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...Secretary of the Treasury, the administration has not yet recovered from the crippling embarassment of Barbara Honegger's resignation from her post as Special Adviser on Women's Issues. The attitude of the White House towards Honegger was adequately summed up in Larry Speakes' reference to her as a "Munchkin" whose only function was to give children Easter Eggs on the White House Lawn--a function which Speakes was apparently not aware that Second Lady Barbara Bush has fulfilled in recent years...
...Justice Department spokesman responded by asserting that Honegger was merely "a low-level Munchkin." White House Press Spokesman Larry Speakes attempted an ungallant rabbit punch of his own. He told reporters: "The last time I saw her she was the Easter Bunny at the White House Easter egg roll...
...Some Munchkin. Some Easter Bunny...
...Easter Bunny at the White House egg roll? Was she a Munchkin? If so, did that mean the President was the Wizard of Oz? Was his daughter, who was brought into the fray, in any way like a 600-pound gorilla? And where was Ursula Meese? Such was the level of debate last week over the Administration's approach to ending discrimination against women...
Honegger came out swinging at a press conference called by her new-found allies in the women's movement. "This is the Munchkin with the Wizard of Oz," she said, holding up a dignified picture of herself at the White House with the President. And to set the record straight, she said that Ursula Meese, wife of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, had been the Easter Bunny at the egg roll. So she had; Honegger's turn as a bunny was in a staff picture taken to cheer Press Secretary James Brady after he was shot during the assassination...