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<text id=93TT2366>
<title>
Feb. 01, 1993: One Down, 13 Sworn
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
NATION, Page 17
One Down, 13 Sworn
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<p>The new Cabinet lacks an Attorney General after Zoe Baird withdraws
</p>
<p> It took roughly 36 hours for the Clinton Administration to
hit a snag. Zoe Baird had left a tough Senate confirmation
hearing at 9:30 p.m. Thursday insisting she would not withdraw
her name as Attorney General-designate. By midnight she had
changed her mind: criticisms of her admittedly illegal hiring of
undocumented Peruvians as servants had grown quite heated, and
presidential support had turned decidedly lukewarm. In an
exchange of letters released by the White House at 1:22 a.m.
Friday, Bill Clinton accepted her pullout "with sadness."
Feminist groups immediately began pressing Clinton to name
another woman to the job, but a spokesman said the President
would not necessarily do so.
</p>
<p> Clinton was still able to preside Friday morning at a mass
swearing-in ceremony for the other 13 members of his Cabinet,
plus three more top aides. Even those who had faced tough
questioning in confirmation hearings--Secretary of Health and
Human Services Donna Shalala, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt--were confirmed with barely a murmur of opposition. A still
closer presidential assistant also is moving into new quarters.
Hillary Clinton became the first First Lady to line up an office
in the executive West Wing of the White House; her husband's
aides said she would be an important adviser on domestic policy.
First job: taking charge of the task force shaping health-care
proposals.
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