Who's Who
Insiders say the person on the White House staff who has the most influence on economic policy is not Robert Rubin, the director of the National Economic Council, but Rubin's young deputy, Gene...
...But have you heard about his subsequent attempt to clarify that statement on a radio show hosted by Don Imus...
...Imus commented, "I mean that's like saying you didn't inhale, Mr...
...j Jerry Seper of The Washington Times is becoming the Bob Woodward of Whitewater...
...At a recent conference Lake was unwilling to answer when asked why William Perry would be a better secretary of Defense than Les Aspin...
...We're sure you've read about Bill Clinton's statement that he had put astroturf in the back of his pickup for a purpose he was sure his audience didn't want to know...
...It named five prominent public figures who should not be part of the next Democratic administration...
...Come on, here...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher was not even invited to an important White House strategy session the morning of Bill Clinton's meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa...
...Bill and Hillary Clinton cannot be comforted by the news that special prosecutor Robert Fiske contributec $1,000 to Senator Alfonse D'Amato's campaign in 1992...
...President...
...No," replied Clinton, "it's just that I didn't inhale in the back of the pickup...
...he ha not tried to cultivate freshmen politically...
...R. W. "Johnny" Apple of The New York Times is alleged to have been caught switching the seating arrangement at a recent dinner party at the Spanish Embassy...
...The Senate, where Democrats must decide on a replace ment for George Mitchell, is not the only chamber where ; leadership contest looms...
...Now comes a new twist from Federico Pefia, the secretary of Transportation...
...Spirits sink or soar at Washington dinner parties as guests take a peek at the seating charts and realize that they've won the lottery by being placed next to the man or woman of their dreams or that they have been condemned to endure the most boring person in town or the icy silence of an old enemy...
...The disgruntled freshmen are hoping that Foley will have an opponent that they can support...
...Then on February 9 Seper revealed that the Rose Law Firm had been shredding Whitewater documents...
...and he isn't force Who's Who ful enough to be able to convince Democrats to fall in line with controversial bills...
...zine entitled "The Powers That Shouldn't Be...
...Susan Threadgill...
...Some freshmen members of th House of Representatives are threatening that they will refusj to back House Speaker Tom Foley when he tries to renev his post in December...
...The scandals in the Clinton administration have yet tc produce an indictment or conviction, something that cannoi be said for the Reagan and Bush administrations, whose latest felonious alumnae include Deborah Gore Dean, the former executive assistant to Samuel R. Pierce, Reagan...
...Beth Peters, the wife of our editor, has on three occasions been seated next to a public official who had recently been described in these pages in terms the victim clearly thought uncharitable...
...The freshmen Democrats (who woulj not dare reveal their names) complain that Foley hasn't be© responsive to freshmen congressional reform efforts...
...Realizing that his creden tials as manager of the 1992 Republican National Con vention wouldn't command inside access to the Clintoi White House, he volunteered to round up Republicai votes for NAFTA...
...Their preferences: Majority Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, Majority Whip David Bonior of Michigan, or Representative George Brown of California____ The most photographed mailbox in history, the one that the accused spy Aldrich Ames is said to have marked with chalk to communicate with his Russian contacts, is at the corner of 37th and R streets, a few blocks west of Georgetown and just across the street from the house in which Katharine Graham and her late husband, Philip, began their marriage more than 50 years ago...
...He didn't want to sit next to the person his hosts had intended to place at his side...
...An alumnus of the campaign, Sperling is part of the powerful George Stephanopoulos gang, which is said to overshadow officials like Leon Panetta, Alice Rivlin, Lloyd Bentsen, and Roger Altman, all of whom joined Clinton after the election...
...Clinton said the astroturf "wasn't for what everyone thought it was for" but that it protected his luggage...
...You've heard of politicians blaming their speechwriters for mistakes in their speeches...
...We are told that most foreign policy decisions are being made by a group consisting of Tony Lake, Sandy Berger, Frank Wisner, and Peter Tarnoff, and on matters affecting the former Soviet Union, Strobe Tal-bott...
...Johnny has our sympathy...
...HUD Secretary, and Catalina Vasquez Villalpando, Trea surer of the United States under George Bush...
...One difference between Aspin and Perry is in their regard for Graham Allison, an Aspin appointee whose resignation was quickly requested by Perry...
...Fuller's legwork may have paid of when the administration dropped the proposed excise ta: from $2 to 75 cents on tobacco products such as thost manufactured by Fuller's client Philip Morris...
...One of the five was Perry, of whom Glastris remarked, "He approved dud weapons, opposed independent testing, discouraged dissent, and has a license plate that reads HI TECH...
...His story was subsequently corroborated by a front page story in The New York Times, but not until March 4...
...Sperling's power is also based on hard work, staying up late and getting up early so he can put his memos ori important desks when no one is around to object...
...Allison had also made, we were told, two influential enemies, Frank Wisner and Strobe Talbott____ In 1987, Paul Glastris wrote an article for this maga...
...Writer Sheila Kaplan offer...
...Retracting a statement he had made in a letter that was inconsistent with Clinton administration policy, Pena said the letter was not signed by him but by his autopen...
...We have already noted how he beat the competition on the removal oil papers from Vince Foster's office...
...Insiders say the person on the White House staff who has the most influence on economic policy is not Robert Rubin, the director of the National Economic Council, but Rubin's young deputy, Gene Sperling...
...John Kasich, the Ohio Republican on the House Budget Committee, represents a dangerous combination for the administration: He is very smart and very conservative—and knows how to give administration witnesses fits by exposing phony budget items...
...How do Republican lobbyists gain favor with < Democratic administration...
...Craig Fuller as an example...
Vol. 26 • January 1994 • No. 4
