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...pundits were already writing us off. They were saying we weren't ready for the big leagues. Gays, Zoe Baird, Kimba Wood. And then lately, Lord Owen on Bosnia and Colin Powell's retirement. Seemed like an unending streak of bad news...
...interview yesterday, Ell-wood said he is a candidate for the position of assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at HHS but declined to comment further...
...Based on Wood's initial reply, the Clinton people at first perceived no potential problem. Wood's supporters say she was later told that after White House officials learned of the baby-sitter's history, the main heat came from Capitol Hill. Administration officials counter that they hardly needed Senators to tell them that they had a political time bomb on their hands...
That still left the possibility that Clinton might look like he was shying away from Wood for insufficient cause. Wood's sympathizers claim that the White House tended to this problem with a press leak. When Wood had been asked by the White House if there was anything in her background that might be embarrassing to the President, she answered that while pursuing a master's degree at the London School of Economics, she trained for five days, without pay, as a Playboy Club bunny croupier. That information surfaced Saturday in the New York Times...
Burned once by his hasty pick of Zoe Baird, President Clinton awaited results of a full background check before announcing his near certain choice for U.S. Attorney General: New York Federal Judge Kimba Wood. Surprise! On Friday what should appear but another illegal-alien baby-sitter. Wood explained that when she hired the woman from Trinidad in 1986, it was not unlawful. "I made all required filings and payments," said Wood, and the baby-sitter became a legal resident in 1987. No matter. With a push from a jittery White House, Wood withdrew her name. (See related story on page...