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WHO'S WHO The 43 top executives of the U.S. Postal Service spend an average of $15,600 each year on travel. According to a report by the Scripps Howard News Service, $11,000 in Postal...
...Maybe Bob Woodward is right about Dan Quayle’s influence after all...
...This guy is just the deputy...
...But the most ingenious way we’ve seen to get on the inside is pro bono legal work...
...Charles Black, a senior adviser to the Bush campaign, has, according to The Washington Post, the longest corporate client list, including Aetna Life and Casualty, Bethlehem Steel, Commonwealth Edison, Johnson & Johnson, the Tobacco Institute, and Union Pacific...
...Byron Dorgan is the wife of Dorgan’s fellow North Dakotan, Senator Kent Conrad...
...They are not likely to refuse to return the firm’s phone calls on other matters...
...At least six seats are open on each of the two most powerful committees, Ways and Means and Appropriations...
...That’s what several leading local law firms are giving senators who have been charged with leaking documents...
...One choice item from Cramer reminds us how much George Bush’s politics have changed...
...Bush campaign officials Robert Teeter, Fred Malek, and Jim Lake, each of whom has a roster of powerful corporate clients, have regular morning meetings with top White House aides including Sam Skinner and his deputy, W. Henson Moore...
...O’Melveny and Myers, for example, represents Senator Patrick Leahy and four of his aides...
...The vice president appears to have been the key player in both the removal of Richard Truly as NASA administrator and the selection of Daniel Goldin as his successor...
...The traditional way for a lobbyist to gain access to Washington’s power people is working on a campaign...
...He stopped reading newspapers last July...
...Insiders say the real reason Paul Tsongas withdrew from the race-and decided not to reenter despite his surprisingly good showing in New York-is a distaste for hardball politics...
...Thus the Lucy Calautti working in the office of Rep...
...All those congressional retirements have created an unusual opportunity for the more ambitious congressmen who remain...
...Over and over he told those urging him to get back into the race that he dreaded “coming in and doing battle” again...
...How does Justice Clarence Thomas keep his intellect so finely honed...
...Susan Threadgill...
...Skinner’s deputy, Henson Moore, is said to be another Donald Regan because of his unbecoming sense of self-importance...
...Many people here who doubt that either Bill Clinton or George Bush has the courage to take on the powerful forces opposed to reform in the key areas of entitlements, education, and health are hoping that Ross Perot will run and at least put bold proposals on the table...
...By the way, readers who assumed that Heather Foley was the switch-hitting political spouse mentioned here last month were on the wrong track...
...Will Dick Darman get him or will he get Darman first, is the question that has fascinated White House watchers...
...The knock on Perot is his ego, which is enormous, even for a public figure...
...If you prefer elegance underfoot, try the new lifts on the House side, each of which has a marble floor personally approved by Speaker Tom Foley...
...If you have a thing about elegant elevators, hasten to Capitol Hill, where a recent renovation of an elevator in the Dirksen Senate Office Building included installation of granite walls and a mahogany and brass ceiling...
...Thomas is, however, a faithful peruser of a publication called Cowboy Weekly...
...Washington’s favored technique for avoiding outright nepotism while still placing relatives in nice jobs is to have a friend do the hiring...
...Sam Skinner continues to be in hot water...
...As a young congressman, he was so enthusiastic about carrying on his father’s fervent advocacy of worldwide birth control efforts that a fellow representative nicknamed him “Rubbers...
...At least Regan was the chief,” said one insider...
...WHO'S WHO The 43 top executives of the U.S...
...Hillary Clinton is a piker compared to the influence peddlers in George Bush’s administration...
...According to a report by the Scripps Howard News Service, $11,000 in Postal Service funds were spent to send two officials to Paris to attend the dedication of a postage stamp commemorating the French Revolution...
...The biggest spender was Thomas Leavey, who ran up a travel bill of $106,902 over three years (not to mention his tab of $16,189 for wining and dining in Washington...
...The two books scheduled to be published this spring that are being touted by the political literati are David McCullough’s Truman and Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes...
...Not by reading newspapers, reports Tony Mauro of Legal Times...
Vol. 24 • May 1992 • No. 5
