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...Baird debacle, officials vowed there would be no premature announcement, no surprise about illegal aliens, no misreading of public sentiment. So, while staff members completed their check of candidates for the post of Attorney General, the White House floated the name of New York Federal District Judge Kimba Wood to coax any opposition out into the open. When none emerged, word leaked from the White House that the Wood nomination was almost a sure thing. Then last Friday night came the awful deja vu. Again, a woman withdrew her name from consideration for the post. Again, the conflict involved...
President Clinton had been looking for a woman to fill the Cabinet post at the Justice Department, but nominee Zoe Baird, a Connecticut corporate attorney, and near-nominee Kimba Wood, a New York federal judge, pulled themselves out of consideration after admitting to hiring illegal aliens as employees...
...miscalculations, late reactions and overreactions surrounding the search for an ethically pure attorney general, we seem to have forgotten something: Kimba Wood is no Zoe Baird...
...this is not a license to reject law-abiding and respectable citizens like Kimba Wood. By many accounts, Wood could have been a fantastic attorney general. A Federal District Judge since 1988, she has a reputation for toughness that she earned by sentencing Michael Milken to 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud...
Unfortunately, a spineless overreaction to the Baird fiasco prevented Clinton from nominating Wood. That decision is a political setback for Clinton's administration, an unfortunate loss for the country and a grievous injustice to Kimba Wood...