Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL A new height in chutzpah may have been attained by a Washington journalist who, on a recent television talk show, nodded in solemn agreement with a prominent...
...The reason: The Hilts revelations about the illegal contributions received by Rep...
...It just so happens that the journalist and the prominent columnist were rumored to have carried on a torrid, adulterous affair a few years back...
...Do they think they’ve gotten an indulgence from William Cohen...
...Others say the author was John Kornblum, now assistant secretary of state and ambassador-designate to Germany...
...Other stories by Roll Call and The Washington Post‘s Charles R. Babcock confirm that Burton may, to put it as gently as we can, not be the ideal choice to lead the tainted-money investigation...
...He keeps a shotgun in a closet...
...Even more fascinating is the decor of his office, which features, according to Drew, “pictures of Norquist carrying guns-an AK-47 in Afghanistan and an assault rifle in Angola...
...Alexis Herman made a living out of playing the race card” was just one of the interesting quotes The New YorkerS Peter J. Beyer elicited from Ron Brown’s close friend, Nolanda Hill...
...The authorship of that line is now in dispute...
...Of Vernon Jordan, Ms...
...Sandy Berger, whose job as national security adviser makes him her natural rival, is said to be biding his time waiting for her to make mistakes...
...Former White House staffer Mark Middleton assures us that he has “no information about criminal misconduct by others,” meaning that the White House has no need to be nervous-as we suggested in last month’s ‘W’hoS Who”-about his agreement to “cooperate” with Ken Starr...
...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL A new height in chutzpah may have been attained by a Washington journalist who, on a recent television talk show, nodded in solemn agreement with a prominent columnist’s denunciation of Clinton’s moral character...
...Hill observed, “His rainbow coalition starts and stops with Vernon Jordan...
...After Kennedy left, Johnson settled back to listen to a secret tape recording he thought This magazine cannot be counted among the fans of Ronald Reagan’s presidency...
...Last year the office was the scene of a fundraiser Norquist gave for his pal Randy Tate, who was in a losing race for re-election to Congress and is now slated to replace Ralph Reed as head of the Christian Coalition...
...His name, and I love it, is Grover Norquist...
...when administration officials are trying to persuade Jesse Helms to be reasonable, we’re told they rely on a retired admiral named James g‘Bud” Nance, who is a top Helms aide, to talk sense to the senator...
...One example was that great speech in Normandy...
...Dan Burton, who is in charge of the House investigation into naughty money from abroad...
...Elizabeth Drew’s Whatever It Takes tells about the enormous influence wielded by someone most of us never heard of...
...A lot of attention is being paid to The Hill, a new rival to Roll Call in covering Congress...
...Reagan White House insiders credit Peter M. Robinson, one of Reagan’s writers at the time...
...The Washington Post‘s AI Kamen, says that white House officials who worked on the speech have told him, “The State Department kept arguing that Helmut Kohl would be embarrassed, that it was crude anticommunism,” a line that we must say is even more credible than Paula’s about Hillary...
...He did backroom dealmaking.’’ Of Brown’s death, she said, “It spared him a great deal of humiliation...
...He might have gone to jail, and he knew that...
...They’re saying Madeleine Albright may be the strongest secretary of state since Henry Kissinger...
...But now and then we loved him...
...When Robert Kennedy decided to run for president in 1968, Lyndon Johnson summoned him to the White House for a tongue lashing...
...Of her late friend she observed, ‘You’ve got to remember Ron Brown had been, in every sense of the word, a bagman as an attorney...
...Another was his memorable challenge in Berlin: “Mr...
...If you’re a woman who has ever tried to fend off the advances of an adulterous male-or even if you’re an adulterous male who remembers how nice ladies tried to tactfully evade your clutchesyou will be haunted by what Paula Jones says about her attempt to deflect our president’s alleged approach: “I was trying to talk to him about Hillary...
...Gorbachev, tear down this wall...
...One may have come in Holland, when she infuriated some of Bill Clinton’s pals by stealing headlines from her bpss with a dramatic speech about Bosnian war criminals on the same day the president was trying to get press attention visiting the same country...
Vol. 29 • July 1997 • No. 7
