WHO'S WHO
WHO'S WHO Bill Clinton’s 55-minute acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention continues to worry his advisers. What concerns them, they confide, is his inability to decide what is...
...Kis,singer would tell his staff that he was the one man who kcpt “that drunken lunatic” from doing things that would blow up the world...
...If Bush is serious about finding the leaker, the most likely suspects are David McIntosh, the executive director of Dan Quayle’s Council on Competitiveness, and White House aide Theresa Gorman, who is said to have convinced Clayton Yeutter to persuade Bush not to sign the Rio treaty...
...Another reporter notes that at town meetings Clinton “often takes questions for 40 or 50 minutes, and he generally answers each one with a mini-speech of enough length that his questioners generally get tired and sit down well before the end of his answers to their queries...
...Among the likely members of a Clinton administration are Tim Wirth as head of EPA, Marian Wright Edelman as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Warren Christopher as secretary of state...
...Susan Threadgill...
...We got a tip that Nixon had asked [John] Mitchell [the Nixon attorney general and campaign head who signed off on the burglary] to get an investigator to develop all the dirt that the Democrats could have picked sp on his brother...
...A comic result was that a memo was almost certain to have several addressees because the writer had to be sure it would reach all the people who might actually have the authority to handle the issue...
...WHO'S WHO Bill Clinton’s 55-minute acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention continues to worry his advisers...
...Larry O’Brien [chair of the DNC] had also been a consultant to Hughes and had been privy to the information...
...According to Roll Call’s Timothy Burger, Dan Quayle, who has been attacking ovmstaffing on Capitol Hill, has had two teenage sons work there, one as a mail carrier at the Senate Post Office and the other as a page, at salaries of approximately $1,000 a month...
...Some insiders blame Robert Teeter as much as Sam Skinner for the pre-convention chaos within the Bush campaign...
...According to a White House informant, they suspect the vice president’s staff has been pursuing its own agenda without regard to the president’s interests...
...One of the enduring mysteries of the Watergate burglary is why it was committed...
...What concerns them, they confide, is his inability to decide what is truly important...
...As for the turmoil at the White House, the blame seemed to lie with Skinner alone...
...A 90-minute session with reporters on his campaign plane late in July only heightened this concern...
...According to Sam Dash, the chief counsel of Sam Ervin’s Watergate committee, who recently discussed the subject with The Washington Lawyer: “We had some proof that [Richard] Nixon was always afraid that he might be exposed and embarrassed by the activities of his brother, who was associated at times with Mafia people and with Howard Hughes...
...Filed would be all right...
...Another of Nixon’s problems is explained in Walter Isaacson’s absorbing new biogra.phy of Henry Kissinger...
...As for George Bush’s advisers, their main concern remains the president’s bizarre answers to questions, responses which have kept alive speculation that he suffers from a mental impairment caused by either a slight stroke or medication...
...One example of Bush’s problem is when he was asked about the leaks of EPA head William Reilly’s memorandum urging a more cooperative position at the Rio environmental summit: “I’d like to find the leaker and I’d like to see the leaker filed-fired...
...The main reason Nixon was so concerned was that during California’s 1962 gubernatorial election, which he lost to Pat Brown, information about .his brother’s relationship with Hughes had been used by the Democrats to embarrassing effect...
...One White House source told Who’s Who that he was amazed that Bush had forgotten how much he was helped in the 1988 campaign by the pro-environment stand he took at Boston Harbor...
...Lee Hamilton will also be considered for secretary of state, but the betting is that Clinton would rather keep an ally in the chairmanship of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...They wonder why Teeter, who they say was largely responsible for Dick Thornburgh’s loss in Pennsylvania’s 1991 Senate race, was entrusted with so much power over Bush’s fortunes in 1992...
...The person who is said to have been behind the veto was thl- White House counsel, C. Boyden Gray...
...Michael Alexander told The New Republic that “Bush’s brain is not wired properly” but that this “brain problem” “doesn’t affect the clarity of his thought-probably...
...No, but the reason is, it’s very difficult to conduct government if somebody, in his or her infinite wisdom, can shape the wisdom by leaking documents...
...The same source expressed regret that Bush had vetoed the campaign finance bill, missing the chance to ally himself with reformers who are trying to level the playing field for congressional races...
...Several reporters got so bored that they drifted away or dozed off...
...Nixon was fond of martinis, and, according to one of his top aides, John Ehrlichman, “it didn’t take a whole lot of gin to get him sloshed...
...Speaking of Capitol Hill, Jack RUES, who resigned as sergeant at arms after presiding over the House Bank scandal, has been rehired as a par:!-time aide to Rep...
...Bush loyalists don’t find it very mysterious...
...Nixon,” says Dash,, “was womed about this sort of thing happening again...
...What did the burglars-r their bosses-hope to find at the Democratic National Committee headquarters...
...Mervyn Dymally...
...You may wonder why one of Quayle’s staffers would leak information embarrassing to George Bush...
...The disorganization was so bad that staffers often were unsure who had the power to decide a wide range of matters...
Vol. 24 • September 1992 • No. 9
