Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL It used to be that journalists did not write about the parties they went to. The occasions would be regarded as social, off-therecord but nevertheless...
...and Z.B., V.J...
...doh n n y”) A p p I e has described in The New York Times a dinner he attended at the British Embassy, Tina Brown has given the inside skinny on a White House dinner to the readers of The New Yorker, and William Safire has used the Times oped page to recount his conversations at a New Year’s party at the house of Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn...
...She now recalls that, when she was leaving that Little Rock hotel room, Bill Clinton stopped her from opening the door...
...Veteran Washingtonians tell us that when people are preparing to enter the Oval Office, their thoughts are so preoccupied with what they’re going to say and how they look that they don’t really see anything or anyone, not even a damsel in distress...
...It depicts, according to The Washington Post, “whipwielding band members lounging around an S&M dungeon surrounded by topless wenches with rouged nipples...
...The list includes prominent editors, bureau chiefs, and columnists...
...Oh, I think I can probably fake it,” Pataki answered...
...and E.T., R.C...
...It develops, according to Stephen Labaton of The New York Times, that Brian Ross of “ABC News” took a Cameroon businessman named Laurent Yene to the Justice Department and introduced him to an official there so Yene could make charges against Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman...
...Dick Armey supporters were not exactly saddened by Bill Paxon’s decision to retire...
...When George Stephanopolous mentioned that the White House might retaliate against journalists who have been a tad severe about Bill Clinton’s sexual adventures by leaking news of adulteries involving members of the press corps, Maureen Dowd expressed outrage at the possibility in her column in The New York Times, outrage that was shared by many members of the media community...
...Lloyd Bentsen and Leon Panetta are standing there waiting to go in...
...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL It used to be that journalists did not write about the parties they went to...
...The only sign of emotion we saw was when it was reported on Friday that one of the gifts her husband gave to Lewinsky was the Walt Whitman book, Leaves of Grass...
...In the last month or so R.W...
...An attractive woman emerges from the Oval Office, lipstick smeared, her blouse untucked, a distraught look on her face...
...He appears on the cover of the group’s album “Decline and Fall,” which was released a few months ago...
...For discretion’s sake, we’ll only give initials: C.B...
...But, as they say, we’ve come a long way, baby...
...She first heard about it from news clips and Roberta Green” (her deputy chief of staff) just before leaving the White House to catch a train to Baltimore where she was to speak at Goucher College...
...In most cases the indiscretions were accompanied by a fib or two, and sometimes more, the memory of which, we hope, will encourage the participants in the merciful forgiveness of sinners...
...She refused to take three phone calls from the president, according to the Spectator‘s informant...
...She was described as “chilly and withdrawn...
...and B.B., M.G.and RG., G.W...
...Murdoch is said not to have been pleased by Patten’s criticism of the government of China, where the media magnate wants to do business...
...Paula Jones has become a pioneer in the new science of recovered memory...
...and M.J., 6.6...
...Then after a pause, according to The New York Times, he said, “Since we’re on the record, that was a joke...
...After New York Gov...
...Couldn’t this be evidence that Kathleen Willey is lying...
...Several leading authors including Doris Lessing and Faye Weldman are threatening to leave HarperCollins, according to Agence France Presse, if it is confirmed that its owner Rupert Murdoch tried to censor a book by the former governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten...
...Even if he just knew them both, you can bet your boots he will be a featured player in White House conspiracy theories...
...The memory of this event, and of several others that help make her legal case, had, The Washington Post points out, escaped her until recently...
...Speaking of Tony Snow, we hear it was he who introduced Linda Tripp to Lucianne Goldberg...
...In just a few minutes my colleagues here were able to come up with a list of notable illicit relationships that have been rumored since this magazine was founded in 1969...
...George Pataki flubbed some questions about the McCainFeingold campaign finance reform bill at a press luncheon hosted by The Christian Science Monitor‘s Godfrey S pe r I in g J r., Sperling asked, “If you decide to run for president, aren’t you going to have to spend a little time catching up on some of the national issues...
...In one case, the only journalist involved was the victimized husband, but in all the others at least one party was a journalist...
...Our only source is the American Spectator, which has never gone out of its way to be kind to the president and his wife...
...Other luminaries of the Murdoch empire who have yet to speak up include William Kristol and Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard, John Podhoretz of the New York Post, Brit Hume and Tony Snow of Fox News...
...Ted Widmer, the director of speech writing for the National Security Council, has also been known as Lord Rockingham, a sometime member of the rock and roll band The Upper Crust...
...ABC may be trying to get into the act...
...But for what it’s worth, here’s what they say...
...and J.G...
...She looked shaken and said, ‘He gave me the same book on our second date...
...and S.Q.,J.A...
...and E.W., F.B...
...Remember when CBS was accused of helping arrange an invasion of Haiti so it could be first with the news...
...and K.M., L.D...
...The occasions would be regarded as social, off-therecord but nevertheless useful for leads and other background information...
...He’s a guy who would lie to your face and stab you in the back.’’ How did Hillary Clinton react to the first news about Bill and Monica...
...and L.W., B.W...
...For good reason...
...and V.C., M.D...
...Then Ross broke the news of the charges on ABC...
...We don’t really know for sure...
...and Z.S., K.H...
...Wouldn’t they have noticed...
...We’re doing our little victory dance,” one told The Washington Post...
Vol. 30 • April 1998 • No. 4
