Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President who would rather be elsewhere can delegate authority to subordinates. Clinton, however, has meticulously designed his Administration to answer to him, not to the Cabinet barons who plagued his Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter. He personally approved every State Department official ranked Assistant Secretary and above, some 30 people. "He's his own foreign policy guru," says a senior adviser. Having laid down power lines of authority that all lead to the White House, Clinton does not know how to set them humming...
Symonds estimates he spends "ten to twelve hours, six to seven days a week," working on undergraduate productions and a class, Dramatic Arts 31, he co-instructs with his predecessor Donald R. Soule...
...morning, as the assault began, reporters asked Clinton if he knew what was happening. In fact, Clinton had been briefed periodically on the progress in Waco from the start, by Reno's predecessor Stuart Gerson and by her deputy Webster Hubbell, a close friend of the Clintons'. "I was aware of it," he said. "I think the Attorney General made the decision." Pushed further, he added, "I knew it was going to be done, but the decisions were entirely theirs...
...basic discussion of the sophisticated and technical issues involved in keeping a great economic machinery moving ahead . . ." No, Bob Dole argues today, it's "a fundamental difference in philosophy" that has caused Republicans to defy the President. Dole is wrong, Kennedy was right, and Clinton needs to appreciate his predecessor's insight...
Though Bill Clinton has, as yet, no settled policy on trade, the signs are that he wants to enforce restrictions--and that he will be a lot more forceful than his relatively accommodating predecessor, George Bush. Where necessary, that will mean using coercion to demand better access to foreign markets for American exporters. And nowhere is such an approach more necessary, many of Clinton's advisers say, than in dealing with Japan--whose trade surplus with America is growing, and whose leaders are not to be trusted. To get results in Japan, the argument goes, toothless multilateral pacts...