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...will now be the cheerleader -- not leader -- of the main health-care initiative. In October, Leon Panetta, the White House chief of staff, ordered that control of the reforms be turned over to Robert Rubin and Carol Rasco, the President's top in-house economic and domestic-policy advisers. White House officials, however, insist that the downgrading and reshuffling of the agenda does not reflect badly on Mrs. Clinton. As a senior official explained last week, Panetta's decision "was less about Hillary than Ira," as in Ira Magaziner, the aide who masterminded the Clinton plan and whose manner alienated...
...Jerry Rubin's death, following Abbie Hoffman's five years ago, means only six members now remain of the Chicago Eight, the group of leftists who were famously tried for conspiring to disrupt the 1968 Democratic Convention. As for the living...
Confirming rampant rumors that he was headed to Houston, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen resigned today. Named to replace him was longtime Wall Streeter and Clinton economic advisor Robert Rubin. Bentsen said he wanted to return to Texas to spend more time with his children and grandchildren and "return to the private sector . . . while I still had a spring in my step." Bentsen -- who leaves in two weeks -- served in the Senate for 22 years and ran as vice president in 1988 on the ticket headed by Michael Dukakis.His replacement, currently head of Clinton's National Economic Council, spent nearly three...
FINANCIAL DIRECTOR: Daniel M. Rubin...
...Bentsen, 73, will resign early next year, leaving the Clinton Administration without one of its most experienced and highly-regarded policy makers. Bentsen, however, took a page from the Mark Twain playbook, telling reporters that reports of his departure were "premature." Leading the pack of talked-about replacements: Robert Rubin, head of Clinton's National Economic Council and the former co-chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says Bentsen has decided to quit "for a lot of reasons. First, he's getting on. The timing coincides with what would have been the end of his Senate...