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- NATION, Page 47American NotesPOLITICSRepublican Malted Milk
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- 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.
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- 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."
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