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...children-Valerie, 19, Marcy, 15, and Nicholas, 8. Ever since Mrs. Rumsfeld complained that he was dropping $100 a month in the White House mess, Rumsfeld has been lunching on a brown-bagged sandwich brought from home. He has no substantial personal wealth, and Mrs. Rumsfeld works in a Georgetown dress shop, the Dorcas Hardin shop, to help with family finances. One advantage of the new Cabinet post is that he will get a raise, from $42,500 to $60,000 a year...
...errand boy within the White House, Scowcroft is hardly an automaton. He is an intellectual soldier with a superb background in international relations. A West Point graduate, Scowcroft won a master's degree and a Ph.D. in his specialty at Columbia University, also studied at Lafayette, Georgetown's School of Languages and Linguistics, the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College. Fluent in Russian and Serbian, Scowcroft taught Russian history at West Point during the '50s and later served as assistant air attache at the American embassy in Belgrade. Scowcroft and his wife Marian...
...typically refuses to run with the pack. While much of the press was still awed by George McGovern's primary victories early in 1972, Reeves was already debunking his fellow liberal. Says New York Editor Clay Felker: "Dick says things that may not go down well on the Georgetown circuit...
Died. John J. Rooney, 71, once one of the ruling powers in Congress as chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for the State, Commerce and Justice Departments and the Judiciary; after surgery at Georgetown University Hospital; in Washington, D.C. The blunt-speaking, tightfisted Brooklynite, who served in the House of Representatives from 1944 until his retirement last year, was famous for his sardonic attacks on State Department expense accounts, which he dubbed "booze allowances for cookie pushers...
...tell you until I see how big the task is. Most of the tapes are not as audible* as the one you played at that cocktail party." The reference was to Dobrovir's ill-advised playing of a portion of a subpoenaed Nixon tape at a Georgetown party in December...