Money Doesdt Talk in Washington
Herwitz, Michael
Who’s Who in the Carter Administration The most powerful people in the White House second rank are Landon Butler, Hamilton Jordan’s deputy, David Aaron on the national security side, and Bert Carp...
...Defense Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management-Gary D. Penisten resigned and is being replaced by George A. Peapples, a G.M...
...Like most top officials at DOT, he seems to have been chosen because of his ignorance of the field of transportation...
...He was executive director of the Colorado Department of Social Services and a health economist at the National Institute for Mental Health...
...National Labor Relations Board Member-John H. Fanning, a Rhode Islander who will begin a 4th five-year term on this board, will become chairman of the NLRB upon confirmation...
...Heine’s appointment to this new position, created by the recent strip-mine bill, was backed by Secretary of Interior Cecil Andrus and opposed by the National Coal Association...
...His most recent job was as deputy U.S...
...COMMERCE ~ ~~ Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information-Henry Geller, former FCC general counsel, is a Washington, D.C...
...Robert D. Thorne, Schlesinger’s new assistant secretary for energy technology, is regarded as pro-nuclear by environmentalists who are familiar with his record at the AEC and ERDA...
...Also a barrier was his consulting work, which was viewed as a conflict-of-interest with his position on the board...
...is a lawyer who has been city attorney for Belzoni, MissisHouse and was director of the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television...
...Carter is considerably fonder of her than he is of her father...
...He was also supervisor of Rail Public Services for the Port Authority and a budget priority analyst for the House Budget Committee...
...I NTE R IOR Director-Federal Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement-Walter N. Heine, a “tough-minded” environmental standards enforcer, was the deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources...
...2 men is said to be Rex Granum in Jody Powell’s office...
...Latimer was a lawyer with the GSA for 20 years and an assistant general counsel for general law at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...If there’s a Georgia mafia at the White House, there’s an Idaho one over at the Interior Department, where there are ten Idahoans in top jobs under the state’s former governor, Cecil Andrus...
...and country director for Southern African affairs at the State Department...
...Who’s Who in the Carter Administration The most powerful people in the White House second rank are Landon Butler, Hamilton Jordan’s deputy, David Aaron on the national security side, and Bert Carp and David Rubenstein on the domestic...
...In our October issue, we said Chester Davenport was director of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation...
...Member-Sharon Percy Rockefeller, wife of West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller and daughter of the senior senator from Illinois, was another Carter campaigner...
...National Credit Union Administration Ad minis t r a t o r - Laurence is described as a rare crusading consumerist among the regulators...
...Less powerful, but nevertheless the strongest presences in their respective offices, are Jane Frank under Jack Watson and Michael Cardozo and Margaret McKenna in the counsel’s office...
...Interior Assistant Secretary-Robert H. Mendelsohn’s nomination was withdrawn after the California Fair Political Practices Commission sued him, charging that he had received improper campaign contributions from a real estate company during his unsuccessful 1974 campaign for California state controller...
...Deputy Director, National Institute of EducationMichael Timpane of Arlington, Virginia, was director of the Center for Educational Finance and Governance...
...The least regarded of the No...
...Press Aide-Bill Drummond finished his tour as a White House fellow and returned to the Los Angeles Times...
...AGRICULTURE Assistant Secretary for Administration-Joan Wallace is a black woman who was director of the School of Social Work at Western Michigan University...
...He has been on the Bank Commission of Connecticut and the Hartford National Corporation, and before that was assistant deputy regional administrator for the Comptroller of the Currency...
...STATE Ambassador to Guinea-Oliver S. Crosby of Tacoma, Washington has been in the foreign service since he served as consular-political officer in Athens in 1947...
...Export-Import Bank of US., Board of Directors Member-Donald E. Stingel was vicechairman of the Commerce Department’s Committee on East-West Trade and a member of the Commerce Department’s Advisory Committee on Multilateral Trade Negotiations...
...He also wrote an article for Jet attacking Powell and Carter as anti-black...
...We had it right in May when we said he was Assistant Secretary for Policy, Plans, and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Transportation...
...He is still there and is generally regarded as incompetent...
...For Townsend, a former Atlanta Constitution reporter who is only 25, this promotion means a salary increase from approximately $16,000 to $40,000 a year...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission Member-Kent F. Hansen’s nomination by Resident Carter for a seat in this agency was rejected by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee...
...Agricu Itu re Assistant Secretary-Robert H. Meyer resigned after receiving sharp criticism for seeking special federal treatment for the Imperial Valley landowners in California, where he has substantial landholdings...
...We were wrong...
...General Services Administration General Counsel-AUie B. Latimer of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania is the first black as well as the first woman to reach this position and to achieve the GS-18 level in the GSA...
...Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States...
...Member-Irby Turner, Jr...
