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While Cabinet secretaries and Senators sometimes cross swords, Elizabeth Dole's elevation should ease the occasional awkwardness that resulted when she was defending White House positions and her husband was publicly opposing them. It should also reduce slightly any embarrassment caused by the Senator's overt presidential ambitions. By shifting to Transportation, she will be a few steps removed from the more delicate congressional and political operations at the White House...
Elizabeth Dole is given much of the credit for her husband's transformation from a partisan hatchet man to a legislative power. Although he still has the sardonic wit that made him the acid-tongued heavy when he was Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976, his humor has lost its nasty edge. He has mellowed personally and become more moderate politically. His stock soared during the last session when, almost singlehanded, he shepherded through Congress $98.3 billion worth of tax hikes designed to offset the staggering federal deficit...
Perhaps with his own political ambitions in mind, Dole has been vocal in criticizing Reagan on the deficit, Social Security and food-stamp cuts. Lately, however, he has softened his barbs, anxious not to antagonize the White House in the coming budget wars and, perhaps, eager to smooth things over before his wife ascends to the Cabinet. Writing in the New York Times last week, he lavishly praised Reagan's "remarkable leadership" and insisted that the President's coalition with congressional Republicans was not eroding, as the press had suggested...
...confirmed, Elizabeth Dole will take over a department where political astuteness, rather than transportation expertise, is the watchword. She will be responsible for portioning out billions of dollars to states and cities for highway, airport and mass-transit programs. She will have to implement many of the policies put into effect by Lewis, one of Reagan's most highly regarded Cabinet members. Her biggest challenge will be to complete the rehabilitation of the air-traffic-control system, which was left in shambles after the controllers' walkout in August 1981. She also has to carry...
...School. In the Johnson and Nixon Administrations, she worked on consumer affairs and was named a Federal Trade Commissioner in 1973. Once a Democrat and later an independent, she registered as a Republican just before marrying the Senator. After her husband dropped out of the 1980 presidential race, Elizabeth Dole campaigned for Reagan and was made a member of his transition team. Although criticized by women's groups last spring for not speaking out more on women's issues from the White House, she did work quietly with her husband and the Senate Judiciary Committee to eliminate discriminatory...