Under Mr. Klein's proposal, essentially a technical change, the assistants would now be employed under the title of "substitute aide," an existing departmental position that pays $12.30 an hour, with no benefits.
Because of an editing error, a front-page article on Wednesday about missteps that led to the demise of a plan for a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan -- including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's failure to win support from Sheldon Silver, the State Assembly speaker -- misstated the title of a former aide to Mr. Silver who is now a lobbyist for Cablevision, which opposed the stadium.
"Any chance the media reads WAY too much into the title of the movie, Prisoners?" the aide wrote to the group.
The bible of all things correct, "Emily Post's Etiquette," allows that the title "The Honorable" "causes considerable confusion". But it decrees that a White House aide, with the title of assistant to the president and communications director for the Office of Public Liaison, isn't entitled to it.
When Braddock showed appreciation of his merits and invited him to join the expedition as personal aide-de-camp, with the courtesy title of colonel, he therefore accepted.
Scavino, who is one of Trump's closest aides, holds the title of assistant to the president, the highest-ranking staff position in the White House, one that he shares with aides like Kellyanne Conway, White House Counsel Don McGhan, and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, among others.
Less visible to U.S. officials than Mohammed's security and diplomatic aides, Qahtani has the title of adviser to the royal court and head of the state-run Center for Studies and Information Affairs.
At the time, he held the title of first secretary of the Russian mission in New York and senior aide to the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Sergey V. Lavrov.
Even before Mohammed began making his move to claim the title of crown prince, Qahtani was scouring the private sector for tools that could aide him in his efforts of suppression.
Mr. Cheney has given his chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, the additional title of national security adviser to the vice president, giving Mr. Libby, a former Pentagon aide, more sway in interagency meetings on foreign and national security policy.
