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- Feb. 01, 1993: One Down, 13 Sworn
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- 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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- <body>
- <p>The new Cabinet lacks an Attorney General after Zoe Baird withdraws
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- <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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- </body>
- </article>
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