* Job Search: Former President Richard M....

* Job Search: Former President Richard M. Nixon could not resist a dig when one of his former antagonists, ex-CBS newsman Daniel Schorr, showed up at a Washington dinner last week. Then-President Nixon, angered by Schorr’s reporting, once ordered the FBI to investigate him. But Nixon misled all in the capital by having the investigation conducted in the open, as though Schorr was being considered for an appointment. Said Schorr of their meeting at the dinner: “I said: ‘Mr. Nixon, I just wanted to say hello.’ ” Nixon responded: “Daniel, damn near hired you once.”

* Up In Smoke: Rep. Patricia Schroeder said serving on House committees covering defense and the family gives her a wide perspective. She said recently: “My husband kept saying that I was the only person who watched TV during the war and (who would) see a Patriot missile go by the screen and scream: ‘That’s 125 kids’ tuition to Harvard!’ ”

* Rage: The defense attorney in the “fatal attraction” trial in White Plains, N.Y., Monday ripped into the prosecution’s case, accusing Paul Solomon of plotting his wife’s death and framing his lover, Carolyn Warmus, with the killing. Speaking to a packed courtroom, lawyer David Lewis insisted that Warmus was innocent of the murder of Betty Jeanne Solomon, shot down in her home Jan. 15, 1989. “There was no love in the house,” said Lewis, snidely insisting Solomon reached the stage “when your wife no longer is a human being, but a piece of baggage--so you kill her.”

* Big Leagues: Dan Quayle’s Little League uniform, his favorite childhood sweat shirt and a purse made by his mother will be part of a May library exhibit in Huntington, Ind., devoted to the vice president. “I want it to be a gala celebration that Huntington and the state has a vice president,” said event spokesman David Schenkel. “Politics aside, that’s an honor.” Quayle graduated from Huntington High in 1965.