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...meetings without the President, he can exercise final say over issues involving the media, the public "message" and scheduling. And he often acts as Clinton's proxy on more substantive issues. At a meeting last week on entitlements, a bevy of heavy hitters including Gergen, domestic policy assistant Carol Rasco and budget chief Leon Panetta, argued back and forth. Says one who was there: "When George spoke, it wasn't part of the debate. It was time to close your notebook." No one has suggested that Clinton invested such power in a dummy or straw man. Like the President, Stephanopoulos...
...months, HHS decided that the new law meant states must fund such abortions or risk losing their Medicaid dollars -- a legal interpretation other Administration lawyers dispute. As procedure dictates, a draft directive was faxed to the offices of White House Cabinet Secretary Christine Varney and domestic policy chief Carol Rasco. Almost everyone, including the President, had left for Christmas vacation, and the proposed order sat unread. "In fact," says a White House aide, "Carol never got it at all." Not so, counters an HHS official, "and we've got the fax receipts to prove it." No matter. Everyone knew what...
...Press conference: "Mr. McLarty, Mr. Rubin, Ms. Rasco and Mr. Lake, to name four, and I are, I think, older than our counterparts were when President Kennedy was President...
...wall-to-wall resort hotels and restaurants along Miami Beach, most of the busboys are now Cubans. A former army officer runs a boardinghouse. shares a single bedroom with four members of his family. A onetime accountant mixes chemicals on the night shift of a local plant. Ramon Rasco, once a prominent Havana lawyer, makes the Miami rounds in his battered old Chevrolet station wagon each day, collecting clothes for a dry cleaner. His wife Emilia has learned to cook-in Havana she had three servants -and the two eldest of her six children go to special English classes...