Who'S Who
cans, the black population makes up an average of 5.7 percent. In Democratic districts that aren't majority-minority, the average hovers from 20 to 25 percent. Nationally, according to Election Data...
...But insiders say she is sure to get a good position soon because she knows too much to be left outside the tent...
...But we Ido want to make it clear to the new president that we intend to fire a shot across his bow whenever we see his jeye wandering...
...They used it to divide and segment and segregate...
...What jwas he doing there with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill...
...By the same token then, Republicans would not be selling out by being fair to blacks and hispanics (and whites, for that matter) caught in poverty or in discriminatory situations...
...Susan Threadgill March 1993/The Washington Monthly 33...
...Then, in 1992, Clinton got it right...
...There are a very substantial number of minority Americans who are worried about taxes and crime and education and would be receptive to our views on those things...
...Defending the propriety of this approach, Hugh Rodham told The Wall Street Journal, "We jobviously need to pay for it somehow...
...One reason is that, next to Susan Thomases, she was considered least likely to win the Ms...
...Harold M. Ickes Jr...
...Even out of political context, it's a good idea to end dependency on welfare, and there's nothing wrong with locking up bad guys...
...Ronan Street, "It costs a lot to keep up a place like this...
...I start from the premise that the Voting Rights Act is intended to empower voters, not elected officials...
...Will we strike each time a good-looking woman comes into Clinton's view...
...Ickes was supposed to be Clinton's disciplinarian, a job which has now gone unfilled...
...If the Republicans don't think this is trouble, they only have to look to the Democrats' history since 1968, when Democrats cut themselves off from segments of the white middle-class electorate, taking politically suicidal stands on things like welfare or, as in 1988, on the Massachusetts prison furlough system...
...That's a notion whose time never came in racial reapportionment...
...responsibility are wondering why the communica-i tions director needs these sorts of people around him...
...The item was not intended to convey that anything more had happened or that Tyson had sought to ,use her physical charm to attract the president's attention...
...But those are sensible stands anyway...
...I just think we're wrong on this...
...Such preventive gossip might have spared John Kennedy the perilous predicaments produced by his own wandering eye...
...The only Aspin-related article in recent memory that didn't come from him or his staff was the one about his having gotten a free junket on an Air Force plane for his girlfriend...
...Headlined "Defense Industry Voices Support for Aspin," it said top military industry executives believe Aspin "may be the only man who can save them...
...Look around you," Baird explained, sitting in the elegant living room of her home on New Haven'.s exclusive St...
...Among the "we're all just friends" atmosphere of the Renaissance Weekend at Hilton Head, South Carolina...
...The only member of the Clinton team who hit the ground with most of his subordinates in place was George Stephanopoulos...
...Racially gerrymandered districts amount to political ghettos, and even strategists and sponsors with the largest stake in the 1982 amendment are increasingly ambivalent about it...
...Maybe Zoe Baird was telling the truth when she said she couldn't gel citizens or legal immigrants to work for her...
...In fact, he has so many policy-oriented aides such as David Kusnet, Ricki Seidman, Robert Boorstin, and Michael Wald-man, that White House officials with direct policy...
...Republicans just assume the minority vote can't be gotten," says Bill Brock, the former RNC chairman who rebuilt the party after its 1976 defeat...
...I think a lot of the Republicans, just like the Democrats, wallowed in hypocrisy on the Voting Rights Act...
...But we hear that before hiring the Peru-: vians, she interviewed an American graduate student, who asked for more money than the Baird-Gewirtz family offered to pay...
...Nationally, according to Election Data Services, districts held by Republicans in 1990 were 6.84 percent black...
...Now, just as we are going to press, Clifford's lawyers, apparently having decided that the courts will agree with the cynics, are trying a new tactic: They say Clifford must undergo surgery the very day the New York trial is scheduled to commence...
...The political problem will only get worse: Minorities will make up 30 percent of the nation's population within 10 years...
...Indeed, from all we hear, she is one of the more (original intellects in his administration and deserves 'Clinton's attention strictly on the basis of merit...
...Veteran observers .were shocked that the Clintonites would repeat a mistake made in recent years only by the Reagan Iteam in 1981...
...Richard Holbrooke, a former assistant secretary of State under Jimmy Carter, campaigned hard to become a member of Warren Christopher's team at State—too hard, some say, for Christopher, who declined to give Holbrooke the top job he sought...
...n 32 The Washington Monthly/March 1993 : One reason those White House phones didn't get lanswered the week after the Inauguration was that ithe Clinton transition team had asked that all the :White House secretaries be fired...
