Word: cabinets
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...Adviser Brent Scowcroft has moved his boss to the center by calling him a "Rockefeller Republican." To the Republican right, those are fighting words. So repugnant was Nelson Rockefeller's pragmatic moderation that they forced him from Gerald Ford's ticket in 1976. "Look at most of the ((Bush)) Cabinet and White House staff," says George Clark, the former New York State Republican leader who supported Reagan in 1980 against the preferences of the state party's dominant Rockefeller wing. "The more I see and read -- and I hope I'll come to think I'm just joking -- the more...
Barbara will probably never sit in on Cabinet meetings a la Rosalynn Carter or get people fired, as Nancy did. But a spousal "Dear, I wouldn't do that if I were you," delivered with a raised eyebrow, can often defeat a stack of position papers. During Bush's postelection vacation, he was asked whether he had received any advice about his new job. He smiled broadly and pointed to his wife, standing nearby in tennis shoes and sweats. Barbara raised her eyebrows and said, "Just kidding." Replied Bush...
...behind the curve, like AIDS, the homeless, civil rights and education. In the late 1950s, she battled segregationist innkeepers who refused to let the family's black baby-sitter stay with them in the same hotel. She was instrumental in the appointment of the only black in Bush's Cabinet, Dr. Louis Sullivan, whom she came to know from her work at Morehouse...
Once the interview was under way, however, the questions Carlson had worked out with White House correspondent Michael Duffy drew surprisingly candid answers from the new First Lady. Carlson predicts that Mrs. Bush will be neither a demi-Cabinet member like Rosalynn Carter nor a backstage impresario like Nancy Reagan. "Mrs. Bush is so sure of herself, she has no need to prove anything," says Carlson. "She is as comfortable discussing the merits of one campaign ad over another as she is pouring...
...Bill Bennett (6 ft. 2 in., 225 lbs. and gaining) was not the nation's drug czar then, but he may be next time he encounters those cautious bureaucrats. Bennett was nominated by President-elect George Bush last week to the newly created Cabinet-level post, and instantly lines of contention were drawn for the Senate hearings once Bush takes over...