Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deemed critical to capturing the entire region. After South Carolina, the rest of the primary march was anticlimactic. Grand plans were hatched for the months before the August convention. The nominee-presumptive would preside over national-issues forums to demonstrate seriousness of purpose. A running mate and some likely Cabinet choices would be selected, a shadow government to telegraph what an Administration of adults--as opposed to baby boomers--would look like. But Dole, broke and exhausted, had the stomach for none of it. And so he watched from the sidelines with scarcely an answering volley as the Clinton machine...
...first Republican ever elected state-wide to a Florida cabinet post when he became treasurer, Gallagher ran for governor of that state in 1986 and also served in the State House of Representatives...
...teachers' unions, the granting of taxpayer-subsidized loans to middle-class students who used them for stereos and cars, and the neglect of the basics in schools and colleges. He promoted "the three Cs": content, character and parental choice in public schools. President Reagan observed during one Cabinet meeting, "I see that Bill here is in trouble again with the Washington Post." He paused, then added, "So what's wrong with the rest...
DIED. CHARLES KIRBO, 79, unassuming Georgia lawyer who was former President Jimmy Carter's one-man "Kitchen Cabinet" and closest friend; in Atlanta. Kirbo first aided Carter in 1962, when he successfully argued a ballot-stuffing case that nearly cheated Carter out of a state Senate seat. Kirbo went on to advise Carter in his gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, as well as on the running of the White House. Kirbo always preferred anonymity, declining Governor Carter's offer to appoint him to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat...
Three administrators and the president and vice president of PBHA hold voting, ex officio positions on the board of trustees. In the future, other members will be selected by a standing nominating committee consisting of two elected board members and will be voted on by the PBHA cabinet, which is made up of all of PBH's program directors...