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...real job of the affable Berger is to be Mr. Inside, the daily consensus builder brokering honestly among competing interests from State, Defense, the intelligence community, the NSC staff. He'll be there to get the job done. This rumpled trade lawyer lacks the intellectual heft of Lake but is a better bureaucratic synthesizer, a noted detail man, and he is well liked by just about everyone in the Administration...
...ambassador Madeleine Albright emerged as the nation's first ever female Secretary of State, smashing through Washington's gender ceiling. Retiring Republican Senator William Cohen was asked to head the Pentagon; the President's old pal Samuel Berger was elevated from No. 2 at the National Security Council (NSC) to No. 1, while loyal but not intimate friend Anthony Lake was switched from that...
...Cohen for Defense, and Albright was an obvious choice for State. Colin Powell, considered at one point for the job, was pressed by the Vice President as a way to neutralize a potential rival in 2000. But the Republican of choice was always Cohen for Defense. Berger got the NSC job in part by default: he was offered the chief-of-staff position when Erskine Bowles at first seemed unwilling to take it, so NSC was the consolation prize. And Lake was rewarded with the CIA after being evicted from the NSC to make room for Berger...
...politically from the crisis. A CIA estimate this summer concluded that the new sanctions have actually strengthened his regime, handing it a convenient excuse to crack down on dissidents. "We're left now with a relationship that's more dysfunctional than during the cold war," says Robert Pastor, an NSC expert on Latin America during the Carter Administration. But in Florida, Clinton leads Dole in the latest polls by as much as five percentage points...
...warfare that marred the Carter Administration, in which most of them served. They have succeeded up to now, but the good manners are beginning to fray slightly. State Department officials believe their boss is slammed for things that should be blamed on the Pentagon or the National Security Council NSC. Christopher tells his aides not to finger-point, but last week one of them confided, "He has taken criticism for a number of things he didn't take the lead on. You know, he doesn't conduct military operations...