Who's Who
Who's NS After the White House travel office debacle, why was David Watkins allowed to continue in the top internal White House administrative job until he again embarrassed Bill Clinton with his...
...Morgan & Co., a company that just happens to be a big player in the derivatives market...
...Nobody here knows what to do about those pesky derivatives...
...They were written by Don Baer, formerly of U. S. News & World Report and now chief presidential speechwriter...
...It was probably evidence that the Nixon forces lad conspired with South Vietnamese eaders to sabotage October 1968 peace negotiations that, if successful, ivould have helped the Democrats see "Tilting At Windmills," page 4], The irony is that if LBJ had released his evidence before the 1968 ;lection, Nixon might have been defeated...
...The Ways and Means chairman's legal problems, wrote Broder, have inspired a "genuine sadness that has affected almost everyone in official Washington...
...Who's Who has a guess as :o what the deleted material was...
...Since they involve large risk at low cost, low, that is, until the investor loses his shirt and then the losses can become monstrous, most people here think they're a bad idea...
...Lewine was working for the Associated Press back then...
...Even those sympathetic to the Clintons are warning them to stop being defensive...
...Clinton merely are a right-wing plot to overturn the 1992 election...
...But Johnson let ^ixon know that if Nixon lid that, LBJ would release vhat the diaries then refer to is "deleted material—national >ecurity...
...This shrink believes that Clinton's erratic behavior springs from the president's attempt to control his strong sex drive...
...A recent article in Vanity Fair by Leslie Bennetts depicts Hillary Clinton as "defensive and grim" with a "pious self-righteousness...
...But Wall Streeters argue that the business, if outlawed or even vigorously regulated, would just fly to other countries...
...Nixon hreatened to reveal that (ohnson had bugged him luring the 1968 campaign...
...Trying to figure a way out of this mess is an elite team of civil servants that, according to The Washington Post's Cindy Skyrzychi, includes Treasury's Norman Carlson, the SEC's Howard Kramer, and Ronald Hobson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
...Susan Threadgill...
...We've heard lots of explanations for Bill Clinton's zigzags as president, but the most intriguing is the one offered by a Washington psychiatrist who pins the rap on the presidential libido...
...During the days between Jacqueline Kennedy's death and her funeral, CNN interviewed scores of people who had known her less well than a member of CNN's own off-camera news staff, Frances Lewine, who was not interviewed but who had spent more time covering Jackie than any other reporter in the East Wing beat during the Kennedy presidency...
...H. R. "Bob" Haldeman's ecent diaries are chock ull of seamy details about he presidency of lichard M. Nixon...
...This means Clinton's defense attorneys can look into Jones' previous experiences and bring them up at the trial if they tend to cast doubt on her testimony...
...One >f the seamiest is the litherto unknown story >f how Nixon tried to ilackmail Lyndon [ohnson into using his nfluence with congres-(ional Democrats to lelp halt the Watergate nvestigation...
...Who's NS After the White House travel office debacle, why was David Watkins allowed to continue in the top internal White House administrative job until he again embarrassed Bill Clinton with his two-helicopter golf game...
...Broder, usually considered the soul of journalistic sobriety, was ordered off the Rostenkowski story by Post executive editor Len Downie after Broder wrote a valentine column to Rosty entitled "Why Washington Grieves...
...uired publicly financed trips to Hong Kong, Aruba, nd Bangkok...
...Clinton's major Normandy speeches may not have squalled Ronald Reagan's, but most observers thought they came pretty close...
...Downie then decided to keep his star away from the Rostenkowski story, telling James Warren of the Chicago Tribune that the column was "an open declaration" of sympathy toward the embattled Chicagoan...
...The shrink also believes that Clinton would have been a great president if he had been elected 10 years later when his hormones would have cooled off____ Speaking of matters hormonal, the Supreme Court may have helped Bill Clinton in one aspect of his defense against Paula Jones...
...But lohnson was said to be so angry at Hubert Humphrey for not supporting LBJ's policy in Vietnam that LBJ refused to make the Nixon sabotage jvidence public...
...Stop denying there's a problem," writes The Wall Street Journal's A1 Hunt, who complains that "their basic pitch, in private as well as public, is that attacks on Mr...
...Observers hope it wasn't connected to a singular act of generosity in the mid-eighties when Watkins engineered the cellular telephone deal that gave Hillary Clinton a profit of $44,000 on a $2,000 investment...
...Jeremy Rosner, the soon-to-depart National Security Council staffer known for his writing ability...
...In May, the court refused to extend the "rape shield rule," which bans evidence of a victim's sexual history in criminal cases of rape, to civil cases of sexual harassment...
...You may also recall that an earlier wife f Barry's, Mary Treadwell, was convicted of em-ezzling federal money intended for a housing pro-get—after buying herself a Mercedes and Barry a folvo, who said later he had suspected nothing even hough Treadwell was making just ;23,000 at the time...
...One quiet casualty of the Dan Rostenkowski indictment is David Broder, The Washington Post's bigfoot political reporter/columnist...
...and Eric Liu, the new Generation X representative on the White House staff...
...The Comptroller of the Currency, however, has brought in one expert who may turn out to be the fox in the chicken coop: Douglas Harris, a derivatives lawyer for J.P...
Vol. 26 • January 1994 • No. 7
