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Return-path: <Joehillings@aol.com< From: Joehillings@aol.com Full-name: Joehillings Message-ID: <cd.6ff0627.283fae65@aol.com< Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 08:47:33 EDT Subject: Diplomatic Nominations Announced In Today's Washington Post To: Lora.Sullivan@enron.com CC: Peter.Weidler@enron.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part2_5f.158b51e8.283fae65_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10520 Lora: I thought several of the reports in the Kamen column in today's Washington Post were of interest based on our past contacts which you may want to share with Enron officials concerned with those areas. (1) Speculation that Otto Reich's nomination for Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere is in trouble with Senator Joe Biden taking over as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Further speculation that the Bush Administration may be forced to withdraw the nomination and consider replacing it with Crisencio Arcos, a former US ambassador now working for AT and T out of Miami. I have met him several times and chaired a BCIU panel with him as a participant; Anne Patterson, current US ambassador to Colombia who I also know; and, I would add the possibility of Donna Hrinak who I know is held in high regard. Doubt that decision will be made for several more weeks. Further in the column in the information the Nancy Brinker of Dallas (I don't know her) is to be nominated as US ambassador to Hungary. Enron has a business in Hungary and has been trying to expand interests; our old friend Doug Hartwick to be nominated for Laos (you will recall that we tried to help him last year to get Senator Bob Smith to remove a "hold" over the Senator's upset with the State Department not being aggressive enough about the MIA issue); and, my longtime friend Tom Hubbard, former US ambassador to the Philippines to be US ambassador to South Korea (Enron's Darrell Kinder may be interested to know this information). Can you kindly check the White House political office to see if they have a contact number for Richard "Rich" Bond? Ken Mehlman's office may be able to tell you. Rich did work for us and could possibly be helpful to me in pushing my own interests. He's been in the papers and on the tube several times commenting on the Jim Jeffords switch. We're leaving for our Delaware house about midday today and plan to return on Sunday or Monday. Thanks. Joe
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