Word: elective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determination to plug leaks, the President-elect has imposed a secrecy pledge on his transition staff. He has also replaced his campaign mantra, "Read my lips," with a new slogan: "Stay tuned. Wait for the announcement." Says an aide: "I don't count anything a done deal until George Bush announces it. He can be unpredictable." Last week Bush spited journalists who prematurely published the identity of his choice for Transportation Secretary by postponing the nomination of Chicago attorney Samuel Skinner...
...executive team that President-elect George Bush is assembling is starting to look like the cast of a movie: Return of the Republican Retreads. Despite Bush's pledge to name a diverse Cabinet of "fresh faces" in which women and minorities would be strongly represented, his selections so far have come from a narrow field. Of the 15 Cabinet officers and senior officials he had chosen through last week, twelve were either holdovers from the Reagan Administration or people who served under Gerald Ford...
What one aide, echoing the President-elect's characteristic phrase, calls the "balance thing" has bedeviled Bush for a fortnight. Last week he addressed it by including two men with no previous Cabinet experience and a woman among five appointments...
...woman and one minority -- holdover Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos, a Hispanic -- in his top management team. Bush promises to do more to broaden the mix. His talent scouts have mounted a national drive to recruit more minorities and females for sub-Cabinet and lower-level positions. Vows the President-elect: "Stay tuned. We're only about halfway through...
Take that favorite with compilers of resumes, "Personnel is policy." This slogan reflects the fact that things don't happen just because the President- elect has said they will. All his ideas and campaign pledges depend for their execution on a hydra-headed Administration. If the hydra's ideas come to differ from the President's, strange things may ensue...