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...That was the primary purpose of Bush's well-handled Breakfast at Greenspan's last week. It's also why an ALCOA tin man is heading up Bush's treasury: Paul O'Neill, and Dick Cheney, go back three decades with the fed chairman, and a good relationship with the Fed can be a big help, especially when your old man didn't get along so well with Al. Greenspan will get his chance to sign off when he testifies before Congress this winter...
...Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Andy Card and Ann Veneman, the new Agriculture Secretary designate, all worked for Bush's father. Paul O'Neill, the Treasury designate, spent ten years as a budget whiz in Washington before working for International Paper and Alcoa. Mitch Daniels, the new budget czar, worked for Dick Lugar before going to Eli Lilly...
...great time to be a president who needed 35 days and 350 lawyers to win the election - but not a bad time to be a Republican. "We are going to play the hand we are dealt," Bush said Wednesday after naming ALCOA chief, old government hand (and longtime Greenspan buddy) Paul O'Neill to be his treasury secretary/tax-cut salesman in the coming storm...
...identifying and nominating candidates to top government posts. Wednesday, Bush called upon two Republican officials and two private citizens to join his team. Paul O'Neill got the first call, nominated for treasury secretary. Though seen as something of a Washington outsider, O'Neill, most recently chairman of the Alcoa Corporation, served for a decade in the Office of Management and Budget in the '60s and '70s. His work under Gerald Ford introduced him to then-White House chief of staff Dick Cheney...
...germ of a counterrevolution brewing? On the surface, not really. From corporate behemoths like Alcoa to midsize ad agencies to tiny Web designers, companies are still opting for open-plan offices. More companies, like Ogilvy & Mather in Los Angeles, now boast that not even their CEO has a door. Some have backtracked a little and provide sequestered spaces for the few, cubicles for the many. But most open-plan proponents still deride walls as barriers to the creative teamwork demanded by a high-speed economy...