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...Clayton Yeutter, Atwater's successor as chair of the Republican National Committee, recalled Atwater as "one of the nation's most outstanding political minds...
...have been the first choice -- or even the second -- but last week Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter was George Bush's final choice to become Republican national chairman and replace the ailing Lee Atwater. Ever since former drug czar William Bennett turned down the post last month, claiming it might conflict with his lucrative speechmaking and book-writing plans, the Administration has been floundering in search of an acceptable party chieftain...
Bennett had been expected to bring some peppery conservative seasoning to the 1992 campaign with an ideological offensive against racial quotas. Yeutter's selection suggests that Bush may have opted for blander fare. A former president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and a U.S. trade representative in the Reagan Administration, Yeutter, 60, has more experience making pragmatic policy than plotting political strategy. Groused a party official: "We needed strong garlic, and we got malted milk...
...recent months, Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter Jr., Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan and some in Congress have suggested amending the law and letting the God Squad make the toughest calls. That would be the effective demise of the act. The Senate last week defeated a measure that would have empowered the God Squad to settle the dispute over timbering the ancient forests. But the broader question remains. Ruling on a species' fate has eternal consequences. A political appointee's vision dims beyond the next election. Matters of such gravity ought to reflect society's broadest interests. Biologists, environmentalists, theologians, historians...
...billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Even before he first ran for office, Kerrey supported amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers. These positions have not won much favor among generally conservative Nebraskans. Nor did his role at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing, where Kerrey so aggressively upbraided Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter (who is from his home state) that the chairman, Vermont's Patrick Leahy, whispered in Kerrey's ear, "We usually leave our grenades in the anteroom...