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...blunt style that particularly annoyed White House chief of staff John Sununu, Seidman declared, "I talked to them about getting out of here so they could put in somebody of their own. The next thing I knew, I heard the White House leaking that the President was trying to force me out." Fearing for the FDIC's independence, Seidman decided to stay. Such frank talk may have been the bane of Bush, but it could be the stuff of stardom. Starting this week, Seidman will serve as correspondent and commentator for CNBC, the financially focused cable channel...
Cynical reporters tired of the bickering and half-truths which make up politics eat this stuff up. Bob Kerrey would never hire John Sununu, turn a blind eye to CIA shenanigans or pick an unknown for the Supreme Court. J. Robert Kerrey would not be president of the United States, they reason. He would be president for the United States...
WILLIAM REILLY's unhappy too, and may jump ship. The Environmental Protection Agency director has been telling friends that he is tired of trying to do the right thing on clean air and other issues only to be stymied by more powerful Administration free-marketeers like John Sununu and Richard Darman. President Bush admires Reilly's grit. But Reilly complains that he is becoming the President's environmental poster child and may have to leave to preserve his integrity...
Before going that far, a team that included National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and chief of staff John Sununu waged a last-minute telephone campaign out of Scowcroft's offices that went on into the evening of Sept. 11. They were trying both to seek a compromise and to take the measure of the Israel lobby's pre-emptive strike. The next morning Bush made a final pitch in the Oval Office to Mayer Mitchell, a leader of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the largest pro-Israeli lobby. When Mitchell proved to be noncommittal, Bush decided to move...
...election season approaches, senior Republicans are worried that White House chief of staff John Sununu is burrowing deeper into his bunker, refusing to listen much to anyone except budgetmeister Richard Darman and domestic policy chief Roger Porter. Longtime Bush confidants are miffed at Sununu's recent practice of cutting them off at the pass and having a junior aide return their calls, dictate marching orders to them, and even respond to their letters to Bush. So how is a honcho to convey his thoughts to the President? Last month Bush himself opened up a new back channel, giving...