Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL For those who hoped that women in Congress would set a good example of how to balance work and family, Clara Bingham’s new book, Women on The Hill, is not...
...Davis, who has known Hillary Clinton since their Yale Law School days, subsequently played a role in selecting both Zoe Baird and Janet Reno to be attorney general...
...Patty Murray’s family has gone back home...
...Few of today’s White House insiders regard either choice as brilliant...
...The modern mania for celebrities-to which this column is, of course, absolutely 100 percent immune-has a perverse knack for rewarding wrongdoers, observes our old friend Matthew Miller...
...Insiders tell us no...
...After CNN’s Mark Feldstein exposed the Hoffa gang‘s attempt to r e p control of the Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa Jr.’s aides, according to Feldstein, “Threatened to investigate me and smear me in Washington...
...She didn’t get along with White House counsel Jack Quinn...
...Iran-Contra scandal had never happened and that he remained an obscure functionary who retired on a military pension after his days running rogue operations out of the White House were over...
...Among those aggrieved are David Broder, Cal Thomas, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., George Plimpton, and David Brinkley...
...No one wanted him to stay...
...I even have a tape of a Hoffa lawyer saying I will ‘burn in hell’ for the st01-y.~’ The recent appointment of Lanny Davis, a former law partner of Ron Brown’s and of the legendary lobbyist Tommy Boggs, to replace Mark Fabiani on the President’s special counsel on Whitewater shows the White House is willing to forgive mistakes by a friend...
...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL For those who hoped that women in Congress would set a good example of how to balance work and family, Clara Bingham’s new book, Women on The Hill, is not brimming with glad tidings...
...The financial troubles of Joseph E. Cosby, one of Washington’s more prominent bookers of speaking engagements has left a lot of his prominent clients feeling stiffed...
...Why was Tony Lake replaced by Sandy Berger as National Security Adviser...
...Congressional Democrats are livid with the White House for its failure to do a better job of handling the illegal contributions story as it was helping them lose their chance to become a majority in the House and Senate...
...Former White House lawyers Mark Fabiani and Jane Sherburne are said to have been dissatisfied with Bruce Lindsey’s “social visit” description of kady-Huang meetings with the President...
...The President had known for a long time that he had to get Tony out of this job,” one of Lake’s rivals told The Wsbington Post...
...He would rather have a regular, average, ordinary mother...
...Finally Mary Ellen Glynn, a deputy of Mike McCurry, was assigned to deal with the problem, but she was relieved of the responsibility after one day And a crucial press briefing was left to B.J.Thornberry, a Democratic National Committee functionary who had only recently come to the committee from the Department of Interior...
...They bring him candy...
...Days passed with no response...
...The biggest loser-to the tune of $50,557-appears to be Jesse Jackson...
...Fabiani has an inner-city revival project in San Diego that he is reported to be excited about...
...Another factor in George Mitchell’s losing after having seemed the early leader in the race for the top post at State is that the White House began to hear reports from Capitol Hill about how Mitchell plays closer-to-thevest than even Bob Dole-hardly a promising characteristic for an administrator who needs to communicate with thousands of subordinates...
...He asks, “DO you think, for example, that in his heart of hearts, Oliver North ’ wishes the...
...Some observers detect AI Gore’s hand in the selection of Madeline Albright...
...Is this why they have left the White House...
...Baird’s nannygate problems cost the President dearly in the administration’s early days, and Reno, who is thought by most White House insiders not to be tough enough on any crimesexcept those possibly committed by the Clintons-is said to survive only because she is widely admired among the general public...
...It’s hard to squeeze quality time from the crowded schedule of her weekends in the congressional district or his four or five visits a year to Washington...
...When you’re sick and you’ve lost everything and you’re looking at an 84-year prison sentence, being treated like a king has to feel pretty good...
...One, Martin sieff of the Washingtm Times, reports that Gore “strongly opposed” Sam Nunn and George Mitchell because he saw them as “prospective rivals for the presidential nomination in the year 2000 if they had the powerful base of secretary of state for the next four years!’ Certainly it is true that The Nezu Republic, which is owned by the Vice-president’s close pal and enthusiastic supporter, Martin Peretz, published two articles in the weeks before the appointment that generously praised Albright...
...Isn’t it already overstocked...
...Maybe Sherburne should reconsider...
...Cynthia McKinney left her nine-year-old son behind in Georgia...
...And you’ll be heartened by Bingham’s characterization of Pat Schroeder as turf-obsessed-a trait the men in Congress have spent decades perfecting...
...Here’s how Susan McDougal says her former husband, James McDougal, is being won over by Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr and his staff: “They drive Jim wherever he wants to go...
...He doesn’t like me in this job,” McKinney tells Bingham...
...But so (as we learn just as we go to press) is Quinn...
...And the person to whom she reported, Harold Ickes, is leaving soon...
...Of course, if you’re in the camp that thinks women should adapt to congressional culture rather than try to change it, you won’t be troubled by those stories...
...And Sherburne had other problems besides Lindsey...
...Murray, who had pioneered in letting Pam Norick, a staffer who is also a mother, work a fourday week, has told Norick the familyfriendly schedule has to stop and that she has to leave if she can’t work every day...
...Rep...
...People as different as Vernon Jordan and Hillary Clinton respected and admired his personal loyalty to the President, but did not like the fact that he created so many problems with everyone else...
...Jim told me they treat him like a king,” she said in an interview with a Reuters correspondent...
...If the rival is right, one has to wonder if the CIA is being used as a turkey farm...
Vol. 29 • January 1997 • No. 1
