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- <text id=93TT0928>
- <title>
- Jan. 25, 1993: Ready, Set, Lapse
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 17
- Ready, Set, Lapse
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Some pre-Inaugural stumbles
- </p>
- <p> If Bill Clinton wants his top officials to be, in Dwight
- Eisenhower's famous words, "clean as a hound's tooth," he'd
- better start handing out the toothpaste.
- </p>
- <p> A little slow on the ethical uptake
- </p>
- <p> Commerce Secretary-designate Ronald Brown was all set to
- be the guest of honor at a lavish Kennedy Center gala for which a
- group of corporations were reportedly asked to ante up $10,000
- apiece. Among them were Anheuser-Busch, J.C. Penney and
- PepsiCo. Brown apparently failed to see any prospective conflict
- of interest, until the press and Clinton himself thought
- otherwise. Brown canceled out.
- </p>
- <p> Never ask a lawyer for legal advice
- </p>
- <p> Zoe Baird, Attorney General-designate of all things, had
- employed two undocumented Peruvian aliens as household workers
- and failed to pay Social Security taxes on their salaries. To
- her credit, Baird disclosed this to Clinton before her
- appointment and to the FBI during its investigation. Her husband
- Paul Gewirtz, a Yale law professor, blamed the mess on bad legal
- advice, and the couple paid nearly $16,000 in taxes, penalties
- and interest.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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