Who's Who 35 Tidbits and Outrages
Who's While David Gergen's skill in turning around Bill Clinton's relationship with the press last June is greatly admired by his colleagues at the White House, his ego is not. One of Gergen's...
...This, however, does not put him at the top of the paid pundit plutocracy...
...Speaking of administration nicknames, we hear that backbiters around Foggy Bottom have taken to calling U.N...
...And she is a long way from shore...
...Hazel O'Leary, the secretary of Energy, went to Russia the day after Boris Yeltsin's tanks attacked the Russian parliament...
...Susan Threadgill...
...high school students were awarded a trip to the heavyweight championship fight in Las Vegas...
...Last month, four outstanding D.C...
...Nevertheless, White House officials are said to doubt that federal prosecutors have enough evidence to indict Brown...
...Sidney Williams, the husband of Maxine Waters, the congresswoman from California, has been nominated to be Who ambassador to the Bahamas...
...The result is that she has failed to articulate a position on three key pieces of legislation soon up for reauthorization: the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act____ Meanwhile, Bill Clinton continues to give conflicting signals to environmentalists...
...Observers wonder how the couple is going to manage the commute between Los Angeles, Washington, and Nassau____' Philip Lader, currently the deputy for management at OMB who is scheduled to replace Bruce Lindsey as White House Personnel Director, is the fellow who originally organized Hilton Head's Renaissance Weekends, now famous for bringing together people like Bill Clinton and David Gergen____ Insiders wonder whether Clifton Wharton, the recently deposed Number 2 at State, was a victim of the Token Black Syndrome...
...And it has recently been revealed that Gergen, in the year and a half before he joined the White House staff, made about $700,000 from speaking engagements...
...And because Brown has no interest in leaving the cabinet on his own, he's likely to be around until the end of the term...
...One of Gergen's nicknames, by the way, is "The Cat in the Hat," based on his resemblance to one of Dr...
...It's nice to be on the cutting edge of history...
...In other words, did the Clinton administration choose Wharton on the basis of his color and his impressive resume and then judge him on his performance at a particular job for which he may not have been suited in the first place...
...Does this mark the triumph of spin over substance...
...Seuss's characters...
...He has axed F. Dale Robertson, the Forest Service chief, who was said to be too friendly to the timber industry...
...One of Brown's three meetings with Nguyen Van Hao, the president of the Vietnamese Development Corporation, is said to have taken place at Madsen's residence—meetings allegedly to discuss paying Brown $700,000 to help lift trade sanctions against Vietnam...
...At least four cabinet members continue to have private dining rooms despite Bill Clinton's order that his administration cut perks...
...Was she carrying urgent messages from Bill Clinton...
...Ashton, according to Jerry Seper of The Washington Times (to whom I am indebted for his item), reportedly introduced Brown to Hao...
...One environmentalist commented: "It's like Kmart hiring a bunch of shoplifters to guard their stores...
...According to a State Department cable that was leaked to the columnist John McCaslin: "Perhaps the most exciting initiative among many discussed was DOE's proposal to set up a chain of gasoline service stations and convenience stores in one or more areas...
...Not exactly...
...Our own environmental expert, Gregg Easter-brook, says she is intelligent and competent but hasn't thought through the issues...
...Who else but Marion Barry...
...The chaperone...
...Ambassador Madeline Albright "Madeline Half-bright...
...Madsen also happens to be the sister-in-law of Marc Ashton, a former adviser to Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, the deposed Haitian dictator...
...They include, according to Gannett News Service, Attorney General Janet Reno with one steward, Secretary of Transportation Frederico Pena with three, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen with five, and Les As-pin, the secretary of Defense and perkmeister general, with 16...
...But he has appointed two former mining industry lawyers, Robert Uram and Kathrine L. Henry, to the top jobs in the Office of Surface Mining...
...By a wide margin, the longest list of names—in fact, it was more than twice as long as any other—was under Communications, headed by Mark D. Gearan...
...Pat Buchanan pulled in $900,000 the year before he ran for president...
...Because Clinton himself, after the Clifton Wharton firing, has no interest in jettisoning yet another black appointee____ Rolling Stone says Carol Browner, the A1 Gore aide who was placed in charge of the EPA, "is in over her head...
...The Washington Post recently published a list of White House salaries broken down by different offices, such as Presidential Personnel, National Security Council, National Economic Council, etc...
...Last December, Ron Brown was a co-purchaser of a house currently inhabited by Lillian Madsen, a Haitian who describes herself as "a very good friend" of Brown's...
...And the Communications list does not include such names as Lisa Caputo, who is Hillary Clinton's press secretary, or David Gergen and George Stephanopolous, who have devoted large hunks of their time to dealing with the media...
Vol. 25 • January 1993 • No. 12
