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CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Hays Gorey, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...course, in light of Clinton's other picks, Brown isn't too surprising. Directionless Warren Christopher (at State) and single-minded Leon Panetta (as budget director) are terrible choices...
...late spring Clinton was pretending he had never seriously proposed the tax cut, and he knew the plan could not survive the close scrutiny it was beginning to receive. It had accurately signaled Clinton's priorities -- which remain basically intact -- but there was little supporting data. Experts like Representative Leon Panetta and Alice Rivlin (whom Clinton has tapped for the two top slots at his budget office) derided the plan as unsound, and Ross Perot ridiculed Clinton for a "a bunch of junk numbers that don't compute." Perot's criticism dovetailed perfectly with Republican claims that Clinton...
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Ajemian, Kurt Andersen, Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Mary Cronin, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Hays Gorey, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Edwin M. Reingold, Richard Schickel, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...dramatic the-envelope-please moment at the Academy Awards. For nearly a week, the press had been accurately forecasting the precise lineup of the Clinton economic team. Typical was the Dec. 5 headline in the Washington Post: BENTSEN SOUGHT AS TREASURY CHIEF. The same article had Congressman Leon Panetta slated for Director of the Office of Management and Budget, even though Panetta spokesman Barry Toiv insists that the job was not even offered until last Tuesday...