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...diversity-and-previous-GOP-administration category, Linda Chavez for secretary of labor. Chavez, who was director of the civil rights commission under President Ronald Reagan, has written extensively enough on the subject of civil rights to provide plenty of fodder for Democrats looking to make trouble for her nomination. But for now, her name ends in a "z," and she's the fourth woman on the Bush team...
...diversity-and-previous-GOP-administration category, Linda Chavez for secretary of labor. Chavez, who was director of the civil rights commission under President Reagan, has written extensively enough on the subject of civil rights to provide plenty of fodder for Democrats looking to make trouble for her nomination. But for now, her name ends in a "z," and she's the fourth woman on the Bush team...
...Interior secretary, essentially the nation's park steward and the person who'll have a lot to say about where the derricks go, it's Gale Norton, who served as Colorado's attorney general for eight years and is an Interior and Agriculture vet from earlier GOP administrations. That's she's from one of those red states out in the untamed west is no surprise; that she's not Slade Gorton, the departing senator from Microsoftland who has made more enemies among American Indians than Bruce Babbit ever dreamed of, should reduce the controversy factor considerably. Very Bush...
...Bush's choices have been strategic. He has tapped people from the two most politically-important states: Florida (Housing designate Mel Martinez) and California (Veneman). He has also stretched his arms to embrace the two flanks of his party, represented on the GOP's left by Christine Whitman (who is heading for the the EPA) and on the right by John Ashcroft, who Bush named last week to be his attorney general. Bush had been thinking about Ashcroft for nearly a month, but a senior Bush official told TIME.com on Saturday that the more moderate the Cabinet became last week...
...wear, ?smart casual? will be the attire of choice. Those feisty Republicans who staged the Miami-Dade recount sit-in - later discovered to be D.C. aides to GOP Congressional leaders - were all wearing duds from the LL Bean Urbane Anarchist Collection. Revolutionaries wearing khakis and loafers...