Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL While she was energy secretary, Hazel O’Leary’s department awarded ICF Ka,iser a $3.5 billion nuclear clean-up contract. Guess who now sits on ICF...
...You probably heard that Princess Diana’s death and his handling of it have been called Tony Blair’s Falklands because, like Margaret Thatcher from the war, Blair has emerged from the funeral with few doubting that he will be in power a long time...
...Guess who now sits on ICF Kaiser’s board...
...Blair & Co...
...It seems that Haley Barbour, the former GOP national chairman who is now a tobacco lobbyist, persuaded his pals Trent Lott and Newt Gingrich to insert the provision that Sen...
...What was a bit curious about Burton’s enthusiasm is that the book is written in Spanish, which the congressman does not speak...
...Dan Burton brings impressive credentials to his assignment as chair of House hearings on campaign finance...
...He is especially qualified in the area of political contributions that might be deemed an attempt to influence foreign policy...
...The skinny is that he wants to be treasury secretary...
...But the office’s head, Leslie Byrne, was still able to find the money to pay for round-trip tickets to Paris for herself and an aide so she would be able to attend a conference on consumer issues sponsored by the Organization of Economic and Community Development...
...Barbour, according to Carlson, is paid $50,000 a month by the tobacco industry...
...You have already heard about his ties with Pakistan...
...In case you missed Dick Morris when he was on CNN’s “Inside Politics Weekend” last month, here’s what he said, after noting that he thought Bill Clinton was honest, “I think his staff is composed of manipulators, liars, cheaters, fakers, and phonies...
...Rep...
...If it was evident from the moment of Diana’s death that she would become the British Evita, it was less evident that Blair would become her Andrew Lloyd Webberl...
...You have to hand it to Ken Starr...
...Now that Ralph Reed has left the Christian Coalition to become a political consultant, he’s in great demand by Republicans planning to run for president in 2000...
...It turns out that Marianne Gingrich, Newt’s Wife, has an investment savvy reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s...
...The provision, which was ultimately dropped from the bill, would have permitted the Stanley Works company of New Britain, Conn, to market tools as “Made in the USA” even though they were forged overseas...
...Office of Consumer Affairs was so broke that it had to shut down its consumer hot line...
...Then again, the book‘s author, Roberto Arguello, had given $2,000 to Burton’s last campaign...
...But Dan Quayle is working hard to enlist Reed...
...Remember, he’s the Burton of the Helms-Burton Act...
...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL While she was energy secretary, Hazel O’Leary’s department awarded ICF Ka,iser a $3.5 billion nuclear clean-up contract...
...Our prediction that OMB Director Franklin Raines would be the next White House chief of staff was wrong...
...But you may have missed Adam Gopnik’s line in The New Yorker...
...One problem with this is that the incumbent, Robert Rubin, may not depart until 1999...
...He has been so SUCcessful at fundraising himself that his last campaign ended with a $900,000 surplus...
...What will conspiracy theorists make of the coincidence...
...he does keep busy...
...The smart money has him going with George W. Bush if he runs or staying neutral if he doesn’t...
...Nancy Johnson last year inserted a provision into a “techcal corrections” trade bill that would have financially benefited a tool manufacturing firm in whch she owns more than “$100,000 in stock,” according to The Hill5 Erika Niedowski...
...Kaniror and Hilley have a lot of enemies in the White House, and some feel that Berger has been in his job too short a time to move and besides, we hear that he’s less than eager to switch...
...His interest in Nicaragua is long-standing...
...The new lisi: of possible Clinton chiefs of staff includes National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, forme]: Commerce Secretary and Trade liepresentative Mickey Kantor, and John Hilley, who lobbies Congress for the White House...
...Just last February, he placed in the congressional record what The Hill calls a “laudatory statement” about a book entitled The Secret Life of the Sandinistas...
...But he also has, according to The New York Times, accepted “hundreds of thousands of dollars” from lobbyists with interests in our policies toward Guatemala, Turkey, Aruba, and Cuba, as well as Pakistan...
...Richard Durbin later was to say “shines and stlnks like a mackerel in the moonlight...
...Eiut each has . drawbacks...
...Last year she made as much as $11,000 on three quick trades through D.H...
...If you wondered how that $50 billion tax break for the tobacco companies got slipped into the budget deal, Margaret Carlson has the story...
...He was offered the job but turned it down...
...This summer, the U.S...
...The market for at least one of these stocks was, according to Mun y magazine, “dominated [by D.H...
...Another catch is that Rubin’s deputy, Larry Summers, wants the job too...
...In addition to acting as Whitewater independent counsel, he teaches a law course at New York University, serves as president of three organizations, sits on the board of seven others, makes as many as five speeches per month in places as far apart as Orlando, Fla., and Malibu, Cal., and practices law at the firm of Kirkland & Ellis where, according to walter Pincus and George Lardner Jr...
...Blair] to such an extent that prices . . . were controlled by the brokerage.’’ The firm has been fined for its actions by the National Association of Securities Dealers...
...Speaking of slipping items into bills, Newt Ginwich’s good friend Rep...
...of The Wzshington Post, he made $1.1 million last year representing such companies as GTE, General Motors, Brown and Williamson, Amoco, and Hughes Aircraft...
...Just ask David Gergen...
...Paul Begala has been given the title of "counselor to the president,” but this has not always been a good omen in Bill Clinton’s White House...
...Not only did the First Lady have unusual investment success, a Blair (Jim) was also involved and the firm that handled the transaction was disciplined...
...So stay tuned...
Vol. 29 • November 1997 • No. 11
