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- THE WEEK, Page 12NATIONLeaky Transition
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- Real appointments often get lost among the hot tips
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- 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.
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