet he would have gotten the same message across...
...When Donald Regan was secretary of the treasury and later White House chief of staff under Ronald Reagan, he was notorious for insisting upon and enjoying his own Secret Service detail, particularly for the Hail-to-theChief bustle it created as he made his entrances...
...Unfortunately for Steiner, The Washington Times obtained a tape of the conversation and he had to resign...
...But he was only different from the other fellows around town in that his claim was too bald...
...What does The New York Times know that the rest of America doesn't...
...Craig Fuller is being blamed for the disastrous Republican convention in Houston last summer...
...And, most important of all, he wouldn't have gotten caught...
...Even such all-important and could-have-been-carefully-prepared speeches are lacking, such as the acceptance speech at the convention and the victory speech on election night...
...Jimmy Carter first revealed his ignorance of what he was getting into when he selected Bert Lance to fill it...
...For example, Jack Anderson and Michael Binstein have found that on three separate trips to Chicago, Nunez was escorted by several Customs agents to various events, including one to a Blackhawks game and two others to watch the White Sox...
...His previous such assignment was directing the transition of D.C...
...Many here hope that among all the bright young George Stephanopoulos-types that will be populating the White House staff, BM Clinton chooses at least one seasoned and principled anchor of wisdom such as Bruce Babbitt...
Vol. 24 • December 1992 • No. 12
