Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL We applaud Hillary Clinton’s recent efforts to help the District of Columbia. But some people wonder why she’s expressing concern now instead of four...
...Lindsey was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an earlier Whitewater case...
...Kasich, it seems, is going to skip the Senate so he can go straight for the presidency...
...Remembering the complicated Rube Goldberg charts that Magaziner devised for the Clinton health care program, one wag predicts, ‘Now trade with Europe will go through the Panama Canal, loop around the tips of South America and Africa hang a left at the Indian Ocean, through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean...
...But Bethune was given a golden parachute worth $368,000...
...I bet you were thinking you would be spared another item about Richard Nixon...
...You will not be shocked to know that, according to The Hill’s Sarah Pekkanen, “Shuster repeatedly acted in the interests of several groups that Eppard represented...
...The Nation’s story does not offer conclusive proof of Reske‘s charge, but does offer clear evidence, in the form of a handwritten note from Starr to Reske’s editor, that Starr made suggestions for ABA 30umats Whitewater coverage...
...Cyndy does not have any postemployment restrictions and will be very active on the Hill...
...Rep...
...By August 1987, just before he announced his resignation, it was, according to The Arkansas Times, “$22.1 million in the hole...
...Edward M. Kennedy’s friends as he was finishing his forthcoming book The Shadow President: Ted Kenlzedy in Opposition...
...David Dreyer is leaving the Treasury Department, where he was an adviser to Robert Rubin and where he did not, as we suggested in one of our more spectacular goofs, write Primary Colors...
...But some people wonder why she’s expressing concern now instead of four years ago...
...One explanation offered by local cynics is that the only grand jury that could indict her for those pesky billing records consists of citizens of the District of Columbia...
...But his greatest danger is said to come from the possible payment of hush money to Webster Hubbell...
...It spent 5,661 investigating Madison Guaranty, which had the much lower pricetag of $73 million...
...Henry Reske, formerly of the American Bar Association J O U V Z ~ ~ , tells Murray Waas of The Nation that he thinks he lost his job because of Kenneth Starr’s complaint about Reske’s coverage of Whitewater issues...
...In this case, we credit the First Lady with a predominance of the former...
...Since Ann Eppard is another former staff person, as distinguished from a former member, she is similarly liberated...
...Bethune, state chair of the GOP, was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1988...
...The rumor is that Ira Magaziner will be named undersecretary of commerce for international trade, replacing Stuart E. Eizenstat who is going to State...
...Why then, doesn’t Congress investigate...
...In the year after Ann Eppard left the staff of House Transportation Chairman E.G.“Bud” Shuster, she opened a lobbying company that earned $600,000 from the transportation industry...
...Haldeman to put permanent tails and coverage “including ‘more use of wiretapping,”’ on Democratic leaders Edward M. Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie, and Hubert H. Humphrey, Haldeman rephes that somebody already had been hired to tail the targeted Democrats...
...As for our own view, The Threadgill Theory of Multiple Motivation holds that for any human action there are many reasons, some noble, some less so...
...When White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles combined the two morning staff meetings that were held under his predecessor Leon Panetta, he succeeded in ticking off the big shots who prized the distinction of being among the few who attended the senior staff meeting and also the very little shots who used to get to attend the deputies meeting, where they were at least able to sit in the back and sometimes even made it up fmnt when their boss could not attend...
...He laughed, if warily,” writes Hersh...
...According to Elisabeth Bumiller of The New Ywk Times, it’s through Rahm Emanuel, who Bumiller calls “the White House’s new George Stephanopoulos...
...When Ed Bethune took over as head of Little Rock’s First Federal Savings and Loan, it had assests of $1.7 billion...
...Fit Federal was taken over by the FDIC a couple of years later...
...From all we hear, the person at the White House most likely to be indicted is not Bill or Hillary Clinton but Bruce Lindsey, a White House lawyer who is the president’s closest confidante and overseer of the Whitewater defense team...
...John Kasich told George will that “there just aren’t enough hours left in my life that I can get everything done that I want to get done...
...At the same time, reports the JOUT+of TU~ Commerce, she helped raise $655,000 for Shuster’s re-election campaign...
...Thus Kasich says he won’t run for the Ohio Senate seat that will, because of John Glenn’s retirement, open up in 1998...
...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL We applaud Hillary Clinton’s recent efforts to help the District of Columbia...
...Now you may understand why Bill and Hillary Clinton sometimes seem to feel sorry for themselves...
...I’m writing a book here about death and redemption, and I would not like to be surprised on publication day by Bad Teddy’s resurrection,” Hersh said to the friend...
...If you wonder why Ann Eppard wasn’t governed by restrictions on lobbymg by former congresspersons, an explanation can be found in a letter Jack M. Fields Jr., a former House Commerce Committee member, wrote to prospective lobbying clients, offering to help them with issues before the Commerce Committee...
...Burton Hersh tells of a conversation he had with one of sen...
...During the Bush Administration, the Resolution Trust Corporation spent 13 hours investigating First Federal, whose bailout cost taxpayers $833 million...
...Gary Ruskln, director of the Congressional Accountability Project explains: “Congressman Bud Shuster controls whether any member of Congress gets a road in their district!’ How does George Stephanopoulos keep in touch with his old pals at the White House and get in his cents’ worth when he feels like it...
...I think you7re O.K.,’ he assured me after a moment...
...Our source was so good-but alas also so wrong...
...Starr’s complaints, he suggests, were not taken lightly because Starr was and is a member of ABA3ournaPs editorial board...
...While he, as a former congressman, is prohibited from lobbying for a year, he comforts potential customers with these happy tidings: “Cyndy Wilkinson, who was my staff counsel on the Commerce Committee, has joined me in this practice...
...But we can’t resist this tape found by the San Francisco Examiner: After Nkon instructs H.R...
Vol. 29 • April 1997 • No. 4
