WHO'S WHO
Threadgill, Susan
WHO'S WHO The vultures are circling over the remains of Clark Clifford’s law firm. Yet while Clifford & Warnke may be disintegrating, its clients Phillips Petroleum and Eastman Kodak are the...
...Potter was the deputy general counsel of Bush’s 1988 campaign committee, a credential that doesn’t arouse universal approbation from the Democratic members of the Senate...
...Such is the case with the nomination of Trevor A. Potter to the Federal Elections Commission, which recently sailed through the Senate without debate...
...But his consistent number-one enemy since November 1988 has been Robert Teeter, who that month was frozen out of contention for a major White House post by Sununu...
...Like Julius Caesar, John Sununu found many knives slashing at him as his White House career drew to a close...
...Sometimes, as in the case of the International Trade Commission’s Carol Crawford (see “Tilting at Windmills”), we can trace the dealmaking behind a given politician’s rise or fall...
...Yet the facilitator of Potter’s smooth sail was Democrat Wendell Ford, chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, a position that considerably enhances one’s ability to facilitate...
...According to The Washington Post’s Michael Weisskopf, Hubbard got $786,233 in dividends from the company in 1990 alone...
...Prolabor Mary Cracraft is leaving the National Labor Relations Board because Bush refused to resubmit her nomination for another term after it was blocked by Senator Malcolm Wallop’s objection this summer...
...Other times we know enough to realize that the fix is in but can’t make out, in the vast amount of fog generated by veteran Washington operators, just who is fixing whom...
...Allan B. Hubbard, the chief administrator of the President’s Council on Competitiveness, which has a major role in determining which antipollution regulations are acceptable to the administration, just happens to be the half owner of a chemical company (which Who’s Who is sure never dumps nasty chemicals into any river...
...Another nomination that is blocked, for the time being, is that of Jerry R. Curry to head the Federal Aviation Administration...
...The embarrassment was inspired by the fact that Roger Ailes wasn’t in the group as we had expected...
...Thus, Clifford & W a d e lawyers who are deemed able to take such clients with them not only won’t have to join any breadlines but are being wooed by other firms...
...In May 1989, they proclaimed Sununu George Bush’s “most inspired choice for any senior post...
...The others, if you’re curious, were John Tower and Dan Quayle...
...Yet while Clifford & Warnke may be disintegrating, its clients Phillips Petroleum and Eastman Kodak are the kind other firms covet...
...Fuller, by the way, was another major Sununu enemy...
...This time the senator responsible is Howard Metzenbaum, who has been persuaded by Ralph Nader associates Joan Claybrook and Clarence Ditlow that Curry was soft on car safety while serving as administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
...The other is that Bush likes to play tennis with him...
...The previous month’s Who’s Who had said Sununu was one of “Bush’s three major mistakes...
...As the recession drags on, you may wonder why Bush continues to heed the advice of Michael Boskin, the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers...
...Two explanations are offered by White House insiders...
...WHO'S WHO The vultures are circling over the remains of Clark Clifford’s law firm...
...The reason it’s only slight is because Ailes was offered the job of campaign media director but turned it down for business and family reasons...
...A close second in the steadfastness of his opposition to Sununu was Ed Rollins, who recently remarked, “Sununu is living proof that you shouldn’t give children their I.Q...
...But Boskin wasn’t responsible for the credit card interest rate fiasco...
...Among the leading suitors is Howrey & Simon, whose managing partner is said to be pursuing about I O C& W lawyers...
...Did Ford make a deal with the White House...
...The editors of Time should peruse Who’s Who more closely...
...test results...
...The occasion for one more toot of our own horn, along with a slight blush of embarrassment, came in December when the White House named Malek, Teeter, and Robert Mosbacher to run the 1992 Bush campaign-just as we had predicted three months before...
...The chief of staff “has yet to gain the notoriety of the other two,” we noted, “but it will come...
...Susan Threadgill...
...One is that he explains economic issues in terms the president can understand...
...The advisers who recommended that Bush speak out on the subject were Craig Fuller, Ken Duberstein, and Fred Malek...
...Or did the nominee to the commission who breezed through along with Potter, Scott E. Thomas, have a relationship with Ford or his staff...
...Private Eye’s send-up of the Anita HillClarence Thomas hearings includes a character named Senator Joseph Kinnock...
...All this is what makes Washington an irresistibly tantalizing show...
...Or did one of his staff members...
Vol. 24 • January 1992 • No. 1
