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...Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Andy Card and Ann Veneman, the new Agriculture Secretary designate, all worked for Bush's father. Paul O'Neill, the Treasury designate, spent ten years as a budget whiz in Washington before working for International Paper and Alcoa. Mitch Daniels, the new budget czar, worked for Dick Lugar before going to Eli Lilly...
...four in the afternoon, Bush named three further nominees in quick succession. First, Ann Veneman, the former secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, was brought forward for the top job at the USDA. Veneman earned strong praise from California farmers' groups during her tenure in state office...
Reform Hearings. President Ford's approach will be a cautious one. He has selected John G. Veneman, a former Under Secretary of HEW and now an aide to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, to pull together the choices for reform. Then Rockefeller will hold a series of regional hearings. Says Ford: "There is an awful lot of wisdom out in the country on what is right and what is wrong about welfare...
...made little impact on G.O.P. stalwarts throughout the country. "I don't see how he can change the habits of 30 years," says Robert J. Huber, an industrialist and former state senator from Michigan. Indeed, Rockefeller recently alienated West Coast conservatives by naming to his staff John Veneman, a liberal Californian who once served as Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Notes a Reagan aide: "The symbolism of the Veneman appointment goes against the grain of any Rockefeller rapprochement with the right...
...personnel, Richardson wisely retained Under Secretary John Veneman, Finch's best appointment, a health and welfare expert enjoying considerable respect on Capitol Hill. Otherwise, Richardson has transformed the departmental hierarchy. With the departure of James Farmer, the only black in the department's upper reaches, and outspoken Education Commissioner James Allen Jr., HEW has lost important symbols of social passion. But two of his appointees, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Laurence Lynn Jr. and the education commissioner, Sidney Marland Jr., have brought a new level of expertise and technocratic brilliance...