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There were other, lesser leadership shifts last week as the Administration seemed to 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...
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...
...Another question raised by the latest round of changes was whether Hodel's return to Interior would revive the tensions between the Administration and environmentalists that Clark had done so much to ease. As an aide to Watt, Hodel had been an ardent champion of more oil and coal exploration and other commercial development of federal lands. While an official of a federal power authority in the Pacific Northwest, he denounced the environmental movement as having "fallen into the hands of a small, arrogant faction dedicated to bringing our society to a halt." Although he patiently listened to conservationists make...
...front runner to succeed Clark appears to be Secretary of Energy Donald Hodel. A native Oregonian, Hodel is as ideologically conservative as Watt but far more approachable. Should Hodel take the helm from Clark, the White House may try to carry out Reagan's 1980 campaign pledge to abolish the Energy Department, folding many of its functions into an expanded Interior Department and shifting its nuclear weapons research to the Pentagon...
Conceding that "none of the states is supportive" of his decision, Energy Secretary Donald Hodel named the following sites as best suited for the first dump...