WHO'S WHO
Threadgill, Susan
WHO'S WHO That haggard look on George Bush’s face in February had two explanations. One, of course, was Pat Buchanan. The other was that he was trying to kick the Halcion habit. . . . But...
...Susan Threadgill...
...This question is being posed to a number of prominent lobbying organizations by the overdrafts on the House bank...
...Bush and his associates are said to have been mightily impressed by Bob Squier’s point, reported here last month, that talk about Gennifer will lead to talk about Jennifer...
...The issue is whether the lobby will look worse embracing or abandoning the sinner...
...Now he says taking the money for himself is “an option...
...WHO'S WHO That haggard look on George Bush’s face in February had two explanations...
...He is to be replaced by Frank Wisner, who is now ambassador to the Philippines (and son of the legendary CIA official), whose previous career was devoted almost entirely to the Middle East and Africa and who has no experience in the Soviet Union...
...Why were all these fellows so interested in membership on the committee...
...What does a lobby do when one of its favorite members of Congress, a representative who has been steadfastly loyal to its cause, becomes embroiled in a major scandal...
...David Hess of Knight-Ridder and Pat Towell of Congressional Quarterly won the hotly contested election for membership in the Congressional Press Gallery’s Standing Committee of Correspondents, defeating reporters from such news organizations as USA Today, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and The New York Times...
...Observers here were amused when Ron Brown rushed to Hillary Clinton’s defense after Jerry Brown accused her of influence peddling...
...When Clinton was at Oxford, he refused to join his fellow Rhodes scholars in signing a petition against the war in Vietnam...
...Thomas Pickering, who is being sent to India as our ambassador, is generally considered to be doing a good job at the United Nations...
...There is some puzzlement about the personnel moves James Baker is making at the State Department...
...The word around town is that Bill Clinton may be home free on the Gennifer Flowers problem...
...Because this is a presidential election year, meaning that there will be Republican and Democratic national conventions, and the committee has a lot of say in handing out floor passes and assigning work spaces to the press...
...During his campaign for the governorship of Kentucky last year, Rep...
...Gossip is growing about the switch-hitting proclivities of a prominent political spouse...
...His reason: It might damage his political career...
...One similarity that might occur to reporters is that both women were “taken care of’ with government jobs...
...Larry J. Hopkins assured voters that he would not use for personal purposes the $658,000 left in his congressional campaign fund...
...One reason the Bush campaign got off to an uncertain start is that Robert Teeter had planned to focus it on the triumph of Desert Storm, and both he and Bush, according to White House insiders, had great difficulty facing the fact that the voters were much more concerned about the present recession than the past victory...
...Solarz has long been a champion of Israel as Oakar has been of the AFL-CIO...
...David Pryor is denying a report from the Memphis Commercial Appeal that he “may retire at the end of the year” because of a heart attack he suffered last April...
...Witness his recent reference to Norman Schwarzkopf as General Scowcroft...
...One answer from campaign insiders is that his consultants David Doak and Robert Shrurn were trying to recycle the Japan-bashing campaign they ran for Dick Gephardt in 1988...
...Hopkins is one of 10 congressmen who are still eligible to use the now-closed loophole permitting those leaving Congress to convert campaign funds to their own uses...
...Two examples are Mary Rose Oakar and Stephen Solarz, who are among the top 24 offenders...
...The betting here is that in these two cases, the lobbies will choose to sing along with Tammy Wynette...
...It is, by the way, the consensus among the political pundits that Jerry Brown’s attack was maladroit in the extreme...
...Another health rumor concerns Jamie Whitten, the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, who entered Walter Reed Army Medical Center on February 3 for “tests and routine medication checks...
...Politicians are asking how a candidate with the seemingly immense potential of Bob Kerrey failed so miserably...
...But there is some evidence that he still may be popping a pill now and then...
...If we find out it’s more than gossip and has some political relevance, we’ll get back to you...
...The one hazard remaining for Clinton is that Gennifer may sue him under the equal protection clause when she learns that Jennifer is making $112,000 compared to her measly $17,000...
...Undersecretary of State for Security Affairs Reginald Bartholomew, who will be sent to Brussels to serve as ambassador to NATO, is in the midst of delicate negotiations with the former Soviet republics over the disposal of nuclear weapons...
...That hockey-rink ad was one disastrous result...
...He was still in the hospital at the end of the month, prompting speculation that he may have a serious problem...
...His false charge that Bill Clinton was “funneling” money to his wife’s fim blew Brown’s chance to make a legitimate point...
...Because convention sites-especially ‘Madison Square Garden, where the Democrats will gather in July-are often short on elbow room, the allocations made by the committee play a significant role in determining access to the floor and the relative comfort of working conditions...
...The chairman and his partners have never been accused of excessive subtlety in letting potential clients know that their firm is not without connections among the powerful...
Vol. 24 • April 1992 • No. 4
