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Although such high-level officials as Secretary of Labor-designate Robert B. Reich, a former lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, and Vice President-elect Al Gore '69, an overseer, have strong ties to Cambridge, city officials don't expect any special treatment because of those links...
...House was inevitable. When the chore changed from campaigning to governing, Clinton had to confront the flaws in his prescriptions and the excessively optimistic projections of the institutions over which he has no control. "The bad news had to be delivered at some point," says Labor Secretary-designate Robert Reich. "It was only a matter of when and where...
...head of the Clinton transition's economic planning group, Reich became responsible for putting it all together for the President-elect at Blair House. "By definition, the 'natural effects' stuff was out of our control, so laying that much on him was easy," says one of the Blair House participants. "The question beforehand was how to tell him that some of the cost estimates and revenue projections in PPF were, to put it mildly, unrealistic. Clinton has a fierce temper -- you don't ever want to be on its receiving end -- and he was convinced the PPF numbers were airtight...
...stiff, perhaps because those first nominees (save Altman) represented a generation older than his own. How different his mood on Friday, when he was surrounded by appointees whom he genuinely enjoys and who fit his vow of "a new generation of leaders." Harvard political economist Robert Reich, a Rhodes scholar with Clinton, will be Secretary of Labor. Health and Human Services went to Donna Shalala, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and a friend of Hillary Clinton's. Another woman becomes chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a Berkeley economist. And Carol Browner, a former...
...whether General Colin Powell was in contention, as rumored, for Secretary of State. Sure, there have been a few wrong calls -- Carol Browner, and not former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, was named to head the Environmental Protection Agency. There were also surprises -- almost no one predicted that Robert Reich would end up as Secretary of Labor, and few slated Donna Shalala for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Democratic national chairman Ronald Brown seemed headed for the United Nations, not Commerce. Like Brown, both Reich and Shalala were leaked as likely prospects for top jobs...