Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gingrich was furious. He kicked off an 11th-hour meeting last Monday night with Clinton by refusing to let McCurry attend the parley unless the Speaker's own press secretary could be present. Tempers quickly flared inside the Cabinet Room. When Clinton pointed a finger at House majority leader Dick Armey, the Texan complained, "Perhaps it's my Western upbringing, but I don't listen very well when someone's pointing a finger in my face." The President retorted with his own lesson in etiquette. Dredging up Armey's attack on Hillary Clinton during last year's health-care debate...
Clinton's management style leads to confusion and competing agendas. He has always liked delegating responsibility for discrete subjects to particular aides, like Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke for Bosnia and Robert Gallucci for Korea. Bidden and unbidden, Jimmy Carter has also stepped in at crucial moments. Different Cabinet officers sometimes seize parts of a policy, like Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, whose drive for export promotion has clashed with the State Department's efforts to curb arms proliferation and human-rights abuses. Individual results may be impressive, but foreign policy by franchise loses the force and coherence...
...attempt to accelerate the peace process, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres named new cabinet ministers and forged a new coalition within the parliament, aligning his Labor Party with the pro-peace Meretz bloc and two members of a right-wing faction. TIME's Johanna McGeary reports from Jerusalem: "Peres is making the right decisions. The coalition is essentially the same coalition Rabin had before he was killed. Peres is in a very strong position right now, because of the reverberations from the assassination. Peres is riding on that. He also very wisely moved some younger Labor Party leaders into...
...break at this point," says TIME's Douglas Waller. "They've basically agreed on the major issues and are now quibbling on the minor ones. They are very close, and the only thing missing is the political will to sign. That's why you see all the heavyweight cabinet visits now, to help give them the will to sign." Waller says that Christopher will start lobbying the parties hard on Saturday. "The whole deal could still fall apart," he says. "But they are hoping for closure on this by Saturday night; possibly Sunday or even Monday." The formal treaty signing...
Moving to increase its independence from Harvard College, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) cabinet last night approved a resolution calling for the public service organization to hire its own staff...