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...verge of slipping away. Take the Teamsters: Clinton had broken the union's long-standing alliance with Republicans, but by early 1995 its enthusiasm had "died down," an Administration memo says. So Clinton's team went to work. Harold Ickes, then the deputy chief of staff, and Mickey Kantor, the U.S. Trade Representative, took pains to help Teamster president Ron Carey deal with a bitter California strike, according to interviews and documents obtained by TIME. While the White House overture failed to win concessions for the Teamsters, it apparently helped the White House score points with the union. The Teamsters...
...assist he did. Teamster officials, with a fine understanding of political pressure points, asked Ickes to put Kantor on the case. Who better to jawbone the management of Diamond Walnut than the man charged with opening foreign markets for American nuts? "I remember calling Mickey and saying, 'This is something bothering the Teamsters,'" Ickes told TIME. Said a White House veteran familiar with the issue: "Implicit in such messages is, Bring pressure to bear...
Knight moved next to the Commerce Department, where he escorted Molten officials for a briefing by trade officials on Mexican environmental-cleanup opportunities the same year. In July 1996, Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor called Pemex's director general to plug the company and its bid for toxic-waste work in Mexico. Pemex has indicated a strong interest in the project but has yet to announce a decision...
That leaves an even shorter short list. The betting is on former Commerce Secretary and Trade Representative MICKEY KANTOR, who was disappointed when he didn't get the job in the first place. Also in the running are JOHN HILLEY, Clinton's point man on dealing with Capitol Hill, and National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER. But White House handicappers speculate that Hilley may have too many enemies in the White House and on the Hill, and Berger's chances suffer because he took over at the N.S.C. just a few months...
...Albright took over the presidency of the Center for National Policy. Robert Rubin '60, Warren Christopher and Mickey Kantor--all of whom would later serve in President Clinton's Cabinet--were among the members of the center's board. In that position, she prodded researchers to ground their analysis by using polls and opinion surveys to gauge domestic reaction...