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- <text id=91TT0131>
- <title>
- Jan. 21, 1991: American Notes:Politics
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 21, 1991 January 15:Deadline For War
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 47
- American Notes
- POLITICS
- Republican Malted Milk
- </hdr><body>
- <p> He may not 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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