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Greenspan succeeded Paul Volcker as Fed chairman in 1987. Experts give him high marks for providing ample credit to the financial community and thereby helping overcome disasters ranging from the crash of '87 to the near collapse of the banking industry when it was saddled in the late 1980s with...
Although South Dakota's Thomas Daschle is barely into his second term in the U.S. Senate, he has taken a surprising lead in the quiet but intense race to succeed the retiring George Mitchell as majority leader, the upper chamber's top job. Daschle's shrewd strategy: woo influential incumbent...
Though the White House quickly leaked a diverse list of potential choices, retiring Senate majority leader George Mitchell was the early front runner. A U.S. Attorney and a federal judge before becoming a Senator in 1980, Mitchell is popular with both parties on Capitol Hill. For a President looking for...
"Mitchell is Clinton's favorite in the true sense of the word," said an Administration official, who added, "but there are extenuating circumstances." The most serious of those circumstances is that Clinton needs Mitchell to shepherd his health-care plan through the Senate. The White House is adamant that he...
Though Clinton is anxious not to repeat the spectacle of last year's 13-week search for someone to replace Byron White, which left the road to the high bench littered with bruised rejects, White House officials took pains to deny that their focus had narrowed to Mitchell. But few...