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...reduction on which Clinton campaigned. "Bill didn't want a brain trust," a transition official remarked. "He needed a sales force -- and that's what he's got." Indeed, Clinton, the Washington "outsider," might be said to have created the capital's most potent lobbying firm: Bentsen, Panetta, Rubin & Altman...
...team. Clinton's choice for Treasury Secretary, aides say, is Lloyd Bentsen, the Senate Finance Committee chairman. The senior Senator from Texas, who was nominated for Vice President in 1988, is seen as having the stature and experience to steer Clinton's economic plan through Congress. Investment banker Roger Altman, a Treasury official in the Carter Administration, is said to be the leading contender for deputy secretary...
Clinton named investment banker Roger Altman asBentsen's top assistant and former CongressionalBudget Office Director Alice M. Rivlin asPanetta's deputy...
...assigned roles without complaint. If his appointment of Harvard's Robert Reich to oversee economic issues during the transition translates into Reich's anointment as Economic Security adviser, the Administration will be well served. "Besides being smart as hell, Bob has the temperament to manage competing egos," says Roger Altman, a Clinton economic-policy adviser. "He is unflappable and well respected, someone the others could work with harmoniously, knowing their positions would be faithfully presented to the President...
...Roger Altman: The vice chairman of the Blackstone Group investment banking firm served as Jimmy Carter's Assistant Treasury Secretary. "Roger's the best at working with the rest of us, and he knows Washington," says a Clinton adviser. "He's known for taking the deficit seriously, but at 46 he may be too young for a President of the same age. Yet if all that matters after four years is the bottom line, Altman could help us get on its good side...