Word: mccaffrey
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...Thursday morning, President Bush presented John Walters to a crowd gathered in the Rose Garden. Walters, who was Bush?s expected choice to fill the office left vacant by Barry McCaffrey?s January departure, is a conservative known for his hard-line policies on drug offenders...
...Barry McCaffrey, Clinton?s drug czar, was in turn critical of Walters for what McCaffrey felt was Walters? inadequate attention to treatment. Walters says he doesn?t give inadequate attention to treatment, but rather that he believes treatment alone cannot solve this problem...
Arizona's Proposition 200, which passed four years ago, was a radical departure for a conservative Republican state. Before the vote, former Presidents Ford, Carter and Bush released a letter attacking it. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey flew to Phoenix and warned that it amounted to "the legalization of all drugs." But the politicians may have been out of touch with popular sentiment. Recalls political consultant Sam Vagenas, who steered the Arizona initiative: "When we asked focus groups if we were winning the war on drugs, people just laughed...
...right thing. In an era of good news - falling crime rates and dipping drug use figures - Clinton hasn't had anybody to put on the Sunday talking-head shows to grab credit. Neither Freeh or Attorney General Janet Reno would showboat for the administration. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey would, but the retired general's too-hot-for-prime-time style sometimes provoked backlash. Ashcroft may serve that function for Bush, or he may be viewed as too much of a pol, in which case Bush would be well served to go for a more charismatic FBI director when Freeh bows...
...Drug czar Barry McCaffrey b) Pit boss Bruce Babbitt c) Chili commissar Tom Stuckey d) Divorce lawyer Raoul Felder...