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THE WEEK, Page 10NATIONSome Old, Some New, Some Borrowed . . .
Clinton strains to finish building a Cabinet that "looks like
America"
As he rounded out his cabinet on the day before Christmas,
Bill Clinton proved how hard it is to please all of the people
all of the time. First he ran afoul of women's organizations,
which complained that females were underrepresented in Clinton's
Cabinet. The criticism -- coming just as he named
African-American Hazel O'Leary, 55, to be Energy Secretary --
provoked an angry response from the President-elect, who accused
women's groups of "playing quota games and math games." Clinton
had barely finished fending off the feminists when some
environmentalists inveighed against O'Leary, a utility executive
Clinton had met only days earlier.
A day later, Clinton won better marks for the experience
and depth of his foreign policy and defense team:
Secretary of State-designate Warren Christopher, 67, is
the wise elder of the group, a colorless but painstaking
negotiator who directs Clinton's tran sition and served as Jimmy
Carter's Deputy Sec retary of State. Clinton named business
executive Clifton Wharton, who is 66 and black, to be
Christopher's deputy.
Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin, 54, is a former
whiz kid from Robert McNamara's Pentagon. He earned a
reputation on Capitol Hill as a Pentagon gadfly but is now one
of Washington's wisest military hands.
National Security Adviser Tony Lake, 53, is a Mount
Holyoke College professor who once worked in the Nixon National
Security Council under Henry Kissinger. A conceptual thinker,
Lake is expected to emerge as the architect of Clinton's foreign
policy. Clinton named Washington lawyer Sandy Berger, another
former Carter State Department official, to be Lake's deputy.
CIA Director-designate R. James Woolsey, 51, is a Rhodes
scholar, a Bush conventional-arms negotiator and the most
conservative of the group. Clinton also named Madeleine Albright
to be delegate to the United Nations and announced that he would
elevate the job to Cabinet rank.
On Christmas Eve, Clinton announced the last five:
Attorney General-designate Zoe Baird, 40, a legal counsel
in the Carter White House, now a senior executive of the Aetna
Life and Casualty Co.;
Secretary of the Interior-designate Bruce Babbitt, 54, a
former Governor of Arizona;
Secretary of Agriculture-designate Mike Espy, 39, a
Democratic Congressman from Mississippi;
Secretary of Transportation-designate Federico Pena, 45,
a former mayor of Denver;
U.S. Trade Representative-designate Mickey Kantor, 53, the
Los Angeles attorney who chaired Clinton's campaign.
For the benefit of the scorekeepers and quota wonks out
there, here are the stats for the designated Cabinet: eight
white males, four women, four African Americans, two Hispanics.