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DIED. SAMUEL R. PIERCE JR., 78, Housing Secretary under Reagan; near Washington. A scandal in the Department of Housing tainted Pierce's bright career in law and politics. He was Reagan's only black Cabinet secretary...
...What if no candidate gets 26? A: It goes into more balloting, and horse-trading for votes. Some members may be pressed to switch to the way their states, their districts or the national majority voted. Some may be swayed by the prospect of an ambassadorship or a big Cabinet job. The delegations in the new House, however, are likely to be dominated by the GOP, thus favoring Bush...
...meantime, Bush worked like a dog, putting on a tableau of transition. He may not be President, but he played one on TV, using the Governor's mansion in Austin like the set of The West Wing, ushering his make-believe Cabinet through iron gates into meetings. He gave up his usual afternoon video games and naps for lunches with his maybe Vice President on a table set with linens and silver, evoking those famous weekly Clinton-Gore meals adjacent to the Oval Office. He jauntily shooed away photographers, claiming that his soup was getting cold, which wasn't much...
...over gives us two months to fix this. Bob Dole has joked that it's going to take a swat team to blast Clinton out of the Oval Office, so we don't need to be worried about whether he's going to give two weeks' notice. No fusion Cabinet, no bonding with members of the congressional opposition, will substitute for a genuine, authoritative result we can all live with, however unhappily. Only when we have that result will the winner have any hope of doing more than play-acting at the job. That's worth waiting...
...from Washington. And so Bush aides carefully leaked that Dick Cheney would be heading the transition effort and would be assisted by Colin Powell. Andrew Card, the deputy chief of staff under President Bush, would now be chief of staff. Several photo ops were staged with Bush and his Cabinet-in-waiting to show that this certification was just a matter of time, so he'd better get down to business. "There was some internal debate about beginning the transition," says a Republican in touch with Austin. "Does it seem arrogant and overconfident, or does that project assurance...