Who'S Who
_A_ WHO'S WHO Bruce Babbitt, the secretary of the Interior, is said to have been left out of the loop when the White House decided to cave on the issue of grazing fees and mining royalties. The...
...She called back to add that he had worn Lauren suspenders...
...Susan Threadgill 36 The Washington Monthly/May 1993...
...Johnson & Johnson has retained the Wexler Group, which recently hired Betsey Wright, who was Bill Clinton's chief of staff when he was governor and who, like the firm's head, Anne Wexler, has been an FOB and FOH for more than two decades____ There was quite a contrast between Bill Clinton's involvement at the beginning of the Waco crisis and at the end...
...The aide said that Wilson had in fact worn a single-breasted Giorgio Armani tux, black suede Ralph Lauren shoes, and black silk Armani boxer shorts...
...One night as Nussbaum was giving her a lift home, she told him about her boyfriend whom she described as a young lawyer who planned to become president of the United States...
...The Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Birnbaum disclosed that Clinton got sufficiently involved in the details of the operation on opening night to direct that Bradley fighting vehicles be kept out of sight to avoid inciting more violence...
...Fielding not only avoided prosecution, but was the beneficiary of benign neglect by The Washington Post...
...His attorney, Fred Fielding, is one of Washington's great experts in how to escape indictment even when seemingly caught red-handed...
...The suspects, according to the New York Observer's Charles Bagli, include Mario Cuomo, Rudolph Guiliani, and John Gleason, a federal prosecutor who led the investigation of David Dinkins for whose mayoral campaign Ickes had served as counsel...
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...City Council Chairman John Wilson recently had an aide call The Washington Post to complain about a description of his attire that had appeared in the paper's Style section...
...Clinton alone conducts meetings from the American side, while his aides seem rather intimidated...
...A similar bit of miscasting may have occurred with the appointment of Madeline Kunin, whom many thought was ideally suited to head the Environmental Protection Agency, to the No...
...Don Wilson, the former archivist who signed the order giving George Bush exclusive access to the computer records of his presidency, hired a lawyer to defend himself against allegations that his action might have been influenced by the prospect of a job at the Bush library...
...This leaves the undisputed fact that Ickes served for eight years as counsel to Local 100 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Union, which during that period was allegedly controlled by two Mafia families...
...That's bad news for Ickes since the probe probably won't be concluded until 1994...
...Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but a few years later a "Whd's Who" source attended a small party at Ben Bradlee's at which the guests included Woodward, Katharine Graham, and Fielding...
...She then made a third call in which she said that for an event later that evening, Wilson wore his double-breasted Armani tux, Gucci footwear, and a "Free D.C...
...Bagli's story contains convincing evidence that one charge against Ickes—that he had lied to a grand jury—is false...
...The American Hospital Association has engaged Beryl Anthony, the former Arkansas congressman...
...In 1973, Bernard Nussbaum, now the White House counsel, worked with Hillary Clinton on the staff of the House Judiciary committee when it was considering the impeachment of Richard Nixon...
...This has led some Watergate afficiandos to wonder whether Fielding was Deep Throat himself or at least a major source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein...
...In 1972, Fielding supervised the break-in of Howard Hunt's White House safe as part of the Watergate cover up...
...The president says he would have lost the votes of five Western Democratic senators if he hadn't surrendered...
...2 spot at the Department of Education____ D.C...
...George Miller think Clinton could have negotiated a compromise that would have salvaged more of the reforms he had proposed____ A revealing nugget about the new president's style was buried in a long story by Thomas Friedman and Elaine Sciolino of The New York Times: "Another thing that strikes all foreign visitors is how Mr...
...His secretary of State and national security advisers speak only if called upon by the President...
...Knowledgeable observers like California Rep...
...The health industry is making sure its lobbying firms have lots of FOBs and FOHs on their rosters of partners and associates...
...Clinton is said to be awaiting the results of the investigation of the local by a court appointed monitor...
...Who poisoned Bill Clinton on Harold Ickes, who was slated to be White House deputy chief of staff until his appointment was derailed in January...
...At the end of the 51-day standoff, however, Clinton seemed at first to try to avoid leaving his fingerprints on the final tear-gassing decision____ The big problem, observers contend, with Hazel O'Leary as secretary of Energy is that she knows nothing about nuclear power or nuclear weapons, two of the department's thorniest responsibilities...
Vol. 25 • May 1993 • No. 5
