Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL If you’re a female newsperson on television, you have to think about clothes. “’You study the issues, you work on your deliv- ery,” Susan Molinari...
...Three of its top executives have been indicted...
...Speaking of lobbying, you can recognize the art of a master in the team Randy Fenninger assembled on behalf of specialist physicians who opposed changes in Medicare reimbursement rules that could cost them billions...
...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL If you’re a female newsperson on television, you have to think about clothes...
...well, stay tuned...
...The big question in Washington in August was “Who’s minding the store...
...He is a Republican who has been on the bench since 1970...
...The less than clearly coincidental result: a $100,000 contribution from Enron to the Democrats, four days before India gave final approval to the project...
...Another eyebrow-raiser from the White House is Bill Clinton’s appointment of Dennis DeConcini to the board of directors of Freddie Mac, the federal mortgage corporation...
...The ideological signals from the White House are confusing...
...Paul Begala’s appointment as suggested a turn to the left, but the planned naming of Robert J. Shapiro, who has long been associated with the Democratic Leadership Council, to a top job at Commerce, indicates that the center still holds sway...
...Among the Democrats, AL Gore gets 53 percent to Jesse Jackson’s 9, Dick Gephardt’s 8, and Bob Kerrey’s 6. George W. Bush is the choice of 20 percent of the Republicans, Jack Kemp has 17, and Dan Quayle, 12...
...How could he have known that the Republicans were using foreign money just like the naughty Democrats...
...G. Thomas Eisele, a federal district court judge, has written a confidential opinion urging that Starr himself be investigated...
...There was evidence that Barbour had been advised that money from Hong Kong was foreign and therefore illegal...
...ambassador to New Delhi, keeping Lay informed of the administration’s efforts...
...The first presidential polls are in...
...The former senator from Arizona was, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, “the ringleader of the Keating Five,” the senators whose lobbying on behalf of Charles Keating and Lincoln Savings and Loan earned them not only notoriety but an investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee...
...Asked if the Clintons were in trouble, one of Ken Starr’s lawyers replied, according to The Washington Times’s John McCaslin, who has excellent Republican sources, “Perhaps not the president, but as for Hillary...
...and the vicissitudes of its $3 billion power plant in India...
...The strong shoulder of a jacket is a symbol of authority and power,” explains CNBC producer Jack Reilly...
...During the 1996 presidential campaign, Sipple created the Bob Dole ads that declared, “It all comes down to values.’’ Back to Ken Starr for a moment...
...But, according to Neil Lewis of The New York Times, Judge’ Eisele is worried about Starr’s relationship with Richard Mellon Scaife, the conservative moneybags Nurith Aizenman wrote about in our July issue and who subsidizes the public affairs school at Pepperdine University that will provide a home for Starr when he finishes his work as Whitewater prosecutor...
...Does she say these things around the house...
...We can’t help but wonder...
...The Times in a subsequent correction explained that the line had come not from The New Republic, but from a play written by Blumenthal...
...His friends think he should also sue The New Republic, which, when Blumenthal recently joined the White House staff after having written favorably about the Clintons for several years, observed a tad tartly, “he’ll get his back pay...
...Judge Eisele is not, as cynics might suspect, a Clinton appointee...
...The bad news is that his campaign adviser, Don Sipple, has been accused of wife-beating by both of his ex-wives...
...It has been reported that on a recent radio show Mary Matalin said society “panders to the poor” and that for the most part, the poor are lazy, don’t work as hard as we do, and aren’t as ambitious as we are...
...Come to think of it, not only does Blumenthal have a suit against The New Republic and the Times-he won’t need that back pay-but doesn’t The New Republic have one against the Times too...
...Sidney Blumenthal has sued Mark Drudge for libel...
...They may be interested to learn that, according to Alice Love of Associated Press, Frist owns at least $9 million worth of stock in Columbia-HCA, the company that is accused of overbilling Medicare...
...Needless to say, Fenninger’s team got what it wanted...
...But Barbour said he “did not recall” the advice...
...Clinton scrawled an FYI note to [Mack] McLarty, enclosing a newspaper article on Enron Corp...
...Maybe he should also sue His lead in the polls is the good news for Bush...
...McLarty then reached out to Enron’s chairman, Ken Lay, and over the next nine months, closely monitored the project with the U.S...
...It included two influential former congressmen, Republican Vi n Weber and Democrat Torn Downey, who could take care of the House of Representatives, and Patrick Griffin, who, as a former aide to Bill Clinton and a former Senate staffer, could take care of the White House and the Senate...
...The only physician in the Senate is Bill Frist of Tennessee...
...Many of his colleagues are said to rely on him for advice on health issues...
...The closest facsimile to a smoking gun that we’ve encountered in all the stories about the White House fundraising scandal is a short item by Michael Weisskopf in Time’s “Notebook” section...
...Connie Chung wears her anchor jacket with double and triple shoulder pads...
...As for the National Policy Forum that Barbour said is an independent think tank, the forum’s former president said, when he resigned in 1994, that any distinction between the Forum and the Republican party was a “fiction...
...You study the issues, you work on your delivery,” Susan Molinari recently told figue, “but if red works...
...At the EPA, both Carol Browner and her deputy, Fred Hansen were on vacation at the same time, as were Treasury’s Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers, and the National Security Council’s Sandy Berger and James Steinberg...
...There was one more little problem: The word in the play was “slot,” not “slut...
...If so, how does James Carville reply...
...One of the pictures that will dominate our memories of the summer of 1997 is the angelic look on Haley Barbour’s face as he testified that he wasn’t the least suspicious as he sat on the yacht owned by a Hong Kong company that was supplying the collateral for a bank loan to the National Policy Forum that wound up in the coffers of the Republican party and was used in the 1996 election...
...The New York Times, which reported The New Repablic’s words and added the following, as if it too had been said by The New Republic: ‘!A beat’s just an assignment but a slut is what you’ve become...
Vol. 29 • October 1997 • No. 10
