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Clinton was still able to preside Friday morning at a mass swearing-in ceremony for the other 13 members of his Cabinet, plus three more top aides. Even those who had faced tough questioning in confirmation hearings -- Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt -- were confirmed with barely a murmur of opposition. A still closer presidential assistant also is moving into new quarters. Hillary Clinton became the first First Lady to line up an office in the executive West Wing of the White House; her husband's aides said she would be an important adviser...
Those words reflect the arrogance of newfound power, and they are not the only example displayed by the Clinton Administration. Moynihan is a consummate gentleman, and he is eager to help. In that spirit he privately counseled Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala (whom he has known for years) before her confirmation hearings: "We told her the committee wanted to hear about welfare and Social Security. All we got was a few sentences. It was kind of incredible." And it became a bit ugly -- in the senatorial sense, that is. Shalala told the committee that the Children's Defense...
Walter Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University in Virginia, cited the medical school as an example of the reverse discrimination he says is advocated by President Clinton's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna E. Shalala...
...didn't really know or care much about Tupperware before--it was such a Donna Reed-type thing," says Mark C. Alonge '96. "But [Maimonis] made it seem sort of worthwhile...
...Among his most fundamental campaign pledges, one that helped to define him as a "New Democrat," was the promise to "end welfare as we know it," but welfare reform fails to appear in the top five priorities of either Clinton or Donna Shalala, his designated Secretary of Health and Human Services...