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...Thursday, less than 48 hours after Chavez withdrew from consideration under a firestorm of allegations that she'd harbored an illegal immigrant, the President-elect named Elaine Chao as his new nominee to head the Labor Department. Bush also announced Robert Zoellick, a veteran of Republican State and Treasury Departments, as his nominee for the post of U.S. trade representative, also a Cabinet position...
...most distinctive thing about the Bush team's ideology--it's lack of any to speak of. Aside from his notably conservative running mate, Dick Cheney, nearly everybody on most of the Bush short lists for a top position--from logistics-whiz Joe Allbaugh to international-law consultant Robert Zoellick--is an experienced Republican pragmatist. Yet Bush's aides have been sensitive to the conservative voices in the party. You can see it in the debate over how Bush is assembling--perhaps the word is reassembling--a foreign policy team...
Barnes counted Alan B. Hubbard, who met Bush at HBS and is now a wealthy entrepreneur in Indianapolis; Lawrence Lindsay, a former Harvard economics professor; and Bob Zoellick, who holds dual graduate degrees from the University, among Bush's top advisers...
...foreign affairs, Bush has turned to Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice, a tough-minded Russia scholar who worked for his dad. Her group mixes Reagan-era hard liners with Bush veterans Paul Wolfowitz and Robert Zoellick, who is regarded as suspect by conservatives because of his long association with the ever pragmatic James Baker...
...educated to want. According to surveys, Americans' top five foreign concerns are stopping the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S., protecting American jobs, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, controlling illegal immigration and securing adequate energy supplies. "That's a pretty good common-sense position," says Zoellick. "If you add stability with your allies, you're pretty much done...