Who's Who

...It would seem that Hillary Clinton is not the only woman to have undergone a major change in appearance since the 1970s...

...Politicians like Lott usually find occasion to return such favors and they often pick the moment when they can do the most damage to the career of the one who wronged them...

...And his position has been upheld by the Pentagon inspector general...

...That, we are learning from investigators into the mysteries of the Gulf War syndrome, is just what Norman Schwarzkopf did...

...It’s so hush-hush that, according to a source of our pal AI Kamen, Boxx may be running “the only public affairs office in town that has no phones...

...Lanny J.Davis, who is not the L.J.Davis whose article on Charles Keating appears in this issue, has some personal experience that seems to make him especially qualified for his new post as the White House defense person for Whitewater issues, at least according to the attorney for one of his partners in a failed business venture...

...When the venture’s creditors came attempting to collect from the parmers, Davis, the attorney told Stephen Labaton of The Nm Kirk Times, would say, “My wife didn’t sign anytmg, so I’ve got nothing to lose...

...Fred Thompson as a dark horse for the Republican nomination...

...Did you know that seemingly sober Alan Greenspan was once a devotee of Ayn Rand...

...Chambers came away unhappy...

...Early in 1960, Nixon had asked [Chambers] to lunch...

...Dennis R. Boxx has just been named communications director of the National Reconnaissance Office, the super-secret agency that operates our spy satellites...

...She always had the same look: a skirt or jeans with a baggy sweater, a kerchief around her head, bottlethick glasses, no makeup...

...Three facts that might keep him dark have recently come to our attention...

...She did her rounds early in the morning, and was still laboring when I left around midnightediting, typing, packaging, dispatching hopeless answers to un-answerable questions...

...The clue is that Garment’s book is dedicated to Osborne’s memory...

...Garment’s book may shed light on another mystery of that era, which was how the liberal New RepubZic‘s John Osborne had such good sources in the conservative Nixon White House...

...Mayer says Greenspan once wrote “a truly nutty piece” for her magazine...

...In light of the above, and a report from a friend of ours who recently saw Garment locked in conversation with Bob Woodward at a party for Katharine Graham given by Ben Bradlee, should we add another suspect to the list of possible Deep Throats...

...Thus Kathleen Wallman recently became Gene sperling’s chief of staff, replacing Jason Goldberg, who is becoming special assistant to Clinton’s chief of staff Erskine Bowles, who of course has his own chef of staff, Victoria Radd...

...He’s not an early riser...

...And to top it dl off, Dick Morris says in his book Behind The OvaE Ofice, that Thompson reneged on a promise to vote for Trent Lott to be majority leader...

...The latest example is Linda Daschle, wife of Democratic Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, who is leaving the FAA, where she was acting administrator, to join the law firm of former Republican Senate minority leader Howard Baker...

...Linton Weeks of The Washington Post reports that many Tennesseans believe Thompson is too laid-back to run for president...

...Nixon, you will recall, had become a national political figure by supporting Chambers against Hiss...

...Perhaps, it is because he fears it would be interpreted as an act of revenge for FBI help to the various special prosecutors...

...Washington’s great revolving door never stops...

...Grunwald, a former editor of Time, who in his early days was a protege of Whittaker Chambers when Chambers was the magazine’s foreign editor, tells of a conversation he had during the 1960 campaign in which Richard Nixon was running for president against John Kennedy...

...This, in the diversity calculus that seems to govern these matters in the Clinton administration, was the last white man’s slot available, and nieant that hispanic Federico (ValuJet is safe) PeFia got Energy and that black Alexis Herman has to be proposed for labor...

...The firms will say they are acquiring expertise and would, of course, never even think of using whatever influence their new members might possess...

...Bill Clinton is said to dislike Louis Freeh and to have serious doubts about his competence...

...Though he had every reason to support him, Chambers felt that Nixon lacked deep conviction...

...In our December issue Michelle Cottle identified Tennessee Sen...

...Another: Tom O’Donnell, who was chief of staff to White House economic guru Laura D’Andrea Tyson, is joining the Patton and Boggs law firm...

...he told me ‘I rather pity him...

...Well, why then doesn’t the President fire the FBI director...

...Another tidbit from Len Garment’s book is his description of Diane Sawyer during the period she worked under Press Secretary Ron Ziegler in the Nixon White House: “Diane Sawyer was one of these Stakhanovites, constantly working...

...Hmm...

...We find out in One Man’s America, the autobiography of Henry Grunwald...

...For those of you who can stand one more item from the Nixon era, read on: Richard Nixon was especially proud of his role in championing Whi tt aker Chambers against Alger Hiss...

...So swears Martin Mayer in his new book The Bankers...

...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL Deep Throat Parties Allan Shrugged Lott's Revenge Why did Harris Wofford, who enjoyed stmng union support, fail to get appointed Secretary of Labor, the job he was widely rumored to be slated for by the White House...

...Incidentally, have you noticed how many White House staff members have their own chiefs of staff...

...Did you know a general can order a subordinate officer to keep logs of the general’s conversations, including his discussions with foreign leaders, and then upon leaving the service claim that the logs are his private property...

...More damaging may be the revelation by Richard Nixon’s White House counsel Leonard Garment in his new book, Crazy Rhythm, that when Thompson was minority counsel of Sam Ervin’s Watergate investigating committee, he was secretly being supplied with pro-Nixon materials and questions by the Nixon White House-roughly comparable to Christopher Darden’s taking his marching orders from Johnny Cochran...

...In case you missed it, here’s what White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry said when asked what he thought of the scenario of a feeding chain between “nut-case” conservative groups and publications like The Washington Times, which is laid out in a summary made available to the press of the 331-page White House report on the subject: “I believe that summary-that-it provides-I mean, that’s the materialit supports the material that-I mean it explains and describes the material that is attached to it...

...In a recent speech, the newly retired senator from Wyoming, Alan K. Simpson, described one of the pleasures of being out of politics: ‘When someone wallrs up to you at a gathering, puts their hand over their name tag, and says, ‘I bet you don’t know who I am,’ I can say, ‘No, and I don’t give a rat’s ass...

...What did Chambers think of Nixon...

...The inside story we hear is that AI Gore WAS determined to give the IXTD cabinet post to Andrew Cuomo...