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...could, George W. Bush would be spending Tuesday naming senior members of his Cabinet. Here's how it would go: "I am proud to have Colin Powell on board to be my Secretary of State and Condi Rice as my national security adviser." Bush is understandably anxious to make that happen: naming two African Americans among his first two Cabinet officers would certainly ring a much different-sounding starting bell than incoming Republican presidents have rung in the past...
Bush might turn a second Cabinet post over to a Democrat: The Education Department could go to Jim Hunt of North Carolina or Bill Gray, the head of the United Negro College Fund, a longtime Bush family charity. Gray would be an intriguing choice, and mean that Bush would have at least three African Americans in his Cabinet...
...lunch with Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Gore got in a quick comparative dig at his loudly transitioning opponent. Asked if he offered Summers a carryover job in a Gore administration, the veep demurred. "I personally do not feel it is appropriate to announce the names of Cabinet members or to formally offer positions," he said...
...intern in a thong? There are no brief outfits in this drama, and only the briefest appearances by the principals, who must realize from election results that half the country would be happy never to see them again. Bush, criticized for playing host to photo ops with a ghost Cabinet resurrected from Dad's White House, retreated last week to his ranch to nurse a boil, surely a biblical reminder that we'll all need the patience of Job before this is over. He reappeared midweek to slap down Gore's surprise proposal to recount all 67 Florida counties...
...Cheney respectfully reminded Americans that he and Bush were ready to move in. He announced that since the Government Services Administration had refused to turn over the keys and the cash, Bush would be raising private funds to pay for the preparations. (At a Monday cabinet meeting which Gore did not attend, Clinton did create a special transition commission to help - when all the issues are settled. The Bush team will file with the IRS as a "Texas nonprofit.") Cheney named Austin chief of staff Clay Johnson as executive director of the transition, and campaign spinner Ari Fleisher...