...was slated to become deputy chief of staff at the While House until his appointment was derailed by reports that he may have lied to feder-l al prosecutors during an investigation of Mayor David Dinkins, and that he had represented the allegedly corrupt Local 100 of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union...
...Clark Clifford's lawyers have been arguing that he is too ill to be tried in New York but well enough to endure a trial in Washington...
...He acknowledged that welfare needed reform, and he was sufficiently tough on crime to dull that perennial wedge issue...
...Those who are or almost jare millionaires of cabinet status include Lloyd WHO'S WHO Bentsen, Warren Christopher, Hazel O'Leary, Madeleine Albright, Robert Reich, Richard Riley, Ron Brown, Jesse Brown, Henry Cisneros, Mickey Kantor, and Bruce Babbitt...
...York case against Clifford is strong while the one in Washington is relatively weak...
...His alleged objective: to tarnish the rep-1 utation of his old enemy, James Baker...
...Is there a chance, they wonder, that Stephanopoulos may move into their territory...
...And the losers may well be the far-flung minority pockets that got caught between Republican dreams, incumbent ambitions, and a law that sent district lines cavorting down the interstate...
...j Democrats, who had hoped Colin Powell was d closet liberal and who have been disappointed by his recent opposition to gays, military reform, and his obvious disenchantment with Clinton, received another blow when Powell announced during a recent speech that Ronald Reagan was his hero...
...I The speculation around town is that it was C. Boy-den Gray who prodded William Barr to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Clinton passport scandal...
...That's crazy...
...i Who's Who has never heard so many How Could ; You's as we've been assailed with since the publication ¦of the item about Laura Tyson having caught Bill Clinton's eye...
...The bottom line ought to be which candidate will best represent his constituents' concerns...
...j That friendly looking, reddish faced, bald fellow sitting just behind Bill Clinton's right shoulder at the Inaugura-ition was Taylor Branch, author of Parting the Waters, [the prize winning account of Martin Luther King's jearly years, and an early editor of this magazine...
...in 1993, the average is 5.56 percent...
...We decided to launch an investigation and (discovered that the briefcase you saw between his feet ihad brought to the platform Clinton's speech on which (Branch had labored along with Michael Waldman, iDavid Kusnet, and the president-elect himself during ;20 of the preceding 24 hours...
...Congeniality Award from her colleagues on the campaign...
...Craig Washington, who represents a majority-minority district...
...Veteran observers here wonder if Clinton understands the full extent of Aspin's ability to manipulate the press...
...Howard Fineman, Newsweek'?, leading Washington correspondent, lobbied Bill and Hillary to send Chelsea to Sidwell Friends, according to Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post...
...Branch and Clinton have ibeen friends since they worked together on the McGovjern campaign in Texas in 1972_____ i It may not be surprising that Bill Clinton's cabinet is dominated by lawyers—although it is bad news for ;the cause of legal reform—but did you know that it 'is also full of rich people...
...Where did the lobbying lake place...
...The 1982 version runs until 2007 and controls redistrictings for city councils, judicial districts, and other local offices...
...This is causing a lot of head-shaking among veteran journalists who remember the days of Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns, when reporters were blue-collar types who couldn't dream of attending a Renaissance Weekend or of sending their kids to an elite private school____ A quote that has inspired anxiety among local liberals comes from Thomas McLarty, the new White House chief of staff who describes himself as "in step with Bill Clinton and probably more in step with a Sam Nunn or that type philosophy...
...Only when there are ocular vibrations or other unmistakable manifestations of interest____ < Hillary Rodham Clinton's two brothers tried to ihustle major corporations to pay for their Inaugural iparty...
...Another is that after Michael Kinsley had devastated the Bush campaign for falsely reporting that Clinton had raised taxes 128 times as governor, it was Wright who triumphantly proclaimed, "It was only 127...
...Cynics suggest that this position just might be related to the fact that the New...
...There is a point of diminishing return, when minority districts are so packed that minority influence is dramatically cut in other districts," says Texas Rep...
...Usually, even when there's a change of party in the White House, smart bosses realize the lvalue of keeping smart secretaries on board...
...As of early February, Betsey Wright, a close associate of the Clintons for more than 20 years, had not been given a position in the new administration...
...If you think Les Aspin is going to lead a great crusade against excessive military spending, consider an article by John Mintz that was recently buried in the business section of The Washington Post...
Vol. 25 • March 1993 • No. 3
