Word: panetta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Panetta has had his run-ins with Clinton too. In April 1993 it was the OMB director who first complained in public that the nascent Clinton team was losing its way amid a host of false starts and foolish early moves. That's the kind of candor Panetta will need if he is to bring order to Clinton's sprawling management style. But Panetta insists that Clinton longs to be better managed. More discipline, Panetta said last week, "is something he wants...
Though he likes to swim and is addicted to C-SPAN, Panetta stays close to his hardscrabble roots -- literally. He tries to get back to California twice a month, where his idea of relaxing is to climb onto his Ford tractor and work the ground on his family's 11-acre walnut ranch in the Carmel Valley. "He gets unspeakably cranky if he doesn't get back regularly," said an associate, who joked that aides have taken up inner-office collections for airfare when Panetta has been in Washington too long...
...that Panetta is Bill Clinton's chief of staff, his beloved weekends in Carmel will be rare indeed. At the White House they may want to start passing the plate immediately...
Seeking to anchor his Administration with more authoritative leadership, President Clinton named Budget Director Leon Panetta as his new chief of staff, replacing Mack McLarty, who will remain as senior counselor. The President shifted another White House aide, image molder David Gergen, to new foreign policy responsibilities as special adviser to both the President and the Secretary of State...
...Panetta obviously cannot do much about Paula Jones. If he can tighten up the White House operation and make it more efficient, that might help break the legislative logjam. But not necessarily. One indirect effect of his arrival is likely to be a sharper, more partisan, more anti-Republican tone at the White House. Whether that is really what the Clinton presidency needs is questionable. Nevertheless, the change in tone was evident even last week. The President, who had previously talked sweet bipartisan reason and adaptability on health care, lambasted Dole's proposal as "politics as usual" that threw crumbs...