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WHO'S WHfl Newcomers to Washington don't relish the trip to D.C.'s infamously torpid Department of Motor Vehicles to register their cars (as is required by law), but it seems that many of Clinton's...
...Yes," replied the friend, "but after three years, not three months...
...President, I'm sure you have more important things to do than talk to me" to which Clinton replied "Oh no, no" and continued to talk for another half hour...
...Is this what it was like then...
...If Jordan had attended all the meetings he was supposed to attend in order to earn his fees, he would have gone to 79 regular board meetings and 95 committee meetings...
...Speaking of the president's potential opponents, one within his own party that we hear Clinton is making herculean efforts to mollify is Sam Nunn...
...Powell is developing into a powerful speaker...
...Key White House gatekeepers, the people to see if you want to see their bosses, are Heather Beckel for George Stephanopoulos, Diane Pierce for David Gergen, and BUI Burton for Thomas McLarty____ Brit Hume, who, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg's moving remarks in the Rose Garden, asked Bill Clinton the question that made the president lose his temper, was not known for directing similar queries toward his friend and tennis partner, George Bush...
...With people like Ickes, Gergen, and the speechwriter being added and no one leaving, the administration is having a tough time holding to its pledge to cut the White House staff...
...the Bobster or the Dark Prince of Gridlock, may owe his dark hair to the skills of a beautician...
...WHO'S WHfl Newcomers to Washington don't relish the trip to D.C.'s infamously torpid Department of Motor Vehicles to register their cars (as is required by law), but it seems that many of Clinton's top people have passed on the experience altogether...
...Even though everyone here knew that the Reagan-Bush years were not characterized by regulatory zeal, few were prepared for the report in The New York Times that Bush's top coal mining regulator, Harry M. Snyder, is being investigated for allegedly having blocked enforcement of the strip mining law, helping coal mine operators avoid prosecution, and reducing fines...
...Assuming, however, no Hillarian coup, hope for improvement in the president's staff now rides on Harold Ickes, whose New York friends assure us possesses the decisiveness that has not been one of the West Wing's more conspicuous virtues____ A reliable source predicts that one of David Gergen's first moves will be to add a speechwriter to the White House staff...
...asked a White House staff member when he recently sat down to lunch with a friend who had served in Jimmy Carter's administration...
...Insiders tell us that Hillary's, led by Maggie Williams and Melanne Verveer, is considerably more efficient than his...
...Nunn recently told a friend that Clinton had called him and talked for more than 90 minutes...
...Recently demoted political director Rahni Emanuel hasn't registered either, though given his precipitous fall from grace, his home state plates may soon suffice...
...Vernon Jordan's compensation from directorships totaled $686,000 in 1991 according to the Crystal Report, which analyzes corporate pay and perks...
...This we are told may have been another reason for firing the White House travel office...
...In fact, back then he had become, as Who's Who reported in December 1991, "the object of ridicule by the press because of his obvious sympathy for [Bush...
...Hume, by the way, merits "Star of the Issue" honors for this edition of the Monthly...
...See Tilting at Windmills and "Bad News Bearers...
...The Republicans who were so indignant about Bill Clinton's Hairport may have a hair scandal of their own...
...He also does not like, according to one friend, "Clinton's tendency to publicly think out loud before finalizing what he thinks he's going to do...
...At the one hour point, a weary Nunn said "Mr...
...It seems that Robert Dole, a.k.a...
...According to DMV's records, car-drivers Thomas McLarty, Ira Magaziner, Hazel O'Leary, Donna Shalala, Mickey Kantor, George Stephanopolous and others are not on the district's rolls...
...Susan Threadgill July/August 1993/The Washington Monthly 19...
...Bill Clinton could also take lessons from her on how to choose and organize a staff...
...Every word Powell says in public is well considered, and he thinks that should be the same with a president, especially if it involves a potential use of force...
...Almost everyone who knows the two of them well says she has the discipline he lacks...
...The Senate barbershop is the old-fashioned kind with seven chairs, except for one feature: It has a backroom where transforming rites are said to occur and from which the senior Senator from Kansas is reported to periodically emerge looking considerably younger than his 70 years____ Maybe Hillary Clinton ought to throw more things at the president...
...The opponent Clinton is said to fear the most is General Colin Powell...
...If the travel work had been contracted out as the Clin-tonites planned, then seven slots would have been open for new hires like Ickes and Gergen...
Vol. 25 • June 1993 • No. 7
