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...House veterans say Clinton must take steps early to prevent Hillary from being transformed into an unaccountable power center. "If Hillary is going to let herself be a visible yet undefined force in the West Wing," said a Bush Administration veteran, "then she is setting herself up to be Sununu- ized. Everybody who makes an appeal to Hillary and wins will leak it. And everybody who makes an appeal and loses will leak it too. Over time, that will be bad for Bill. They've got to define it so that everyone knows what her authority will...
...toward Baker that they do toward other key Cabinet members of the Reagan/Bush era. Baker was much less of an ideologue than many of the others (his views on abortion, for example, are still not certain). Therefore, the spite directed toward, for example, Edwin Meese III and John H. Sununu never really hit the same level with Baker. In addition, the international developments for which the State Department takes credit (deservedly or undeservedly) during the Bush presidency are ones which merit praise on both sides of the political spectrum...
...courtly bow more suited to a maitre d' than to the CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company. He doesn't hold "meetings" or give "interviews" but instead likes to "visit" with friends and colleagues. Such humility might seem a hazard in the job that got the better of John Sununu and Sam Skinner...
Bush called a series of Cabinet-level meetings of his Economic Policy Council, attended by a dozen Cabinet secretaries and other top advisers. They put forth several ideas for boosting the economy, but Brady and Sununu shot them down as economically unnecessary or politically risky. Frustrated, Housing Secretary Jack Kemp warned, "Mr. President, the American people will forgive us if we try a program and it fails, but they will not forgive...
Boskin increasingly clashed with Sununu over the President's sunny pronouncements on the economy. Sununu kept Boskin away from Bush until November 1991, when the economist threatened to resign in protest. Granted an audience, Boskin told the President that the economy was not recovering as quickly as it had from previous recessions because it was struggling under unprecedented burdens, including the huge debts left over from the Reagan era. Among the new hardships were the steep regulatory costs of the Clean Air Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Boskin later bluntly told Bush that he was unlikely...