...Zagoria, who was recommended to the president by five liberal Republican senators, was probably selected for his sympathy towards public financing of elections, which is favored by Carter...
...He served in Hong Kong and in Ottawa, and was deputy regional director for Latin America in the Peace Corps...
...He has been a member of the board since 1957, when he was appointed by President Eisenhower...
...executive...
...He was president of Pulman-Swindell Corporation until he resigned earlier this year...
...TREASURY Director of the Mint-Stella B. Hackel is a city attorney in Rutland, Vermont who ran, unsuccessfully, for the governorship of Vermont...
...He has been a political officer in Tabriz and in Nicosia...
...Postal Service, where he will be Assistant Postmaster General for communications, a job he has wanted...
...Hansen, who is a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT and a consultant for major nuclear power plant manufacturers, was rejected because of a “noticeable absence of thought, background and depth on such questions as safety and waste disposa3,”according to Senator Gary Hart of the committee...
...Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs-Harold W. Chase is a former Marine and professor at Princeton University and the University of Minnesota...
...HEW Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration-Gerald L. Klerman was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard and director of the Stanley Cobb Laboratories in Research and Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...A senior Brookings fellow, Timpane has been on the staff of the Rand Corporation and was Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of Education Planning at HEW...
...Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering-William J. Perry will continue in this redesignated position, which was originally called Director of Defense Research and Engineering...
...She is being replaced by her deputy, Pat Bauer, former editor for the Ann Arbor News in Michigan...
...Hackel, a Democrat, will succeed Mary T. Brooks, who has resigned...
...He has been ambassador to Bangladesh since 1976...
...Before this appointment, he was Deputy Under Secretary of Transportation...
...50 DEFENSE Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management-George A. Peapples was a GM executive from Dexter, Michigan...
...Appointments Since Our Last Issue: THE WHITE HOUSE Associate Press Secretary-Claudia Townsend has been the editor of the White House News Summary before stepping up into the position vacated by Walter Duka, who has resigned...
...an economic officer in Berlin...
...Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Board of Directors Member-William Isaac, who was vicepresident and general counsel for First Kentucky National Corporation and its subsidiary, First National Bank of Louisville, will fill one of the Republican vacancies on this board...
...Ambassador to Indonesia-Edward E. Masters began his foreign service career as a military liaison officer in Frankfurt...
...Agencies and Commissions Council on Environmental Quality Member-Marion Edey’s nomination was “indefinitely postponed” by the Senate Public Works Committee...
...He is a major general in the Marine Corps Reserve and has been a member of the Reserve Forces Policy Board...
...He is widely regarded as the most capable person on the Adams team...
...In the past, these ratings have caused embarrassment and occasional defeat to congressmen...
...Federal Election Committee Member-Samuel D. Zagoria has been a reporter with The Washington Post, president of the Washington Newspaper Guild, and administrative assistant to Senator Clifford Case...
...Director, Health Resources Administration -Henry A. Foley was appointed by Secretary Califano to run programs that include vocational rehabilitation, services for the aging, and medical assistance...
...She is a board member of WETA-TV, a public television station in Washington...
...AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Board of Directors Member-Gillian Martin Sorensen, wife of Ted Sorensen, was an early Carter supporter who organized New York City artists for him during the presidential campaign and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention...
...His appointment by Carter to a Republican slot on this commission has infuriated House Minority Leader John Rhodes, and Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, who had a more conservative Republican in mind for the post...
...deputy chief of mission in Bamako and in Laos...
...She was previously deputy executive director of programs for the National Urban League...
...Ambassador to Paraguay-Robert E. White is from Melrose Heights, Massachusetts and has been in the foreign service for 25 years...
...Since then, he has been political officer in Karachi and in Madras, Chief of the IndonesiaMalaya Branch of the Office of Intelligence Research Analysis for Asia, officer in charge of Thailand affairs at the State Department, counselor for political affairs in Djakarta...
...Secretary Schlesinger is distressed as he had backed Hansen wholeheartedly and depended on Hansen’s help in implementing rapid nuclear energy development...
...The cause seems to be her involvement with the League of Conservation Voters which publishes a rating of members of Congress on conservation issues...
...communications veteran who has worked with the Rand Corporation and was chairman of the board of Citizens’ Communications Center...
...In this new position, created when President Carter’s reorganization plan axed the Office of Telecommunications Policy and consolidated it with the Department of Commerce, Geller advises Juanita Kreps and Carter on communications matters...
...C o n n ell RESIGNATIONS AND REJECTED/WITHDRAWN NOMINATIONS White House Associate Press Secretary-Walter K. Duka will return to his former employer, the U.S...
...TRANSPORTATION Assistant Secretary-Mortimer L. Downey, who will have primary responsibility for budget and programs, was principal transportation planner for the planning and development department of the Port Authority...
Vol. 9 • December 1977 • No. 10
