Who's Who
Who's When Bill Clinton was in Los Angeles during last month's Somalia crisis, he managed to find time for a late night meeting in his Beverly Hills Hilton suite with his brother Roger, who is...
...The fly in the ointment is that too many are running in states such as Minnesota, where five women may run to replace Dave Durenberg-er, and Ohio and Michigan, where three may compete for the seats of Howard Metzen-baum and Don Riegle...
...Weingarten, by the way, knows his way around public corruption cases, having spent 10 years at the Justice Department prosecuting public officials who, like Brown, were accused of wrongdoing...
...As many as 16 congressional committees may compete for jurisdiction over slices of the Clinton health plan...
...According to the Washington Times, which is no friend of the administration, both Webster Hubbell, the deputy attorney general, and William H. Kennedy II, associate counsel to the president, were involved, as members of Hillary Clinton's Little Rock law firm, in an Iowa nursing home deal that enriched their client, Beverly Enterprises, and impoverished the non-profit corporation to which the nursing home was sold...
...In the Senate, the principal contenders are Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Finance committee, which includes Hillary Clinton's most ardent advocate, Jay Rockefeller, but has only an 11 to nine Democratic majority, and Edward Kennedy's Labor and Human Resources, which has 10 Democrats and seven Republicans...
...Or maybe Thomas McLarty and Roy Neel decided they didn't want another chief of staff...
...Everyone here is wondering why Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown had his staff mislead reporters into thinking he had had no contact with Vietnamese intermediaries who were allegedly planning to pay him $700,000 to lift trade sanctions against their country, when Brown's attorney, Reid Wein-garten, later disclosed that there had been such meetings...
...The revolving door is still revolving...
...Don Riegle, who announced his retirement from the Senate this fall, is said by friends never to have recovered his zest for public life since his dealings with the S&L scandal-tainted Charles Keating were revealed____ Will 1994 be another year of the woman...
...But she may have a problem with the cover-up charges, including one for tampering with government records and another for tampering with physical evidence...
...She recently demonstrated her clout by helping persuade the adminstration to water down an executive order requiring the federal government to use recycled paper...
...From the executive branch, 98 senior government officials took lobbying jobs upon leaving the government after last year's election, according to the Associated Press, and another 65 went to work for law firms that lobby on Capitol Hill...
...Since becoming president in January, Clinton has visited California more often than he has visited Arkansas...
...In any event, something went so wrong that at least one report said Ickes and his pal Susan Thomases have been asked to surrender their White House passes, which were the only ones held by non-staffers____ One of the hot thirtysomething couples in the age of Clinton are Jody Greenstone, David Gergen's top assistant, and her husband, Billy Webster, who is Education Secretary Dick Riley's chief of staff...
...Alexis Herman and Roger Altman are said to be among the handful who do not hesitate to speak up to the boss...
...Perhaps David Gergen's success at getting the press off Clinton's back made Ickes seem less needed...
...Betsey Wright, Clinton's chief of staff in his gubernatorial days and later a major player in his presidential campaign, is now a lobbyist with Anne Wexler's firm...
...Sycophancy is now on a rising arc at the White House, where aides voice dissenting opinions less and less in Bill Clinton's presence, and when they do, they compete to find the most artful variations of "with all due respect, Mr...
...And from the legislative branch at least 22 became lobbyists, including such luminaries as Clinton's friend Beryl Anthony, prominent Republican Willis Gradison, and Robert Leonard, the former chief counsel to the House Ways and Means committee, all of whom are devoting themselves to protecting the interests of the health care industry...
...Former National Institutes of Health director Bernadine Healy is one of the possible candidates in Ohio...
...Wein-garten's shining moments at Justice include the conviction of former Congressman John Jenrette...
...There is still no "enforcer" in the White House, which makes people wonder what happened to Harold Ickes, who was first scheduled to join the staff in January only to have his appointment derailed by unpleasant rumors from New York and again in June when he was being taken around Capitol Hill by administration escorts who explained that he was going to bring order to the White House...
...Who's When Bill Clinton was in Los Angeles during last month's Somalia crisis, he managed to find time for a late night meeting in his Beverly Hills Hilton suite with his brother Roger, who is playing "Mayor Bubba" in the forthcoming film, "Pumpkinhead II: Bloodwings...
...As many as 33 women are considering running for the Senate and 105 could seek House seats, according to the NaWho tional Women's Political Caucus...
...Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is said to have little to fear from the charge that she used subordinates from her state treasurer's office for her campaign, which has been a traditional practice in the public life of the Lone Star state...
...President...
...Susan Threadgill...
Vol. 25 • January 1993 • No. 11
