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BY RALPH ALSWANG-THE WHITE HOUSE
Cabinet straw boss Harold Ickes and his trail boss at the Intermountain Equestrian Center in Billings, Mont., June 1.By Lloyd Grove
Washington Post Staff Writer
eflecting on his glory days as an
itinerant cowboy, Harold Ickes
seems to glow with pleasure-
and it's not just the French
Merlot-as he descants on the rites of the
spring roundup.
"The cowboys I worked for believed in
doing it the old-fashioned way," Ickes says
over a late supper at Kinkead's, his favorite
restaurant near the White House because
he can order hot food there after 11 p.m.
"We roped them by their two back feet,
dragged them up to a branding fire while
one guy would sit on the cMves., their:
vwouid castrate them, a third guy would
shoot them with penicillin, another guy
would earmark them and somebody else
would brand them and let them go."
Deputy White House Chief of Staff Ickes
(pronounced ICK-ees) is President Clinton's
top political wrangler and notably unreluc-
tant to use a painful prod-erupting occa-
sionally in what one senior official calls "a
Howard Beale-like rage" (as in the mad-as-
hell anchor in the movie "Network"). So his
words take on an alarming metaphoricalquality, especially when he gleefully de-
scribes a rodeo event the name of which he
pronounces as "dally." It's an Americaniza-
tion of the Spanish term "dale una vuelta,"
meaning "give a turn."
"A guy gets an 80-foot-long rope and
takes two or three turns around the saddle
horn," Ickes explains in a voice that is arch
and dryly Manhattan. "You ride up as close
as you can, rope the calf, take two or three
turns, let the rope play out and before it
comes to an end, clamp down and stop him.
Often the smoke will rise up, depending on
how fast things are moving. Get a finger in
there, it will pop right off. You see guys go-
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ing."
Ickes, who in a former life competed on
an amateur roping team, notes that his fel-
low cowboys liked to exhort one another
"Dally up!" as they jumped on their horses.
An effective technique, perhaps, for dealing
with wayward political consultants and re-
calcitrant members of Congress?
"Yes!" Ickes agrees with a feral glint in
his ice-blue eyes. "Dally up!" he shouts met-
aphorically. "Daly up!"
See ICKES, C2, CoL IART BUCHWALD
Rubber Glove Treatment
There is a bit of a
dust-up at the White
House because Secret
Service uniformed guards
wore rubber gloves when 50
gay elected officials paid a
visit there.
The White House had to
apologize, but so far no one
has come up with an
explanation as to why the
guards took such
extraordinary measures.
My visit to 1600
Pennsylvania Ave. raised more
questions than it answered.
As a precaution I wore
rubber gloves when I showed
my pass.
The guard looked at me
suspiciously and asked, "Why
are you wearing rubber
gloves."
I winked at him. "You know
as well as I do. You can never
tell who you're going to shake
bands with around here."
He let me in and I started
moseying around. I asked
another guard, "Why do
Secret Service guardswear
rubber gloves?"
He replied, "Because of the
squirrels-they are always
eating out of our hands."
"What about the lobbyists?"
"The White House staff are
always eating out of their
hands. We don't want to get
infected by them, either."
It sounded like a good
reason, but not good enough.
Another uniformed officer,
who was wearing not only
rubber gloves but a face mask
as well, said, "You never know
when you might get infected
with Lyme disease by a
visiting head of state.""Then you didn't wear the
rubber gloves because you had
gay visitors to the White
House?"
"That would be insanity and
also show prejudice against a
certain group of people.
Rubber gloves have always
been part of a Secret Service
uniform. They go extremely
well in parades with our blue
uniform. They also look very
smart when you're saluting
the president.
"Whoever says we wear
gloves to make a statement
about homosexuality doesn't
know what he's talking about."
The nearer I got to the
White House administration
the more embarrassed
everyone seemed to be.
One White House
spokesman said, "If people
handling food in restaurants
are required to wear rubber
gloves, why shouldn't Secret
Service police wear them
when handling tourists?"
"I didn't know it was that
unhealthy handling tourists."
"Have you seen some of
them lately?"
I tried to shake hands in my
rubber gloves with
congressmen and senators who
had just seen the president, but
they kept backing away.
"What are you afraid of?" I
asked one gay-bashing
congressman.
"Why are you wearing
rubber gloves if you don't
have a horrible disease?" he
asked me.
"All the guards are doing it,"
I protested.
"How do I know they're not
sick, too?"
1995, Los Angeles Times SyndicateBy Stephanie Griest
Waashington Post Staff Writer
First, the photographs: soft black-and-whites, faded
sepias or glossy full-colors. In picture after picture, vi-
brant young women in perfectly pressed military uni-
forms smile confidently. Some date as far back as the
Civil War.
Then, the stories: A few are typed, but most are
painstakingly scripted in longhand. Along with the pic-
tures, they are carefully catalogued in loose-leaf bind-
ers, one woman's history per page. Some women
wrote epics-a Desert Storm veteran mailed in 47
pages of memoirs. Others opted for simple anecdotes.
"I told the male recruiter, 'I want to join the Navy,' "
began Lillian Peterson Budd, who was a chief yeoman
during World War I. "He pointed to a curtained corner
and said. 'Take off your clothes [for the sicall.' "Back then, according to Budd's recollections, wom-
en didn't even get into the bathtub without a night-
gown, but she took off her skirt, blouse, shoes, stock-
ings, corset, corset cover, three petticoats and ruffled
bloomers. When one weeping recruit told her, "You act
like you don't mind having no clothes on," Budd re-
plied, "Oh, after the first couple of times you get used
to this sort of thing!"
A few women penned their thoughts in a single sen-
tence.
"[My most memorable experience was] befriending
a young Korean boy in Seoul, Korea, in 1975 for 5 to 6
months, only to find him frozen in a hole in the wall
outside the compound," wrote Joan Humes, an Army
staff sergeant from Philadelphia.
At noon today, ground will be broken for a memorial
to celebrate these women and these stories at the
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Some Urge Boycott in
National Front Towns
By Sharon Waxman
Special to The Washington Past
PARIS-The unprecedented
election of three National Front
mayors in the South of France and
another hard-right candidate in Nice
over the weekend has pushed artists
here from the usual polite, if vehe-
ment, political debate into political
action. In protest of the new mayors'
anti-immigrant, ultranationalist-
and often anti-contemporary art-
views, many have begun canceling
shows and calling for boycotts.
In the southern port of Toulon,
the largest city where the National
Front party won power, Albanian-
born choreographer Angelin PreiJo-
caj said he would move his dance
company, the respected Preljocaj
Ballet, elsewhere. "This election
means goodbye," he told reporters
on Tuesday. "I will not, and I cannot,
keep my children, my family, my
dancers, my friends and my work in
this putrid place."
In Nice, where far-right candidate
Jacques Peyrat-who only recently
left the National Front-was elect-
ed, organizers canceled an exhibit of
photography and contemporary art
scheduled for September, while in
Orange musicians reconsidered their
participation in the annual popular
music and opera festivals in the
city's Roman outdoor theater. On
See ARTISTS, CS, Col 3Style Plus: Strangers,
but not for longCyberSurfing:
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THURSDAY, JunE 22, 1995
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