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...congressional Democrats to shift in the same direction. And the movement picked up speed last week. The White House is considering abolition of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Great Society creation that is devoted mostly to problems of the inner cities. Chief of staff Leon Panetta is also promising that the Clinton welfare-reform plan will be revised so that the cost of job training and child care would be covered by cuts in other programs for the poor. "Any welfare proposal worth its salt," he says, "has to save money." Yet most Americans may have more...
...President learned last Friday morning that Elders had recently called on schools to consider teaching students about masturbation, he lost no time in firing her. "There have been too many areas in which the President does not agree with her views," said White House chief of staff Leon Panetta. "This is just one too many...
...year's end. "It is time for me to move on to do other things," said the 34-year old native Californian, the first woman to hold the post. Myers' resignation was widely expected since her successful efforts to fight off an attempt by Chief of Staff Leon Panetta to move her to another job in a staff overhaul at the White House. Today, when asked if was being forced out, Myers said, "I'm neither jumping nor being pushed. I'm walking away when I think it's the best time." Myers' successor is rumored to be Mike McCurry...
...pragmatic to be in denial" about the message voters sent Democrats, a supportive White House aide says of the First Lady. "She can be self-righteous, yes, but she is not a person to deny reality." Even Panetta, says a senior official, believes Mrs. Clinton "gets it. She knows what the basic problems were." The chief of staff makes a point of inviting her to strategy sessions because, as this official puts it, her presence "does help...
...change in its Bosnia policy that brings the U.S. into line with its NATO allies. The Administration will abandon its strategy of threatening the use of military force in order to bring the Bosnian Serbs to the bargaining table. "Our only hope," said White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, "is that at some point the parties recognize there's no use continuing the kind of carnage that's going on there at the present time...