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...Donna Shalala Health and Human Services...
Clinton was still able to preside Friday morning at a mass swearing-in ceremony for the other 13 members of his Cabinet, plus three more top aides. Even those who had faced tough questioning in confirmation hearings -- Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt -- were confirmed with barely a murmur of opposition. A still closer presidential assistant also is moving into new quarters. Hillary Clinton became the first First Lady to line up an office in the executive West Wing of the White House; her husband's aides said she would be an important adviser...
Those words reflect the arrogance of newfound power, and they are not the only example displayed by the Clinton Administration. Moynihan is a consummate gentleman, and he is eager to help. In that spirit he privately counseled Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala (whom he has known for years) before her confirmation hearings: "We told her the committee wanted to hear about welfare and Social Security. All we got was a few sentences. It was kind of incredible." And it became a bit ugly -- in the senatorial sense, that is. Shalala told the committee that the Children's Defense...
...should go forward" with welfare reform, Moynihan insists, and he is displeased with Shalala's contention that health care comes first. "Believe it or not," says Moynihan, "we can do two things at the same time. And this is something we'd better do." Moynihan believes "back- burnering" welfare reform could become Clinton's "very own 'Read my lips' debacle. When the President seemed to be in trouble near the end of the campaign, he pulled out those 'We will end welfare as we know it' commercials," says Moynihan. "That single promise drove the numbers in his favor all along...
...Shalala's confirmation hearing, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted that "this week there has been rather a clatter of campaign promises being tossed out the window." Asked at a press conference whether he considered any campaign promise to be "ironclad," Clinton replied that he must "respond to changing circumstances." (See cover stories, beginning on page...