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THE WEEK, Page 12NATIONLeaky Transition
Real appointments often get lost among the hot tips
If the transition is any omen, the Clinton Administration
may become the leakiest ever. Cabinet appointments have almost
all been so authoritatively predicted in advance that the actual
announcements are far overshadowed by the next round of hot
tips. On Thursday, Clinton named Henry Cisneros, former mayor of
San Antonio, Texas, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, and Jesse Brown, a wounded Vietnam veteran, to be
Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Their appointments were only the
No. 3 news item out of Little Rock that day. No. 1: Wisconsin
Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services
Committee, will be named Secretary of Defense this week. No. 2:
Clinton has settled on Richard Riley, former Governor of South
Carolina, as Secretary of Education, instead of Johnnetta Cole
(or so say the leakers). That indicates the President-elect is
shying away from people who might face tough confirmation
hearings. Conservatives have tried to link Cole, head of
Atlanta's Spelman College, to pro-Palestinian and pro-Cuban
groups. Retiring Colorado Senator Timothy Wirth is said to have
lost his chance to be Secretary of Energy because confirmation
questioners might challenge his associations with savings and
loans in his state.