Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL Reporters who accompanied AI Gore on his recent trip to China noticed that Tipper-who had heretofore been very friendly with the press, once even dancing...
...Is Red Cross head Elizabeth Dole planning to seek the presidency in 2000...
...When Mike begins to look that way, it’s man-the-boats time...
...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL Reporters who accompanied AI Gore on his recent trip to China noticed that Tipper-who had heretofore been very friendly with the press, once even dancing with the photographers-didn’t come back to the press section at all...
...Their employment, plus Elizabeth Dole’s recent hiring of two other excampaigners for her personal staff,” is what has aroused Greve’s interest...
...Some people at The Washington Post must have felt a little uncomfortable when the paper’s “Reliable Source’’ gossip column reported the marital difficulties of New Erk Times Foreign Editor Bill Keller...
...To drum up support, he sent a letter to his colleagues saying ‘When Is A Language Not A Language...
...In the process of this laudable endeavor, he keeps saying, according to our source, “the man wants...
...Another tidbit from Bob Reich’s new book: “What’s so galling is that the decision [to fire Mack McLarty and hire Leon Panetta] was made without any of us having a clue...
...Our guess is that the vice-president will not be permitted to forget those words...
...Is the president capable of such cynicism...
...the Cabinet...
...Consider not only Morris, but Gordon Liddy and Ollie North...
...John Conyers Jr., reports the Los ATzgeles Times, “was not amused...
...Another is Mari Maseng Will, wife of the columnist George Wi 11...
...We believe Al can beat either or both...
...One veteran Washington observer tells us to watch Mike McCurry if you want to know when the scandals have finally gotten to the Clinton White House: ‘‘Remember that zombie aspect Ron Ziegler assumed when Watergate reached disaster stage...
...Will the Times retaliate, they must wonder, by publishing accounts of the new girlfriend Len Downie is said to have or of the reported suit by Bob Woodward’s ex-wife Frances Barnard for non-payment of child support for their daughter...
...As for what the other guys have up their sleeves for 2000, Paul Wellstone, the senator from Minnesota, is rumored to be close to deciding whether to challenge AI Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...When It’s Ebonics...
...The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Frank Greve has found evidence that she’s at least flirting with the idea: “Three top advisers from Bob Dole’s campaign have won sixfigure consulting contracts from the American Red Cross...
...Nothing gets done in this wildly disorganized White House unless B. orders it done (and even then there’s no guarantee),” writes Robert Reich in his new book, Locked i...
...Peter King, a Republican congressman from New York, has introduced a resolution to deny federal funding to “any program that is based upon the premise that ‘Ebonics’ is a legitimate language...
...He’s said to aspire to be the Rush Limbaugh of the center...
...Well, it could have been worse,” one White House observer told us, “He could I have said HI...
...One of the advisers, Melinda Farris, is best known for enhancing the image of Barbara Bush...
...I now know what it must feel like to be inside the central palace in a banana republic during coup d’etat when the only reliable informatioii comes from cable news...
...He pointed out more than 20 errors of grammar and form in King's missive...
...But he should fire the adviser who gave him that line about “controlling legal authority...
...He must have a very high opinion of either the Panettas’ skills as educators or Leon’s potential for attaining the governership of California, a post in which he would be able to do nice things for Munitz’s institution...
...Our source worries that unenforcable pledges from the private sector may provide an illusion of employment opportunities that will excuse the president and Congress from acting to make sure that real jobs are available for the people who they are throwing off welfare...
...By the way, have you noticed how a career in talk radio is a new alternative to a lifetime of disgrace...
...Lots of people like Anne, but she has a few detractors who fear her loyalty is a little too unquestioning to be good for Bill and Hillary, neither of whom would ever be in danger of getting an A in Self-criticism 101...
...Bill Clinton’s pal Eli Segal is reported to be hustling CEOs to pledge to hire welfare moms...
...Gore is said to be more worried about the possibility that Dick Gephardt will take him on...
...Laura [Tyson], Bob [Rubin], and Gene [Sperling] spend most of their waking lives within these walls and yet didn’t hear a word of it...
...Her demeanor seemed sour, but no one could figure out if she was sour at Al or the media...
...Dick Morris, we hear, wants a radio show on which he can discuss his polling results and pontificate...
...Is the Congress...
...Practically everyone is convinced that Anne Lewis will succeed Don Baer as director of communications at the White House...
...Hmmm...
...Barry Munitz, the Chancellor of California State University, has hired Leon Panetta at $900 a day and Sylvia Panetta at $500 a day...
...To drum up support, he Peter King, a Republican congressman from New York, has introduced a resolution to deny federal funding to “any program that is based upon the premise that ‘Ebonics’ is a legitimate language...
Vol. 29 • May 1997 • No. 5
