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...wavering on appointments also signifies a lack or organization. Why, after such problems sprang from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Judge Kimba Wood for Attorney General, didn't the Clinton team scrutinize its next choices more? If the press could find Stephen Breyer's "Zoe Baird Problem" and Lani Guinier's inflammatory writings within a week of the release of their names, why couldn't Clinton & Co.? The public's disillusionment with the president could come from his snatch-and-grab appointments as much as his programs...
Next it was her loyalty to Lani Guinier, whose nomination as Assistant Attorney General Reno continued to support long after the rest of the Administration had decided to cut her loose. Reno, of course, had nothing to do with nominating Guinier in the first place. Like other picks for top jobs at Justice, Guinier had a long-standing connection with her Yale Law School classmates Bill and Hillary. But Reno came to genuinely like Guinier, and hoped to work with her. Once the President decided otherwise, White House officials complain, Reno still gave Guinier a room at the Justice Department...
...Shaken, somber, near tears - those were the words used to describe Clinton as he met the press after the session with ((Lani)) Guinier." -- PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, June...
...little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter" and family-leave bills, some vague reformist intentions here and there -- followed by an inexorable stagger to the right. Even after all the bean counting, for example, and despite the near appointment of Lani Guinier, Clinton is surrounded with moderate white fellows like Bentsen, Rubin, Panetta and Christopher; and his Cabinet contains more millionaires per capita than either Reagan's or Bush...
Having botched Lani Guinier's nomination, the Clinton Administration has developed a new list of candidates to head up the Justice Department's civil rights division. Among them are Lynn Walker, director of human-rights and social-justice programs for the Ford Foundation (her plus: has skimpy, Souter- like paper trail); John Payton, the corporation counsel for the District of Columbia (his plus: is viewed as nonthreatening conciliator); john powell, American Civil Liberties Union legal director (his minus: prefers to lowercase name a la e.e. cummings); Judith Winston, Department of Education general- counsel designee (her minus: already nominated...