Who's Who

...If this is the case, could lyson Foods still be getting paid off for its help to Bill and Hillary Clinton, including that nifty investing advice...

...Ickes, a New Yorker, moved away from Washington as a child with his mother, who was disillusioned by the city's treatment of her after she was widowed by her husband, the late secretary of the Interior...

...A year later, no new standards have been imposed...

...This may be true, of course, but wasn't the net result still a favor from Blair, who represented Arkansas' largest employer, to Hillary and to Bill, who was then leading in the polls in his first race for governor...

...Newsweek's April 4 Whitewater story that had to be corrected the following week was said to have been rushed because the magazine editors were in a panic that Time was devoting its cover to the Michael Kramer Whitewater story for its issue of the same date____ Here's what federal Judge Harold Greene, who presided over the trial of John Poindexter at which he heard extensive testimony from Oliver North, thinks of the Virginia GOP senatorial candidate: "He changed his story from what he had said in the Congress...

...He said some things which to me at least, appeared inherently incredible...

...On the other hand, it is alleged that, having maintained he had only "indirect" involvement in the FDIC's case against the Madison S&L, he nevertheless claimed in bills to the government to have worked one 20-day streak without a day off, through three weekends, averaging more than eight hours a day...

...Well, Harold Ickes, who became White House deputy chief of staff in January, is said to return the sentiment...

...This would usually be conclusive evidence that he is both a good man and an able attorney...

...One White House official offers this possible theory about Mrs...

...On the one hand, very reliable sources tell us that he was highly respected by the career attorneys at the Department of Justice...

...In a recent interview, he said, "I plan to work closely with local telephone company executives—and their employees—to make sure that they can find efficient and effective ways to get to know their own elected officials...

...But insiders who know how the ushers' office and Mrs...

...1) Before Altman recused himself from the RTC's investigation of Madison and Whitewater, he first informed not the White House but Howell Raines, the editorial page editor of The New York Times...

...Now, there are cynics out there contending that Mitchell is simply angling for the baseball commissioner's job, a $1 million-a-year plum that comes with a Manhattan apartment...

...One of Washington's less charming customs is to completely ignore widows and former wives of public officials____ It has been reported that superlobbyist Tommy Boggs (see Jon Meacham's article, page 36) has been fined $4,000 for violating federal laws on a Maryland hunting trip during which his party shot 182 ducks that they didn't even bother to collect____ Roy Neel, who left the White House in December to become president of the United States Telephone Association, is carrying out the Clinton administration's no-lobby-ing-by-former-officials pledge in a curious way...

...Two of Who's Who's most respected sources have offered glowing reviews of Cabranes and say that he is a sharp and original thinker...

...Then again, if Mitchell does take the baseball job before a health bill is passed, the jeering from this comer will be audible from Camden Yards to Candlestick Park____ You remember that Washingtonian Michael Kinsley turned down the editorship of New York magazine because he hated New York City...

...According to Bruce Fein, a Washington legal writer, the Cutler-to-Carter-to-Billy advice was taken and a criminal prosecution was avoided...

...Although Jose Cabranes is being pushed by some Hispanic groups for the Supreme Court, he is not, we are assured, simply a choice for fans of minority set-asides...

...We, however, are not that jaded...

...They cited her attempt to stonewall Whitewater, her seemingly paranoid remarks to Elk characterizing Whitewater as a plot by the president's enemies, and finally her dismissal of White House usher Chris Emery because it was alleged that Emery had leaked confidential information to Barbara Bush about the Clintons...

...Less than three months after Clinton became president, reports the Associated Press, aides to Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy ordered the department's food inspectors to halt work on tougher standards for poultry contamination...

...To Stephanopoulos' credit, however, it should be noted that he, along with David Gergen, James Carville, and Mark Gearan, recommended a lay-it-all-out-early policy—to which, by the way, the resistance was led by Hillary Clinton, Bernard Nussbaum, personal lawyer David Kendall, and Bruce Lindsey____ —Susan Threadgill...

...Bush worked together say the relationship definitely did not include dishing-the-dirt intimacy...

...On health care, insiders are whispering that Moynihan is sadly being the latter, not yet mastering the issue or pulling his weight in the Senate____ This indication of the White House access enjoyed by Joshua Steiner, the Treasury aide whose diary is being eagerly perused by special prosecutor Robert Fiske, was buried a few months back in a long article by The Washington Post's A1 Kamen: "One frustrated senior staffer, who needed Clinton's signature on a document and couldn't seem to get it, recalls turning to Steiner, who went back channel and got the president's sign-off the next day...

...It is that Springdale, Ark., broker "Red" Bone was not trying to do a favor for Hillary but one for James Blair, the Tyson lawyer who was one of Bone's best customers...

...Depending on the moment, as practically everyone knows, Daniel Patrick Moynihan can be a great man or, sometimes, a lazy, arrogant man...

...When Lloyd Cutler was White House counsel under Jimmy Carter, he is said to have kept a close watch on the Department of Justice's possible case against Billy Carter, and to have written a memorandum to the president advising Carter on what course Billy should follow to defuse the investigation...

...Clinton's cattle futures trading...

...Examples of selfless dedication to public service rare these days that George Mitchell's decision to pass up Clinton's offer of a seat on the Supreme Court so that he could marshal health reform through Congress deserves wide praise...

...By the way, what we hear about Hubbell leaves Who's Who bewildered...

...2) The very-hostile-to-the-Clin-tons lead story in Time's April 4 issue was written by Michael Kramer, for whom Altman is said to have been a friendly source in the past____ If the White House had a journalistic enemies list, by the way, Raines, whose page has been consistently severe on Clinton, and Kramer, whose wife Kimba Wood was dumped by the president, would be among its leading members...

...Until her impressive April 22 press conference, some of Hillaiy Clinton's friends were said to be concerned about her mental state...

...Now that Webster Hubbell has departed, the Clinton's man inside the Justice Department is said to be Ron Klain, a White House lawyer who has been appointed Janet Reno's counselor...

...Of course, if Emery spills Clintonian beans to The American Spectator, as some rumors have him doing, then Hillary's suspicions will prove well founded, won't they...

...Doesn't this mean that Cutler was then acting as Carter's personal counsel, rather than as counsel to the office of the president as he emphasized he would be under Clinton...

...Tom Devine, attorney for the Government Accountability Project, says, "There is no question the poultry industry receives favorable treatment compared with its competitors...

...You might legitimately ask why Whitewater dominates this column when our editors think it's a snipe hunt But why the press overplayed the story and why the Clintons and George Stephanopoulos have reacted to it with such defensive humorlessness [see 'Tilting at Windmills," page 4] continues to provide the best gossip in town...

...It appears he is fibbing either about "indirect" or about the hours he worked—or maybe both...