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...newly-appointed chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, William H. Donaldson, seems to redefine the term “old boy.” He is a close friend of both Bush’s father and uncle, whom he met as an undergraduate at Yale, and like Bush was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. He was given his first job on Wall Street by Bush’s great uncle, Herbert Walker, and served in the State Department in both the Nixon and Ford administrations...
...last the Bush economic trifecta is complete. John Snow, William Donaldson and Stephen Friedman will now settle into their new jobs, with their first assignment clear: Put out the Administration's tax cut message. The White House wants to make permanent its 2001 tax break, which totaled just over $1.3 trillion. So rather than expire in 2010, as it is currently scheduled to do, the tax cut will live on into perpetuity - or at least until another administration comes in and orders its reversal...
...Snow, Donaldson and Friedman are being prepped to tell the American public two things: 1. Tax cuts will jump-start the nation's sluggish economy. And 2. Said tax cut is worth it, even if it happens to drag us into a deficit. Both these messages need to sanded, finished and lacquered for public consumption by the middle of January, when President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address - the domestic cornerstone of which is expected to be economic revitalization. And so, as the new keys to the Bush economic message, Snow, Donaldson and Friedman are our People...
...Securities and Exchange Commission, investment banker William Donaldson will be asked to handle the tax cut question for the investment community, and given his past experience - he was the chair of the New York Stock Exchange in the early 1990s - he should have no trouble doing so. President Bush hopes that the Wall Street insider will provide corporate chiefs and investors alike with a much-needed boost of confidence. He takes over for departing head Harvey Pitt, who left last month amid a flurry of blame over bad press and lukewarm economic news...
...showing up at the polls, the results of this election can hardly be called a mandate [ELECTION 2002, Nov. 18]. We should make Election Day a national holiday and push voter participation to--gasp!--50% or 60%. Only then could the words mandate and triumph be used honestly. MAGGIE DONALDSON Seattle...