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Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL Love Boat Legislatures Stampede of the Arkansas The President's Jester Remember how Erskine Bowles missed home on his first tour at the Clinton White...
...Our sources tell us the jokes came from the pen of Mark Katz VirginiaThomas, the Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is not, in her job as a congressional staffer, gamq a reputation for non-partisan objectivity...
...New Orleans Mayor Marc Moria1 and Seattle Mayor Norman Rice only need two a piece...
...most likely candidates include Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, who has emerged as a formidable political adviser to the White House, National Security Council Boss Sandy Berger, and Deputy Chief of Staff John Podesta Clinton would like Bob Rubin to take the job, but the Treasury Secretary loves his job and will stay put...
...But no staff member has been punished or even excoriated for setting up the embarrassing event...
...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL Love Boat Legislatures Stampede of the Arkansas The President's Jester Remember how Erskine Bowles missed home on his first tour at the Clinton White House and ultimately decided to return to North Carolina...
...Here’s an additional detail that might cause The White House to sweat some more: Marina Ein, the Washington PR whiz, is handling both the account for Middleton and The New Republic, which has emerged under editor Michael Kelly as the most anti-Chton publication in town...
...Jack Kemp ran third, but he was tied with another surprise: Elizabeth Dole...
...CBS’s Bob Schieffer offers this explanation: “Friends says it’s as much about Dole’s rehabilitation as Gingrich‘s,” to put him back in the center ring, not because he will run for president in ZOO0 but because, Schieffer says, “his wife, Elizabeth, might...
...He would have Hillary tour the country to applaud corporations that are hiring former welfare recipients who have been thrown into the work force by last year’s welfare bill...
...John Zogby, the pollster who saw, as his colleagues failed to see, that Clinton’s margin was shrinking in the week before the electionsee Nurith Aizenman’s article on The Washington Times in our last issue-took a poll this spring on how the presidential race was shaping up...
...Legislator-lobbyist romances have been flowering, writes Charles Mahtesian in Governing xnagazine, already leading to marriages not only in Maryland but in Minnesota, Colorado, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania...
...During his many years at the Post, he had never picked a Derby winner, and he must have begun to fear that his editors were beginning to think, “This is an expert...
...Mou may wonder why an item about horse racing would appear in this column...
...The White House has noticed the public relations acumen of HUD boss Andrew Cuomo...
...Why then the generous loan...
...In another she wrote, What we don’t know is how much was for sale in the Clinton pmidencyl‘ A few years back we reported a romance between a male Maryland legislator and a female lobbyist and speculated on the conflict of interest problem that might arise...
...He seems to believe his brilliance gives him license to bully colleagues he disagrees with,” veteran Washington reporter Owen Ullmann recently observed in The Washingtonian...
...That relationship, it develops, was the tip of a very large iceberg that appears to be growing everyday...
...He left the White House in February 1995 to become "an international consultant" in Indonesia and other parts of Asia...
...Mark E. Middleton is a former aide to Thomas “Mack” McLarty...
...If your eyebrows were raised by James Glassman’s enthusiastic recommendation of Philip Morris stock in his column in The Wahington Post, they may head higher when you learn that one of the funders of his PBS show, Technopolitics, is, you guessed it, Philip Morris...
...According to The Washington Times, Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell and Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell each have six...
...Everyone attending the recent White House Correspondent’s Dinner was captivated by Bill Clinton’s humor...
...Remember you read it here first...
...Who will replace Bowles...
...may retire...
...In any event, writes Mahtesian, “The emergence of the love boat legislature is creating a whole set of issues not addressed by existing ethics laws...
...We just can’t resist any opportunity to tease the Post...
...Well, although The White House denies it, he’s rumored to be homesick again and planning to leave once a budget deal is finalized this fall...
...You would think that AI Gore would have taken someone to the woodshed for allowing him to make that notorious fundraising visit to the Buddhist Temple...
...The modesty of the District’s efforts to reform is suggested by the number of guards assigned to mayors of larger cities...
...LLFormer White House Aide Offers to Testify on Lippo...
...Those interested, according to The Hi& Andrew Rice, include Mack McLarty, FEMA Director James Lee Witt, and Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater...
...Who wrote about Chelsea’s departure for college “opening up another bedroom” or the he, in reference to the DoleGingrich loan, ‘“You know, if I’d known Bob Dole was that generous I’d have invited him over for coffee...
...A District of Columbia city council committee has recommended cutting Mayor Marion Barry’s security detail from 31 policemen to 16...
...Besides, we wanted you to know that we have other interests-not just Proust, but the ponies, too...
...That sentiment could well have been Beyer’s own...
...He’ll snap,’That’s ridiculous.’ And you’ll feel too intimidated to continue...
...The main factor seems to be a dramatic increase in the number of female lobbyists, although it must also have something to do with the rise in the number of female legislators who pair off with male lobbyists...
...He has been accused of agressively trying to cash in on his White House connections," writes Schmidt,"visiting 65 times after leaving the staff and bringing potential clients to the White House Mess...
...One official who works with Summers told Ullmann, “There’s this feeling of oppression in meetings...
...Please, Lord, don’t do it to me again...
...But the second Republican choice wasGeorge W. Bush, the Texas governor, got 17 percent to Powell’s 24...
...If he does, there may be a stampede of Arkansans from the Clinton administration in Washington to the filing office in Little Rock...
...Former presidential adviser Dick Morris is urging the First Lady to make welfare reform her focus...
...You know, The Washington Monthly, always first in the realm of public affairs...
...The Sen...
...You may have missed a headline that must have sent chills down The White House spine...
...But he is also said to lack people skills...
...Dale Bumpers (D-Ark...
...In one memo she asked, accordq to The Wall ~tre&JournuPsE dward Felsenthal and David Rogers, for “examples of dishonesty and ethical lapses in the Clinton administration...
...Speaking of the Post, its horse racing expert, Andrew Beyer, recently described what the 1997 Kentucky Derby winner’s owner was thinking, as his horse was almost overtaken at the end of the race and he feared that history, in the form of the horse’s losing by a nose (which happened to lus entry last year), would repeat itself: “Here it comes again...
...It appeared last month on an inside page of The Washington Post in a story by Susan Schmidt...
...What should Hillary do with her remaining time in office...
...Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich have not been known as intimate pals...
...Middleton Seeking Immunity from Whitewater Counsel...
...The leaders were not surprising- AI Gore among the Democrats, Colin Powell among the Republicans...
...He has a press event scheduled almost every day,” says one insider...
...Lawrence Summers, who is Bob Rubin’s deputy, is one of the intellectual stars of the administration’s economic team...
Vol. 29 • June 1997 • No. 6
