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...centrist Democrats have reason to doubt Clinton's commitment to political reform. Several of the "new Democrats" who helped generate the best ideas for Clinton's campaign, including Democratic Leadership Council luminaries David Osborne and Robert Shapiro, have not found places in the new regime. Said former drug czar and Education Secretary Bill Bennett: "We know now that 'a place called Hope' seems to be a room full of lawyers." For all the ethnic and gender diversity of Clinton's Cabinet, 14 of its 18 members are attorneys...
...Baker so much that the president brought him out of the State Department to serve as chief of staff during the campaign. During the second presidential debate, Bush made it clear that, if he were elected to a second term, Baker would serve as some sort of "domestic policy czar. Baker enjoyed his role in the State Department, but he was also the one person Bush could trust to prevent disaster in important situations...
...Republican solution over the last decade has concentrated on the drug user, bursting the seams of the nation's jails with people from the low, or user, end of the drug trade. At the same time, the Nancy Reagans and William Bennetts (the former drug czar) berated the citizenry over its appetite for narcotics: Just...
What President-elect Clinton must do is to appoint Morgenthau as the nation's next drug czar--with only this one responsibility, but with broad authority: follow the bucks. Don't bother him with interdiction...
Ironically, the staff bemoans the "vague" and "uncertain" status of Epps' proposals but then indulges in hollow generalizations like the need for a "courageous" person with "charisma" to serve as Harvard's race relations czar. Perhaps the staff should consider someone like Robespierre. He had courage and charisma...