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...over the Aspin departure -- and how badly it wanted to head off another cycle of news stories about the frailty of Clinton's foreign-policy team -- that it took just one day for the President to rush out his next choice for the job. Retired Navy Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, a former CIA deputy chief, inherits some of the same problems that bedeviled Aspin from the day he stepped into the job, including gays in the military and the question of when and how American forces should be used in a world of small regional conflicts. It also remains...
...Inman, who was at the top of Gore's list, had the advantage of having already been vetted by the White House last year as a potential CIA chief. At Gore's suggestion, the President invited Inman to the White House for a two- hour afterdinner chat about national-security issues. Though it wasn't intended as a job interview, it was enough to impress Clinton that he may have found his candidate. Not only was Inman a policy expert and a businessman with managerial experience, like Clinton he was a small-town boy from the South (East Texas...
...have been harder to sell Clinton to Inman, a Bush voter who didn't much feel like returning to Washington. "The President had to talk him into it," says a senior White House official. "It wasn't about defense or budgets. They just needed to get to know each other." The admiral was taken aback when the White House contacted him about the job two weeks ago. He agreed to take it only after he was satisfied that Clinton was personally committed to building a strong, forward-looking national-security policy with bipartisan support. Though impressed by Clinton, Inman still...
...Inman did not ask Clinton for a specific dollar commitment on the defense budget. Long convinced that the Pentagon procurement process is bloated and slow, Inman strongly believes more prudent spending could achieve savings, and is likely to make procurement reform a major goal. Aspin never really got control over the budget process. Early this year he sent memos to service chiefs telling them to propose $11 billion in reductions in addition to cuts the Bush Administration had already made in the Defense Department for fiscal 1994. But when he introduced his first Pentagon budget in March, it failed...
What could she mean, I thought, as I walked around Inman Square for what seemed an eternity. Is she preparing her thoughts, consulting with her conspirator on the other side, or simply psyching me out? Five minutes later, she was sitting exactly where she had been before. And where she had been before, and was now, was not the dark, frightening room of seances and sinister doings I had imagined, but an airy, pale blue front porch. The sun was streaming in, and icons of the Virgin Mary and praying hands decorated the otherwise sparse walls...