Who's Who
WHO'S WHO Leon Panetta was recently asked whether his predecessor at OMB, Richard Darman, had given him any advice. "Yes," Panetta answered, "and every bit of it was about how to screw your...
...State Department officials are, of course, convinced that the White House was also motivated by a desire to save some of the appointments to reward the politically faithful...
...During just one three-month period last year, according to Jack Anderson and Michael Binstein, he charged to House expense—that means you and me—$5,570.65 for "working lunches and dinners" catered by La Brasserie, a French restaurant on Capitol Hill...
...But the main knock against Stephanopoulos is not that he was gulled by a Hollywood starlet but that he has far too little humor to play the role of defuser that Pierre Salinger, among others, performed so well in John Kennedy's White House...
...And some observers feel that George Stephanopoulos let Jennifer Grey's press agent make a fool out of him...
...I thank you for calling...
...Yes," Panetta answered, "and every bit of it was about how to screw your enemies...
...McCaslin, who hesitated to credit the report because Monday was not a legal holiday for federal employees, called the senator's office and heard this recorded message: "This is Senator Robert Byrd...
...It seems that Richard Gephardt, the House majority leader, likes to dine well while pondering matters of state...
...The sad truth that Birnbaum didn't report but that we hear from friends is that Clinton's temper is feared by everyone on the staff, which means they are disinclined to speak up for fear of provoking his displeasure...
...Al Gore's continuing influence was demonstrated again in May when Janet Reno appointed Frank Hunger, Gore's brother-in-law and close friend, to run the Justice Department's civil division, and Clinton named Roy Neel, Gore's chief of staff, to be White House deputy chief of staff...
...John McCaslin of The Washington Times heard a rumor that Senator Robert Byrd was going to close his office the Monday after the Gay Rights March so that he wouldn't have to deal with homosexual lobbyists...
...Susan Threadgill 32 The Washington Monthly/June 1993...
...Donna Shalala has abolished the DHHS office that employed Walter Stewart, an expert on scientific fraud...
...According to The Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Birnbaum, Clinton gave his communications director a tongue-lashing, bellowing "This isn't true...
...The rumor that Alice Rivlin will be fired will, we understand, turn out to be untrue not because Clinton wouldn't like to get rid of her but because Rivlin's respectable Washington constituency is more than he can afford to take on at this time...
...One reason, he told a reporter, was that his "book was not ready in time...
...Cynics wonder if the action might be related to the fact that Stewart had accused the University of Wisconsin, then under Shalala's leadership, of a "scandalous cover up" of a scientific fraud case...
...How, in other words, could he have been expected to come forward when doing so would not have aided his book sales...
...My office is closed at this time...
...In early spring, Warren Christopher sent the White House a list of 30 ambassadorial nominees drawn entirely from the ranks of the Foreign Service...
...Clinton blamed Stephanopoulos for the newspaper article that said sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt had bad-mouthed him...
...The White House rejected most on the ground of inadequate EGG diversity...
...This problem is exacerbated by Clinton's apparent belief that he's smarter than anybody else around, except Hillary____ Roll Call reports what it calls "a potential nightmare" for the Clintons...
...Some say Neel lacks the necessary toughness, but he was so highly respected by the Clintons that he was one of the five associates who regularly joined them in the cabinet-making meetings during the transition...
...Neel's appointment may only be coincidentally related to the recent revelation that his now co-deputy, Mark D. Gearan, has been keeping a camcorder in his desk so that he can film visiting movie stars...
...The cynics are also wondering if Clinton's decision to reverse restrictions on a West Coast fishery has anything to do with the fishery's acquisition by Clinton's old friends at the Arkansas-based Tyson's Foods...
...Why didn't George Shultz disclose before last fall's elections his evidence that George Bush knew about the Iran arms-for-hostages deal much earlier than Bush had admitted...
...EGG, in case you don't know, refers to ethnicity, gender, and geography...
...Please leave your name," etc...
...It is the possibility that the price control part of the administration's health plan could wind up under the jurisdiction of a Senate banking subcommittee chaired by their dear friend, Senator Richard Shelby, who, you will recall, the White House regarded as the one Democratic traitor on the economic stimulus package...
...The traditional struggle between the White House and the Foreign Service over embassy appointments has made its first appearance in Bill Clinton's administration...
Vol. 25 • June 1993 • No. 6
