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...pretending he had never seriously proposed the tax cut, and he knew the plan could not survive the close scrutiny it was beginning to receive. It had accurately signaled Clinton's priorities -- which remain basically intact -- but there was little supporting data. Experts like Representative Leon Panetta and Alice Rivlin (whom Clinton has tapped for the two top slots at his budget office) derided the plan as unsound, and Ross Perot ridiculed Clinton for a "a bunch of junk numbers that don't compute." Perot's criticism dovetailed perfectly with Republican claims that Clinton was a tax-and-spend liberal...
...economy. Robert Reich, 46, a Harvard lecturer named Labor Secretary, has been a close friend of Clinton's since their time at Oxford University as Rhodes scholars. ^ Reich argues that deficit spending is justified if it is directed at such areas as public transportation and job training. But Alice Rivlin, 61, the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, named Deputy Budget Director, ardently opposes deficit spending and advocates transfer of more government functions to the states. Secretary of Commerce-designate Ronald Brown, 51, who helped Clinton mend fences with black voters as Democratic National Chairman, is a sometime lobbyist...
...appointment of such deficit hawks as Panetta and Rivlin was widely -- and probably incorrectly -- read last week as a sign that Clinton is leaning away from additional deficit spending early next year to stimulate the economy. To be sure, encouraging reports on job creation and economic growth have convinced many economists, and some of Clinton's aides, that such stimulus is no longer necessary. But those same reports have galvanized traditional liberals among Clinton's supporters, who fear that good economic news will undermine the rationale for new deficit spending on social programs and public works projects...
...work with Congress, Clinton tapped Leon Panetta, who chairs the House Budget Committee, as OMB director. Wall Street was represented by Robert Rubin as the head of the new National Economic Council in the White House, and Roger Altman, a Clinton college classmate, as Bentsen's deputy. Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, will be Panetta's deputy. The solid choices signaled Clinton's concern with the deficit and need to reassure business...
...Clinton shows scant need to surround himself with yes-men and -women. Panetta has been skeptical about the President-elect's oft promised middle-class tax cut, and Rivlin departs from Clinton orthodoxy with her suggestion that states should run public-works programs. Perhaps this will be a combative Administration after all. (See related story on page...