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...think Leon Panetta is a terrific choice ... He's just a terrific guy. He's got a good sense of humor, and he's got a really good sense of the American people and what they want." -- Clinton adviser Paul Begala, commenting on Leon Panetta's appointment as White House chief of staff...
...Begala felt as if he were from a different country than some of the senior Clinton officials ... The worst of them, Begala felt, was Leon Panetta, the former congressman from Carmel Valley. Begala felt that of all 435 congressional districts, Panetta's was least representative of America -- the pure, elitist, unreal world of California dreaming. Panetta seemed to love talking about nothing more than deficit reduction ... In private, ((Begala)) began applying a new label to the budget director: 'The Poster Boy for ) Economic Constipation."' -- from Bob Woodward's The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
Ellis said the likelihood of this "working opposition" is what led to Clinton's appointment of Leon Panetta--whom Ellis said is liked and respected on Capitol Hill--as Chief of Staff...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, / Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...Leon Panetta is wasting no time in trying to yank President Clinton's legislative agenda out of the gutter lane. In his first 24 hours as White House chief of staff, the former budget director and congressional powerhouse held cloakroom negotiations with Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan on Clinton's troubled health care package, went on TV to pooh-pooh a weekend poll showing sinking approval ratings, then staged a lunch for 40 reporters to push Clinton's well-received crime and welfare reform bills. TIME White House correspondent Michael Duffy says Panetta is moving quickly to clarify the stakes...