Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who? By Susan Threadgill Although the Clinton administration has at times-take the case of its attempts to fill the job of attorney general-seemed almost embarrassingly eager to...
...Their anxieties may be relieved, however, by the news that the lawyer Mrs...
...Murdoch has hired to represent her, Daniel Jaffe, is described as “not a png-ho litigator” and has, according to The Washington Post‘s Paul Farhi, “a reputation for settling his cases out of the public eye...
...You’ve heard about the tie that Monica Lewinsky gave Bill Clinton...
...The next time the Postal Service asks for another rate increase someone should inquire as to whether the agency’s cost control procedures are all that they might be...
...Among the beneficiaries: Dick Armey, Tom DeLay, and Trent Lott, who appears to have been treated to 12 of the flights...
...They also got about four times as many trips on corporate jets controlled by the tobacco people-84 to at most 23 in one recent period...
...By Susan Threadgill Although the Clinton administration has at times-take the case of its attempts to fill the job of attorney general-seemed almost embarrassingly eager to place women in top jobs, its dedication has been less evident in selecting members of the White House staff...
...Because California is a community property state, such luminaries of the Murdoch media empire as Fred Barnes, William Kristol, and John Podhoretz are said to be just a tad nervous about the turmoil the division of assets Anna Wlurdoch’s divorce might bring to the Fox TV network, The New York Post, the Weekb Standard, and the many other organizations her husband, Rupert, controls...
...During Anita Hill’s testimony in the hearings on Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court, Richard Nixon told his biographer, Monica Crowley: “If I were [George] Bush and Thomas is defeated and I needed to choose another nominee, I‘d stick it to all of them and go for a white woman reactionary cardcarrying right-to-lifer...
...How do the star Watergate reporters think Clinton’s troubles compare with the scandal that made them famous...
...If you’ve wondered who is the source of those leaks from Ken Starr’s office to such Starr favorites as ABC‘s Jackie Judd, Newmeek’s Michael Isikoff, and The Washington Post‘s Susan Schmidt, and Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton of The New Erk Times, the consensus seems to be that it was Starr’s deputy Jackie Bennett Jr., and that he was not acting without his boss’s knowledge...
...It reveals at least one similarity in the way Clinton and Kennedy handled these matters...
...They are not comforted by the disturbing precedent offered by the divorce of Gloria and Herbert Haft that led to the dissolution of that family’s financial empire...
...For that he gets a corporate jet all to himself to fly wherever he wants whenever he wants...
...Did Postmaster General Marvin Runyon crack down...
...Must reading for all of us who love to dish dirt, it is about John Kennedy’s last mistress, the late Mary Meyer, who was the sister-inlaw of Ben Bradlee and the former wife of CIA insider Cord Meyer...
...All this from a bookstore from which Lewinsky may have bought a book or two...
...Bob Woodward says it’s “not something of that magnitude...
...Number four was “Never a waiting line at the women’s bathroom...
...Does he get frequent flyer miles...
...No, he decided to spend $82,500 on his own farewell parties, one of which, according to The Wnshington Post‘s Bill McAllister, “featured a band, cocktails, and dinner with two entrees and wine...
...Nina Burleigh, who recently confessed that her interest in Bill Clinton had reached a point where “I had been quite willing to let myself be ravished . . . should he have but asked,” has a book coming out this fall...
...He’s Blair Howard, a Virginia attorney who specializes in defending damsels in legal distress...
...An Atlanta postmaster spent $4S,OOO of Postal Service money on his swearing in ceremony...
...Bernstein adds, “Jt’s as if you have a kind of Nuremberg prosecution for war crimes and you end up with a kind of jaywaking offense...
...This is made legal under our somewhat less than stringent election laws by the politician’s payment of the equivalent of a first class fare on a regularly scheduled commercial plane...
...On the first night of the romance, Kennedy got Meyer into the White House this way: “That night, October 3, at 7:40 p.m., according to the gate log, ‘Mary Meyers’ had an appointment with Evelyn Lincoln, the president’s personal secretary, and was authorized by Lincoln to enter the White House...
...Carswell was, to put it as gently as possible, not one of the great legal minds of his era...
...We are, of course, not so cynical as to suspect the confession had any relation to the book, but it is true that the book deals with a president’s sex life...
...SpeakLng of Ken Starr, Timothy Noah, before his untimely departure from US...
...News & World Report in the wake of the James Fallows firing, told the readers of his ‘Whispers” column about the details of a Starr subpoena-the one to Kramerbooks for documentation about Monica Lewinsky’s possible gift books for Bill Clinton...
...He immediately named G. Harrold Carswell to the court...
...Sylvia Mathews, who is going from the White House to the OMB, recently hinted at the problem in a memo she wrote on the “advantages” of working at the White House...
...Here are excepts from the subpoena’s two-page definition of documents: “summaries or records of personal conversations, meetings, or interviews, logs, summaries or records of telephone conversations and/or telefax communications, diaries, forecasts, statistical statements . . . voicemail recordings, and all other written, printed or recorded or photographic matter or sound reproductions, however produced or reproduced...
...He got Susan Cummings off with 60 days for shooting and killing her man and Lorena Bobbitt off completely for surgically removing the penis of hers...
...The Republicans get more than four times as much campaign money from the tobacco industry as the Democrats...
...But did you know she also presented one to Vernon Jordan...
...This is, of course, exactly what Nixon did when the Senate rejected Clement Haynesworth in 1970...
...That would drive them crazy...
...Just in case Hillary Clinton ever loses patience with the leader of the free world and does something the law might frown on, we have the lawyer to defend her...
Vol. 30 • September 1998 • No. 9
