Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL Brokaw on Rather Al's pal DeVal The Chief's Proteges Is Bill Clinton a crook? We don’t think so, but we agree with a savvy source of ours who says the...
...Speaking about Donald Rumsfeld, a former White House official who was a main figure in Bob Dole’s campaign this year, Brokaw said, “Rummy used to get even with guys in the White House by l e a st uff to Rather that didn’t have any basis in fact:’ Brokaw and Brinkley have apologized...
...Robert Dornan, the arch-conservative in California...
...When Franken retold the joke, Dornan hesitated a beat and then said, “Oh, hell, that’s We’re glad to see the congressman has a sense of humor...
...They had Clinton at 491, Bole at 41.6, and Ross Perot at 7.7 percent...
...Lots of unsavory fellows with lots of money will have a keen interest in making sure that the commission does not display an undue commitment to reform...
...Three White House employees for whom new Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles is said to have special regard are political director Doug Sosni k, deputy communications director Victoria Radd, and women’s liaison Betsy Myers...
...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL Brokaw on Rather Al's pal DeVal The Chief's Proteges Is Bill Clinton a crook...
...Nonetheless, we have to award him gold star for a letter he recently wrote HUD secretary Henry Cisneros inquiring why, while HUD was bragging about downsizing, it was advertising for an "associate deputy assistant secretary" at a salary of $100,526...
...You may recall that the Delaware senator’s bid for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination was derailed by the discovery that, after first having given proper credit to the author, he began using sections of a speech by a British parliamentarian, Neil Kinnock, as if they were his own...
...He also may have his eye on Sylvia Matthews, a West Virginian Rhodes Schoiar who is now Robert Rubins’s chief of staff...
...People who are being conned don’t like to know they are being conned...
...Another politician for whom we never expected to have kind words is Rep...
...One likely candidate to run the inauguration is AI Gore’s friend, Fred DeVal...
...But just between us, we’re also glad he won’t be a congressman much longer...
...Guess who came closest on the presidential race: the 10th graders, of course...
...The Sunday before the election, The Washington Post's Outlook section asked various pundits, including Eleanor Clift, Mary Matalin, Morton Kondracke, Christopher Matthews, Dick Morris, and John MacLaughlin, to predict the election results...
...You have to hand it to George Stephanopoulos for the free "situation wanted" ads he got in The New yorker and Newsweek during October...
...It may sound like a job for a party-giver, but Rahm Emmanuel, who held the post in January 1993, used it as a launchmg pad to his powerful role on the White House staff...
...Franken recalled a joke he’d told a few years ago: “Getting AI D’Amato to head an ethics investigation is a little like getting Bob Dornan to head up a mental health task force...
...Alice Rivlin, the former OMB director who is now vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board, recently was overheard by one of Washington Times columnist John Mccaslin's sources saying that White House meetings "always started 45 minutes late and lasted two hours too long...
...Kemp, according to The Washington Pods AI Kamen, to whom our debt for this and other items is huge, did the same thing this year, taking an anecdote from Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children Here, originally giving credit for it, then gradually changing it until the event, a touching encounter between Kotlowitz and a little boy in a Chicago housing project, involved Kemp instead of Kotlowitz, with the little boy looking up at the vice-presidential candidate and saying “Mr...
...The reason we’ve mellowed a tiny bit is a story AI Franken, the comedian, recently told at the National Press Club...
...Our pal Mary McGlory Suspects that he was doing both, "wrapping his sel-praise in thanks for others...
...By tipping friendly journalists to his planned departure from the Clinton administration, he let potential employers know of his availability well in advance...
...Hmmm...
...Dornan called Franken to say he'd heard that Franken had done him in and asked what the joke was...
...A veteran media source tells us that Mike McCurry was not very smart to publicly announce his “be kind to the press” program...
...Look for all three to move up...
...Senator Lauch Faircloth, who helped persuade Judge David Sentelle to appoint Kenneth Starr as special prosecutor and then hired the jugde's wife to work in Faircloth's office, has not been one of our heroes...
...This year’s Joseph Biden Trophy goes to Jack Kemp...
...Was he congratulating the Secret Service or himself...
...We don’t think so, but we agree with a savvy source of ours who says the surefire litmus test will be the three appointments the President makes to the National Gambling Impact Commission...
...Outlook also asked the 10th-grade communications class at Montgomery Blair High School to make a prediction...
...Kemp, if I grow up . . I’ You’ve surely heard about David Brinkley’s unusually unkind ontheair remark about Bill Clinton, but have you heard what Tom Brokaw said about Dan Rather that was picked up on a satellite feed...
...In his victory speech on election night, Bill Clinton said, “I thank especially my Secret Service detail that has been so challenged by a president determined not to be isolated from the American people...
Vol. 28 • December 1996 • No. 12
