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Advisers Bruce Lindsey and Robert Reich...
...Reich and Dalton moved to Cambridge in 1981 and reared two lively boys, now 11 and 8. They also began swapping visits with their friends Bill and Hillary. The last time Bill Clinton stayed with Reich was in the spring of 1991, when President Bush was winning 80% approval ratings. Yet Clinton, chatting on the porch of Reich's big old Victorian home, nonetheless seemed determined to run against Bush. One reason, Clinton said, was to promote the ideas of investment in the future that were contained in The Work of Nations, which had just been published. A mutual friend...
...ideas of order. To many, the restoration of order means in part a Germany without foreigners, and that appeals to a significant minority. Enrico, a 15- year-old Berliner, describes himself as right-wing and disgusted with Bonn's "miserable policies." He says he finds the Third Reich an attractive model: "O.K., everything wasn't exactly right then, but there was order in Germany. Then there were just Germans in Germany. I don't like the way Germany looks...
Following Ford's example, Clinton will face the challenge of selecting people willing to play their assigned roles without complaint. If his appointment of Harvard's Robert Reich to oversee economic issues during the transition translates into Reich's anointment as Economic Security adviser, the Administration will be well served. "Besides being smart as hell, Bob has the temperament to manage competing egos," says Roger Altman, a Clinton economic-policy adviser. "He is unflappable and well respected, someone the others could work with harmoniously, knowing their positions would be faithfully presented to the President...
...that Clinton has kicked back this and other lists asking for "more names, different names." That's "his pattern," says a Clinton aide, "but he often returns to the original list, as he did with Al Gore." That is why the smart money is on Volcker, Rivlin and Reich, a trio that would satisfy Clinton's desire for a "Wow!" response from the financial community. "All he knows for sure at this point," said this Clinton aide last Friday, "is that whomever he selects had better play well with others. Only collegiality will get results, and without results, Clinton will...