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Having botched Lani Guinier's nomination, the Clinton Administration has developed a new list of candidates to head up the Justice Department's civil rights division. Among them are Lynn Walker, director of human-rights and social-justice programs for the Ford Foundation (her plus: has skimpy, Souter- like paper trail); John Payton, the corporation counsel for the District of Columbia (his plus: is viewed as nonthreatening conciliator); john powell, American Civil Liberties Union legal director (his minus: prefers to lowercase name a la e.e. cummings); Judith Winston, Department of Education general- counsel designee (her minus: already nominated...
...native of Durham, North Carolina, Gergen attended Yale University and Harvard Law School, and was a Democrat until his late 20s. He went to work as a speechwriter in Richard Nixon's White House in 1971, served as communications director to Gerald Ford and was what several Bush loyalists described as a "fair-weather friend" in 1980. As assistant to chief of staff James Baker in the Reagan White House, Gergen emerged as a skilled wordsmith and political strategist, helping design the 100-day plan for winning Reagan's revolutionary tax cuts. Gergen aggressively courted reporters and earned a reputation...
...Restic was Harvard's head football coach when Bill Clinton took over the White House. He was here when George Bush moved in. He was here for Ronald Reagan (twice) and Gerald Ford. He even saw a little bit of Tricky Dick...
Hume, a renowned journalist, is currently a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. me she'd tried to kill President Ford because she wanted to prove herself a real radical instead of being an FBI phony spying on the Bay Area's radical movement. Flying to Cambodia in the back of a cargo plane on Thanksgiving Day, 1979, I saw the Khmer Rouge's just-vacated torture chambers, the pits of bones, the killing fields. At the Three Mile Island nuclear accident I thought we all were going...
...lightweight races, the Radcliffe "A" boat--which has yet to lose a race all year--demolished Ford...