Who's Who

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...He is said to be hawk on such issues as the military's right to use atomi weapons in conflicts with nonnuclear powers, a doctrin we suspect many liberals don't realize is still clung to b the Pentagon...

...The conceptualizer in the national security apparatui we are told, is not Lake, Christopher, or William Pern but Perry's deputy, John M. Deutch...

...Polls show him running even in Nassau County, which is very Republican, and if they can hold George Pataki's totals down in places like that, the governor is confident that he will pull out a fourth term...

...There is a school of thinking that if Clinton is in or-fice and William Rehnquist decides to retire to spend more time with his California lady friend, Cuomo could finally come to Washington...

...Another less-known reason suggested by a friend of Who's Who is that about 15 years ago, Nichols was involved in a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife, and one of the lawyers the former Mrs...

...Some White House aides suspect that the First Lady will take on violence as her next crusade____ After a summer of worry, Mario Cuomo and his aides are said to be in better spirits about his reelection prospects...

...Reporters were embarrassed by the release c a study that proved most of their stories had an anti-Clinto tilt...

...Among those adv sors opposing the former president's trip were Tony Laki Warren Christopher, and Strobe Talbott...

...Some Cuomo watchers also think that there's still a chance the Hamlet of Albany might make it to the Supreme Court...

...And speaking of John Deutch, it cannot be said that h is excessively humble...

...Inside the White House, A1 Gore was a strong booste of Jimmy Carter's mission to Haiti...

...In a little-noticed item, Newsweek offers one reason: Lewis was negotiating with merchandisers to market T-shirts and bumper stickers emblazoned with the logo B.I.T.C.H...

...short for "Boys, I'm Taking Charge Here"), and she would have doubtless been asked about that by Democrats had she testified...

...Close observers of Capitol Hill are shaking their heads over how Lauch Faircloth, the junior senator from North Carolina, has emerged as a respectable anti-Clinton voice...

...Susan Threadgill...

...Whitewater aficionados—yes, there are a few—are wondering why Jean Lewis, the RTC official in Kansas City who blew the whistle on Madison Guaranty and is thought to be a key source for Jim Leach, aidn't show up to be a star witness at the Whitewater hearings...

...And New York magazine published a widely read arti cle defending the president by former Washington Monthl intern Jacob Weisberg...

...But then came Haiti, and the anti Clinton drumbeat resumed...

...officials whose briefing sessions with Bill Clir ton have frequently been cancelled blame their difficulty i getting through to the president on Tony Lake, who is sai to have higher regard for the intelligence output of th State Department, where he once served...

...Even the apparent success c the Carter mission in avoiding the bloodshed of an inve sion was only grudgingly conceded while White Hous correspondents and op-ed pundits devoted most of thei time to detailing presidential inconsistencies____ Clinton's big problem in the upcoming fall elections, m political gurus tell me, is not so much that the Democral will lose seats in Congress—perhaps as many as 30 of thei in the House—but that the Democrats who are defeated wi be replaced not by Republican moderates but by staunch ac herents of Newt Gingrich and Phil Gramm...

...Faircloth, you probably know, led the campaign accusing Robert Fiske of being in the tank with the Clintons...

...And the fa( that GOP strategist Bill Kristol faxes his anti-Clinton meir os not just to Republican incumbents but to House and Ser ate candidates can't be comforting to the president____ Innocence is not reputed to be among Jame Carville's more conspicuous traits, which leaves many c his friends suspecting that he is being less than candi when he writes in the new book he and Mary Matali have co-authored: "Bill Clinton did not have an affai with Gennifer Flowers...

...White House insiders are wondering how Bob Green-stein, a social spending activist who is the new number-two at OMB, will get along with his new boss, the deficit hawk Alice Rivlin...

...Why does Larry Nichols, the Arkansas man who narrates the vicious "Clinton Chronicles" videotape that Jerry Falwell peddled on his shows—reportedly selling 100,000 copies—hate the Clintons so...

...One obvious reason is that Clinton fired Nichols from the state government for making hundreds of calls on state time in support of the contras...

...They argue that Christopher has been moving vigorously to put his own stamp on departmental personnel, citing the promotions of Robert Galluci, Charles Redman, Dennis Ross, and Richard Holbrooke...

...It seemed for a while after Labo Day that the media tide might finally be turning in the pres ident's favor...

...What you may not know, however, is that Faircloth doesn't mind being in the tank himself, only with PACs, not with presidents: He held a fundraiser for his six-years-off reelection campaign the afternoon he was first sworn in to the Senate in January 1993____ Newsday has reported that A1 Gore is leading the search party for Warren Christopher's successor even as Christopher's allies busily defend him to reporters...

...the deputy secretary of Defense ha been spotted handing out souvenir ink pens with his autograph embossed on the side...

...When Leon Panetta became chief of staff, Rivlin moved up to be OMB director, and apparently the Hillary Clinton wing of the White House moved quickly to try to balance Rivlin's fiscal conservatism with Greenstein____ Speaking of Hillary, what's she going to do now...

...Nichols consulted was Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom Nichols reportedly believes advised her to leave the state with the couple's child...

...What has held him back from the Court before, insiders say, is that he wants to be Chief, not one of the eight Indians...