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What should Matheson, a Democrat, expect from the Bush White House? What courtesies are usually given? How should he work with cabinet agencies and political officials to publicize his priorities? Who sets the agenda, the President or the Congress...
...home now. And this baby is sleeping a whole lot better than his brother did. And I'm a lot more interested in whether he'll have blue eyes or brown than in who George W. will put in his Cabinet...
President-elect George W. Bush's first nomination for his nascent Cabinet was a confirmation on Saturday of the worst-kept secret in Washington: Gen. Colin L. Powell, (Ret.), for secretary of state. Would for him that every step of this fast tiptoe through the transition minefield could be this sure...
...Powell spent the latter half of his speech plugging his America's Promise foundation, and insisted that being secretary of state of the most powerful nation on earth wouldn't cut into his charity work. He'll "encourage" other Cabinet members to follow his example. They'll be hiding from him by March, but for now this guy might as well have a halo, ascending to the nation's top foreign policy job in a setting where kids get their first taste of ambition...
Louisiana Democratic Sen. John Breaux flew to Austin Friday and the first words out of his mouth during a lunch with George W. Bush were "I want to stay in the Senate" and not join the president elect's cabinet as energy secretary. But Breaux did use the lunch to make a plug for his Louisiana buddy, former Democratic Sen. Bennett Johnston, who chaired the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee before he retired in 1996. "I can't think of anybody better," Breaux told Bush. Johnston shares Bush's views on energy policy. "If you want to have...