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...stumble into the dawn of its last term. Energy Secretary Donald Hodel, a brainy, amiable top aide to former Interior Secretary James Watt, will return to head the Interior Department, taking over for the California- bound Clark. Hodel, in turn, will be replaced at Energy by John S. Herrington, who earned respect as director of personnel at the White House. His departure creates yet another vacancy for Regan to fill in his new job. The Education Department will be headed by William Bennett, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, filling the opening created by the postelection resignation...
...Both Herrington and Hodel have been instructed to study ways in which the functions of their departments might be dispersed to other agencies or combined in some fashion. While neither the Energy nor Education departments, which have strong advocates on Capitol Hill and constituencies outside of Government, seemed in imminent danger of being dismantled, it was clear that Reagan had not totally abandoned his long-held desire to get rid of them. More confusion was created by a Cabinet-meeting discussion at which it was decided to consider the possibility of creating an entirely new Department of Trade and Industry...
Adams Assistant to the Masters Patricia Herrington agrees that an attractive suite can make a large difference in the House. "The elaborate suites are in the other houses, so they get all the prominent guests," she says...
...Adams House, this year's construction may have brought an untimely end to their guest book. "The book is missing due to a mix-up in renovation plans, just as many of our paintings and furniture are," says Assistant to the Masters Patricia Herrington...
...present members, including themselves. But hours before the committee was to meet, the White House gave Mary Frances Berry, Blandina Cardenas Ramirez and Rabbi Murray Saltzman a totally different message. As expressed in a letter hand-carried to Berry's office and signed by Personnel Assistant John S. Herrington, it was: "The President has requested that I inform you that your appointment as a member of the Commission on Civil Rights terminates effective today." The next day their names were unceremoniously removed from the lobby directory at the commission's Vermont Avenue offices in downtown Washington...