WHO'S WHO
Threadgill, Susan
WHO'S WHO A good many papers quoted George Bush’s “So don’t feel sorry for-don’t cry for me Argentina” line from the New Hampshire campaign trail. But his preceding paragraph, say those who...
...Ed Rollins did by always concluding his remarks with “Sherrie is going to kill me,” which, translated, meant, “Mr...
...Can Patrick Buchanan’s America First campaign survive the revelation that he drives a Mercedes...
...President, you can get mad at me but don’t take it out on my wife...
...And right now, we do panic...
...And we are blessed...
...I hope so...
...In December 1990 Who’s Who told you that it was Margaret Thatcher who goaded George Bush into his warlike stance in Iraq even though, just before he departed for that early August meeting with her in Aspen, he told reporters, “We’re not discussing intervention...
...Few here think that Robert Mosbacher will survive as chairman of Bush’s campaign...
...Kerr signed his own death warrant by telling Congress that in August 1986, when Gates claimed he was innocent of any knowledge of Iran-contra, Kerr had informed his boss that the White House might have used profits from arms sales to Iran to finance the rebels in Nicaragua...
...AID footed the bill for two first-class round trips to Roskens’ home state of Nebraska, two others to one daughter’s home town, Minneapolis, and still another to visit a second daughter in Topeka...
...Skinner calls himself “a process person,” and he is described by former associates at the Department of Transportation as a “facilitator...
...When the government wouldn’t pay for other trips, Roskens still managed to avoid depleting his own bank account by getting $7,883 from different organizations, as an AID inspector general’s report put it, “in compensation of his and his wife’s travel expenses...
...You’re on to something here...
...Chaotic” was the word most often used by insiders to describe the White House during Sam Skinner’s early months as chief of staff...
...The two that worked were: 1) that it would be bad public relations to cancel the program...
...Mosbacher’s reputation was not enhanced by a story in the business section of The New York Times describing the Commerce department as having been “weakened” by his “management...
...and 2) that if the money were not used for the space station, it would be used for social programs...
...Administration insiders, who have never regarded him as a heavy hitter anyway, blame him for turning the thrust of Bush’s trip to the Far East into a search for American jobs that was clearly not a success...
...If you wonder why Richard J. Kerr recently resigned as deputy director of the CIA, you only have to recall his testimony last fall on the nomination of Robert Gates to be the agency director...
...But Skinner does have a social skill that is treasured by politicians...
...Where was he when I needed him...
...WHO'S WHO A good many papers quoted George Bush’s “So don’t feel sorry for-don’t cry for me Argentina” line from the New Hampshire campaign trail...
...He was also considered to be gifted at protecting himself in difficult situations...
...I’m not contemplating such action...
...And yet, at the end of the conversation, he can repeat almost verbatim what you’ve said...
...As one colleague observed, “When it was his ass or yours, you could be sure it would be yours...
...Ronald Roskens, the administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID), has displayed unusual skill at an old Washington game: getting the government to pay for a trip to visit the family...
...You can’t be...
...But I said to him this...
...W. Henson Moore is the new deputy chief of staff at the White House, replacing Andrew Card...
...Gerard E Scannell did not, it is rumored, leave his job as head of OSHA voluntarily, but was given more than a nudge toward the door by Lynn Martin, the secretary of labor, who felt that Scannell’s zeal for promoting worker health and safety was unseemly in a good Republican administration...
...He also accepted a $3,000 honorarium from a Nebraska college that he later returned after it was disclosed that the college was a subcontractor on a large AID contract...
...We do politics...
...Veteran Washington observers are talking about the similarity between the comments by Bill Clinton on the Gennifer Flowers tapes and those made by Richard Nixon during Watergate, from jibes about political opponents Bob Kerrey and Mario Cuomo to such stonewalling advice as “I just think that if everybody’s on record denying it you’ve got no problem,” “but if everybody kind of hangs tough, there’s just not going to be anything,” and “if they ever ask if you talked to me about it, you can say no...
...While Roskens has been traveling, CNN reports, his agency has been the scene of widespread corruption and incompetence...
...Card, who is now secretary of transportation, earned a reputation for competence during his White House tenure...
...Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff...
...You cannot be president of the United States if you don’t have faith...
...But his preceding paragraph, say those who heard it, offers even more persuasive evidence that his Halcion dosage should be reduced: “Somebody said to me, ‘You know, we prayed for you over there.’ That was not because I threw up on the prime minister of Japan either...
...She loves you...
...An example of the government business transacted during these journeys is the address Roskens delivered to the Topeka Optimists Club...
...But-but 1-1 said, ‘Let me tell you something.’ And I say this-I don’t know whether any ministers from the Episcopal church are here...
...How do you cover yourself, or at least protect your family from retaliation, when you repeatedly criticize the president and leader of your party...
...His probing lips left me gushing with desire...
...One told The Washington Post’s Ann Devroy: “We don’t do touchy-feelie retreats and psychological profiles of each other...
...Among their statements about the young men they had dated: “Ooh, baby, his pouty lip is just built for suckin...
...I painted his flesh with the gloss from my lips...
...Skinner did succeed in exiling Sig Rogich, an imagemaker who set the scenes for Bush’s media events, to Iceland, where he will be our new ambassador...
...When he’s talking to you,” says one of his friends, “he’s looking over your shoulder, he’s looking to your left, he’s looking to your right...
...He sees improving “communication” as his main objective...
...Last month, as a result, Sherrie Rollins was named assistant to the president for public liaison and intergovernmental affairs...
...Susan Threadgill...
...Our report is confirmed by a leading Canadian political scientist, Jean Edward Smith, in his new book, George Bush’s War, which will be published this month...
...His principal consultant in reorganizing the White House is Eugene Croisant, the vice president for human resources of RJR Nabisco, who likes psychological profiles and “teamwork retreats...
...Rep...
...Skinner’s first big mission as chief of staff was to replace David Demarest, the chief of communications, with Jim Lake, but Lake turned him down...
...When Dan Quayle’s aides William Kristol and Carnes Lord recommended that the vice president oppose continued funding of the space station, arguing that the cost was too high and that it would produce no “concrete accomplishment in space,” Richard Darman, who supported the station, desperately cast about for arguments that would keep Quayle on board...
...Phil Crane’s three daughters recently appeared on “Studs,” a late-night show on Fox Television...
...Bob Squier, the Democratic campaign consultant, says: “If Bill Clinton has to answer the Gennifer question, then I think George Bush has to answer the Jennifer question...
...All this has White House staffers muttering about rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic...
Vol. 24 • March 1992 • No. 3
