Who's Who
Who's Who A top official recently observed that this White House differs from its predecessors in that it has three centers of power in Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and A1 Gore, A near fourth has...
...If you continue to believe the propa-~)ganda that government employees are underpaid, consider George Stephanopoulos' purchase of a Connecticut Avenue building this May for $835,000...
...Leon Panetta will soon be a fifth, and may in fact supplani Stephanopoulos, whose star is said to be in decline...
...The latest list includes Stephanopoulos Tony Lake, Robert Rubin, Mack McLarty, Marl Gearan, Lloyd Cutler, Harold Ickes, Carol Rasco Pat Griffin, Gore chief of staff Jack Quinn, anc Hillary Clinton's chief, Maggie Williams...
...The possibility of changes in this line-up has got prac tically everyone in the White House worried, with the greatest anxiety aroused by the question "Will I survive?' followed closely by "Will I have more power, or less?' The key may lie in a study of the White House conductec by Matthew Miller, a senior advisor to Alice Rivlin anc a former McKinsey consultant who some predict wil1 emerge as a major power in the Panetta era...
...pass Aldrich Ames on to the Soviet division without any warning that he had been deemed a "drunkard" and "dead-wood" during his tenure in Mexico City...
...Why did the Latin American division of the C.I.A...
...The one condition she insisted on before agreeing to be interviewed by ABC's Sam Donaldson was that she not be asked about the "distinguishing characteris tic" on Clinton's private parts that is mentioned in the complaint in her lawsuit...
...Isn't there just a touch of hypocrisy in the GOP's embrace of family values...
...Martin Marietta was a beneficiary of $60 million in federal money to help reimburse it for the cost of acquiring the Space Systems Division of General Dynamics...
...The suspicion that losing Debra Winger unhinged Bob Kerrey has been reinforced by what he told the White House about an ad the Democratic National Committee was running in Nebraska in favor of the Clinton health plan, which Kerrey has not supported: "I said go ahead and have your fun, but I'm going to kick the crap out of you because it's a waste of money...
...Insiders suspect the motive was not complicity in a communist conspiracy, but good old-fashioned turkey farming, the traditional bureaucratic device for unloading an incompetent without having to endure the painful confrontation of firing...
...In the grand tradition of Archer Daniel Midlands' Dwayne Andreas and other corporate moguls who share their bounty with both political parties, General Colin Powell has given $1,000 each to Democrat Doug Wilder and Republican J. Marshall Coleman, who are running for the Senate in Virginia this year...
...Another sign is that one new measure of power in the West Wing is who attends Panetta's 7:30 a.m...
...he only gives his briefings verbally...
...Miller's recommendations are so secret that they haven't been writter down...
...Second, two people who helped engineer the reimbursement are William Perry, the secretary of Defense, and his deputy, John Deutch, who according to Newsday's Patrick Sloyan, were "on the payroll of Martin Marietta before joining the Clinton administration...
...And don't forget dear, sweet Bob Dole, who married the glamorous Liddy after divorcing the wife who had nursed him through his long recovery from war wounds and stood beside him as he rose through Kansas politics to power on the Potomac...
...Who's Who A top official recently observed that this White House differs from its predecessors in that it has three centers of power in Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and A1 Gore, A near fourth has been George Stephanopoulos, who is the only staff member to have shared the Big Three's power to stick his nose into any matter he chooses...
...A sure sign that Panetta knows how to go about as serting control is the fact that he has taken over all pay roll decisions in the White House...
...Fred Grandy of Iowa tells of getting "marching orders" from Newt Gingrich not to offer any constructive amendments that might enlist bipartisan support...
...With this kind of pad, maybe George can get Jennifer Grey back...
...But like Paula Jones, I have my standards...
...Speaking of Paula Jones, it should be noted she has !ier principles, that there is a standard of delicacy beyond which she will not go, at least on network television...
...a custom counter and stools for casual entertaining, the dining room for more formal occasions and of course the aforementioned roof deck with its own gas grill . . . fireplaces in both the living room and the master bedroom, both gas so as not to have to haul wood, both activated by a nearby wall switch...
...Susan Threadgill...
...I bet you thought I was going to write about those blonde hairs found on Vince Foster's body...
...The building contains commercial rental space on the first floor and what a local publication has described as "an exquisitely renovated" apartment on the top two floors, "with so many custom features that the mind boggles . . . the dumbwaiter which goes from the kitchen to the master bedroom and on up to the roof deck . . . two gas ovens for cooking 1 and an electric one for baking...
...One example, unearthed by The Washington Post's Sharon LaFraniere: When Lindsey founc out that Clinton had asked Christy Zechner, a flight attendant on the campaign plane, to work out with him ai the Little Rock YMCA, Lindsey told Zechner not to accept the invitation...
...If you doubt that the Republicans are determined to torpedo health reform, Rep...
...First, it just happens that there is a Pentagon rule against having taxpayers subsidize mergers and acquisitions...
...stafi meetings...
...Newt Gingrich sued his wife o1 18 years for divorce after she had one operation for cancer, visited her in the hospital as she recovered from another round of cancer surgery to discuss separatior terms, and then failed to keep up his alimony payments until he was sued...
...Few bureaucratic skills are more highly prized than the ability to arrange for your turkey to transfer to another division or agency where the results of his ineptitude can no longer be blamed on you...
...What's wrong with that...
...It seems that one of White House aide Bruce Lind-sey's duties is to keep the president out of Paula Joneslike situations...
...Everyone in Washington is wondering whether it was Joshua Steiner or his lawyer, Reid Weingarten, who hit upon the less-than-inspiring tactic of claiming Steiner had lied to his own diary...
...We now have a [GOP] leadership," says Grandy, "that preempts policy with politics...
Vol. 26 • January 1994 • No. 9
