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WHO'S WHO The hottest rumor in local press circles is that Sy Hersh is working on a book that will show that Bob Woodward was either a CIA agent or had very close ties to the agency. . ....
...Watergate aficionados will be interested to hear that Spencer Oliver, the Democratic National Committee official whose phone was tapped as part of the infamous Watergate office bugging scheme (the tapping, by the way, showed that calls were made from Oliver’s phone to a call-girl service) is now the chief counsel for the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...WHO'S WHO The hottest rumor in local press circles is that Sy Hersh is working on a book that will show that Bob Woodward was either a CIA agent or had very close ties to the agency...
...Skinner has one redeeming qualification as chief of staff that may lead to his survival...
...Another cause for Republican campaign optimism is the appointment of Mike Farren, the undersecretary of commerce for trade policy, to the BusWQuayle campaign staff...
...Farren, the insiders know, is the man who really ran the 1988-89 transition when Robert Teeter and Craig Fuller were sulking because John Sununu had kept them from getting the jobs they wanted for themselves...
...It has found a memo written by a BCCI lobbyist that it calls “almost identical” to a speech Hatch subsequently delivered on the Senate floor defending the Justice Department’s inept handling of the BCCI investigatilm...
...Of the two, Moore is the one insiders are confident will go soon...
...Dan Quaple himself...
...His column earned him $102,000, but it was speeches ($237,000) and television fees ($438,000) that should have him trading in his Mercedes for a Rolls...
...Speaking of the White House., although Marlin Fitzwater was guilty of attacking the Great Society for causing the Los Angeles riots, it was Fitzwater and Robert Teeter who led the: behind-the-scenes struggle to make George Bush’s speech about the riots more understanding of black frustration and not simply a law-and-order tirade...
...His bluster, we are told, comes from being “scared to death,” a state he is said to share with Skinner, whose main preoccupation seems to be keeping his fingerprints off any White House action that might get him into trouble...
...The reason is that he’s James Baker’s man, and Baker wants to have a strong voice in the campaign without giving up his post as secretary of state...
...Insiders say that the rising power in the Bush campaign is Jim Cicconi, a lawyer with Akin, Gump...
...So he had the bricks reversed one by one...
...Speaking of Woodward, Lamar Alexander was one of the hits of this year’s Gridiron dinner with his number about the recent series Woodward and David Broder wrote about Dan Quayle: Best piece on Dan Best piece that ever ran Next day they’ll say Nixon’s all right Praise the Lord, they’ve seen the light...
...While cynics here have been saying that Senator Orrin Hatch’s questioning of Anita Hill, as well as that of Alan Simpson and Arlen Specter, was scripted by the Bush White House, evidence to support the charge has yet to be uncovered...
...We didn’t, but that’s what Richard Ben Cramer reports in his forthcoming What It Takes...
...A White House source tells us we were wrong to call Sam Skinner’s deputy, W. Henson Moore, arrogant...
...And speaking of the press, did you know that Pat Buchanan made more than $800,000 last year...
...The hard-liners consisted of William Kristol, the vice president’s chief of staff and son of the neoconservative godfather Irving Kristol...
...and in an unusual alliance, Sam Skinner and Dick Darman...
...White paint that had been applied over the years could not be removed to give the bricks the red color they had when Ross was a lad...
...He is a good listener, which means that all points of view can be confident of being heard at the White House...
...On Ross Perot as fruitcake: Have you heard the one about when Perot wanted bus childhood home restored to its original appearance...
...Susan Threadgill...
...Just think, if Carter had said yes and Bush had turned out to be as loyal to him as he was to Ronald Reagan, Bush’s career would have gone down the tubes with Carter’s in 1980...
...It appears, however, that Roll Call hais a smoking gun in another case in which Hatch may have had the services of a ghostwriter...
...Did you know that George Bush tried to persuade Jimmy Carter to retain him as director of the CIA when Carter succeeded Gerald Ford...
...Curiously, the hard-line version of Bush’s speech was written by David Diemarest, usually a moderate, while the more understanding draft was penned by Tony Snow, the conservative former editor of The Washington Ernes editorial page...
Vol. 24 • June 1992 • No. 6
