Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY Susan Threadgill Susan Carpenter-McMillan, the new spokesperson for Paula Corbin Jones, quickly captured the press’s attention when she said, “I love Mary Matalin. 1...
...Ovitz had told the executive, with obvious embarrasment, that the star was now insisting that the clown character have sex with a midget...
...Rubin is blamed for the initially awkward handling of the revelations about Albright’s Jewish ancestry...
...It seems that, to make up for the loss of revenue, local taxes are having to be raised in order to preserve popular public services...
...Other millionaires include Janet Yellen, Richard Riley, Andrew Cuomo, Charlene Barshefsky, William Daley, Bruce Babbitt, and Madeleine Albright...
...Insiders say its her press person, Jamie Rubin...
...Washington can seem crazy at times, but we’re comforted by the knowledge that it’s always crazier out in Hollywood...
...At that time 25 percent of the Bush ambassadors were political...
...a former secretary of the treasury, Lloyd Bentsen...
...He has AI Gore’s support...
...Joseph Kennedy, doesn’t offer the juicy family scandals that some of us naughtyminded had hoped for...
...American companies, eager to share in the potential loot, are lobbying to have the restrictions lifted so they can get government loans and other help...
...The secret of Marion Barry’s performance as mayor of Washington may have been revealed by Dwight Cropp, a former Barry assistant who is now a professor of public administration at George Washington University...
...Most White House veterans say that even a closet in the West Wing, which is where the Oval Office is located, is considered preferable to a suite of offices anywhere else...
...They have enlisted an AllStar team of heavy-lifters including a former secretary of state, James A. Baker 111...
...In fact, he played a trial round with Bowles and the president in late July...
...It does provide some facts we didn’t know about the practice of annulment in the Catholic Church...
...But such is the tension between the new Democrats serving Bill Clinton and AI Gore, and the old Democrats around Gephardt, Gore’s most likely opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000, that, according to The Hilts Eamon Javers, a Gephardt staffer angered by aggressive White House lobbying on a spending bill opposed by the House Minority Leader, yanked out the plugs of the two phones...
...Raines plays golf so he’ll also be able to replace Bowles as the president’s partner...
...Scowcroft for example was paid $100,000 for his efforts in 1996 alone, according to David B. Ottaway and Dan Morgan of The Washington Post, who also note: ‘Adding a sense of intrigue, former Maj...
...Christine Todd Whitman for cutting taxes, are having second thoughts...
...We, of course, assume that these luminaries are motivated primarily by their continuing desire to advance American interests abroad...
...I think that loyalty and the ability to function as a team player outweighs competence...
...And Clinton is said to like the idea of being the first president to appoint a black chief of staff...
...The smart betting is on Sandra Day O’connor, who has had health problems in recent years...
...He proposed that political appointees be limited to 15 percent of the total number of ambassadors...
...CarpenterMcMillan is described by Frank J. Murray of The Washington Times as “a Los Angeles legend for her crusades, ranging from her advocacy of castration of child molesters to preventing singles and homosexuals from adopting children...
...Robert Rubin, Erskine Bowles, and Franklin Raines are the wealthiest...
...Who's Who BY Susan Threadgill Susan Carpenter-McMillan, the new spokesperson for Paula Corbin Jones, quickly captured the press’s attention when she said, “I love Mary Matalin...
...She says the United States is the “Nevada of the annulment world” with threefourths of all Catholic annulments granted to Americans...
...Richard Secord, chief covert operative for Oliver L. North in the IranContra scandal, reportedly has been sighted in Baku.’’ Bill Clinton may have more millionaires in his administration than any president since Calvin Coolidge...
...a former secretary of defense, Richard Cheney...
...Consider the piece of exotica from lala-land recounted not by some irreputable gossip, but by Bernard Weinraub of The Nevt York Times: % studio executive told me of a phone call he had just had from [Michael Ovitz] about a circus filmwhich was mercifully never made-starring Dustin Hoffman as a clown...
...restrictions on aid to Azerbaijan...
...If you had to guess the hottest foreign policy issue in Washington, we bet you wouldn’t choose the lifting of US...
...Two telephones outside the offices of House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt have been traditionally reserved for the use of White House lobbyists...
...But maybe it’s not...
...They were enacted by Congress in 1992 to protest Azerbaijan’s blockade of Armenia...
...The reason they’re a hot issue today is a $4 trillion oil field that is suspected to lie under the Caspian Sea region...
...He must be great in bed...
...Who among her staff members has the most influence on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...
...New Jersey voters, and Republicans around the country, who first hailed Gov...
...Shattered Faith by Sheila Rauch Kennedy, the former wife of Rep...
...Speaking of Bowles, his chief of staff, Victoria Radd, is being moved from her small office in the West Wing to far grander quarters in the Old Executive Office Building...
...Cropp says about the mayor’s standards of personnel selection: "I don’t think that competence at this point in the game is a determining factor...
...You might not even have known, as we have to confess we did not, that such restrictions existed...
...Today, the figure for the Clinton-Gore administration is 31 percent...
...Money may also have a tad to do with it...
...Chris Conway and Josh Goldstein of The Philadelphia Inquirer have dug up a speech AI Gore delivered on the Senate floor in 1989 denouncing the “disgrace” of the Bush administration’s awarding of ambassadorships as political plums...
...But doesn’t that mean that he should also get the credit for at least some of Albright’s many public relations successes...
...Sounds like a move up, doesn’t it...
...The mediators who have been able to engineer the occasional truces in the feud between Senators Fred Thompson and John Glenn are their colleagues Arlen Spector and Carl Levin, who bridge their own political differences with a partnership on the squash court...
...Her replacement could be George Mitchell or Mario Cuomo...
...Did you know it costs $300 to file for an annulment but $850 to file an appeal to resanctify your marriage...
...If Raines takes the reins, life on the links should prove particularly chummy in coming months since Raines (like so many people in this town) reportedly owes a debt of gratitude for professional advice to the president’s other favorite golfing buddy, superlawyer Vernon Jordan...
...and two former national security advisers, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft...
...Bruce Babbitt, who was on the president’s short list, may have removed himself by infuriating Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, with what Hatch regarded as the Interior Department’s grab of the Escalante-Staircase National Monument in Utah...
...1 don’t know what she sees in [James Carville...
...Who will be the next Supreme Court Justice to resign...
...a former White House chief of staff, John Sununu...
...OMB Director Frank Raines is said to be at the top of Bill Clinton’s list of potential successors to Erskine Bowles as White House Chief of Staff...
Vol. 29 • September 1997 • No. 9
