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That only partly explains why O'Neill had to be coaxed into taking the job of Treasury Secretary. The other reason is that O'Neill didn't know George W. Bush well. So the two men, joined by Vice President-elect Dick Cheney, had lunch in Austin three weeks ago. O'Neill told friends later that Bush and Cheney made him feel like an instant insider, and he was happy the conversation had been so candid...
What was president-elect George W. Bush thinking when he selected John Ashcroft as his nominee for Attorney General? That since he was designating three superbly qualified African Americans for high-level positions--Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Education Rod Paige--blacks would somehow overlook Ashcroft's horrendous record on race? Or that it was compassionately conservative for Bush to hire a man who had just lost re-election as Missouri's junior U.S. Senator to a dead man? (Governor Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash during the campaign...
President-elect George W. Bush last Friday named Rod Paige as his choice for Secretary of Education, extending their six-year working relationship. As superintendent of the Houston independent school district since 1994, Paige started a voucher program for struggling students, instituted a policy of "zero tolerance" for weapons, ended most exemptions from state tests and stopped social promotion--all policies Bush promoted as Texas Governor and presidential candidate. Paige, 67, was named the nation's top urban educator...
...pharmaceutical career at G.D. Searle & Co. Pentagon officials and Bush see Rumsfeld as a counterweight to Colin Powell, the retired Army general tapped to run Bush's foreign policy. "General Powell is a strong figure and Dick Cheney is no shrinking violet, but neither is Don Rumsfeld," the President-elect said before making clear he would settle any squabbles among the trio...
Just as the winter weather opens ever-larger potholes on America's highways, the potholes along the road to the confirmation of President-elect Bush's Cabinet nominees are getting a little bigger each...