Who's Who
"Did he really say that?" was the question other reporters were asking one another in reaction to R.W. Apple's use of the term "straight arrow" to describe Richard M. Nixon in a front-page article...
...Others who get high marks on crime legislation: White House staffers Bruce Reed, Jonathan Prince, Elizabeth Bernstein, and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen for his efforts to persuade rank-and-file hunters not to listen to their NRA masters in Washington...
...What on earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country...
...You hear them at the grocery store deliberating the balsamic vinegar and olive oils, the cold pressed virgin olive oil vs...
...That's why they are so easily disillusioned by politics...
...the warm pressed olive oil, and you think, 'These people probably subscribe to an olive oil magazine, called New Dimension, people with too much money and very little character, people who are all sensibility and no sense, all nostalgia and no history, the people my aunt Eleanor used to call 'a $10 haircut on a 59-cent head.' "Whitewater is their kind of scandal...
...Insiders have two observations about Christopher Og-den's new biography of Pamela Churchill Harriman, which Sandra McElwaine reviews in this issue [see page 54], The sympathetic one is that it's a shame the book, which dishes plenty of dirt, is coming out now, when Harriman deserves kind words for doing a good job as ambassador and for working hard...
...It's all surface...
...As for Keillor, he recently said this about his generation and Whitewater: "My generation strikes me as self-absorbed...
...Hillary Clinton is said to have rehearsed that April 22 press conference with lawyers from David Kendall's firm, Williams & Connolly, media consultant Mandy Grun-wald, and pollster Stan Greenberg...
...It's carbonated, and it's less about what's real than it is about perceptions...
...Richard Nixon could well have spoken the very same words to John Dean or Bob Haldeman...
...Law enforcement authorities said," reports The Washington Post, "that knowledge of the scheme was so widespread, particularly among public housing dwellers, that the practice was accepted as a standard way of doing business at the troubled agency...
...But people of my generation are into surface...
...Speaking of public officials' wives whose prosperity seems to be enhanced by their spouses' electoral success, Andrea Jefferson, the wife of Congressman William Jefferson of New Orleans, is being paid, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate, $50,000 to teach one student in one course at the New Orleans campus of Grambling University, a publicly supported institution...
...And Rahm Emmanuel, whom Bill Clinton especially recognized for his role in the passage of the ban on assault weapons, is said to be one of the few aides, on a White House staff composed of the risk-averse, who is not afraid to take the ball and run with it...
...How convenient for them—to grow up in a country that offers such opportunities and blessings as would only be a fantasy in most of the world, and then check out in disillusionment...
...And Sasser may also have the support of Al Gore, his former colleague and another member of John Seigenthaler's Tennessean Democratic circle in Nashville...
...The fact that public and assisted housing could only be obtained through bribery was a well-known fact within certain segments of the community," according to the United States Attorney's office...
...If you didn't see the recent special on Kuralt, send CBS $19.95 for a tape of the show on which Kuralt says, "I think liberalism lives—the notion that we don't have to stay where we are as a society, that we have promises to keep, is liberalism...
...Michael Shaheen, the director of the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, is suspected of having been a principal source of Whitewater leaks from Justice to The Washington Post, according to Joel Bleifuss of In These Times...
...Susan Threadgill...
...In a White House where chaos is the rule, Christine Varney, the cabinet secretary, and John Podesta, the staff secretary, stand out as lonely martyrs to the cause of trying to get things organized...
...Jim Sasser and Tom Daschle are reported to be neck-and-neck in the race to replace George Mitchell as Senate Majority Leader...
...Daschle is Who's Who's favorite, but Sasser is said to have the advantage of having in David Pryor the same closest friend in the Senate as Bill Clinton...
...Bleifuss suggests this is the second time Shaheen has doled out information damaging to a president: He may have seriously injured Jimmy Carter with leaks of exaggerated details about Billygate in 1980____ While Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly's experience in the realms of substance abuse and sexual adventure does not compare with Marion Barry's, veteran observers of the Who's Who capital's municipal government say she is his equal in at least one respect: administrative incompetence...
...When the overall crime bill passes, he will have hit a trifecta...
...The editors of this magazine are always complaining that today's liberalism lacks a Will Rogers...
...Who's Who has two candidates: Charles Kuralt and Garrison Keillor...
...Lloyd Cutler is given most of the credit for selling the Clintons on the new spirit of openness at the White House that was behind the First Lady's Whitewater press conference...
...Apple's use of the term "straight arrow" to describe Richard M. Nixon in a front-page article in The New York Times...
...The latest scandal is that for three years officials of Kelly's administration have been giving housing vouchers not to the homeless who are supposed to have priority, but for bribes that ranged as high as $1,000...
...The author's humorlessness, we're told, reflects Harri-man's own earnest demeanor (she is said to be as sparkling a conversationalist as Warren Christopher), which is certainly strange in a woman who seems to have employed the arts of the courtesan with greater success than anyone else in this century...
...In case you didn't know, Cutler's "special government employee" status means that he can only serve 130 working days but that he can continue to draw a salary from his law firm and is not subject to all the conflict-of-interest rules that apply to regular employees...
...It doesn't look pretty...
...Emmanuel now has two big victories to his credit, the other being NAFTA...
...The catty view is, however, that for all its delicious revelations, the book is oddly deadpan...
...Among those taken by surprise by the First Lady's session with reporters were George Stephanopoulos, Mark Gearan, Dee Dee Myers, and David Gergen, the White House officials who are supposed to be in charge of dealing with the media...
...Those who were curious about why Bill Clinton seemed to identify with Richard Nixon in his recent remarks about the late president might consider this passage from the Gennifer Flowers' tape: After Flowers mentions her state job, the future leader of the free world replies, "If they ever ask if you talked to me about it, you can say no...
Vol. 27 • January 1994 • No. 6
