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- <title>
- Sep. 09, 1991: Calling Mr. Clean
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 09, 1991 Power Vacuum
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Calling Mr. Clean
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Scandal-plagued corporations and government agencies have
- a surefire formula for riding out the storm: Find someone with
- an unimpeachable reputation to whip the place back into shape.
- Beleaguered Salomon Brothers turned to superinvestor Warren
- Buffet. A few other high-profile "fixers":
- </p>
- <p> Nicholas Katzenbach, U.S. Attorney General 1965-66
- </p>
- <p>-- Succeeded Clark Clifford last month as head of First
- American Bank shares, which was covertly controlled by B.C.C.I.,
- the shady multinational corporation accused of money laundering
- and supporting terrorists.
- </p>
- <p>-- Plans to stay until "the bank is on top of its
- problems."
- </p>
- <p> Howard Baker, U.S. Senator 1967-85
- </p>
- <p>-- Named as Reagan's chief of staff in February 1987 when
- Don Regan was held responsible for the "chaos" in the White
- House after the Iran-contra revelations.
- </p>
- <p>-- Stayed 16 months.
- </p>
- <p> William Ruckelshaus, Director of the Environmental
- Protection Agency 1970-73
- </p>
- <p>-- Returned to the EPA in May 1983 after Reagan-era
- administrators were accused of delaying the cleanup of the
- nation's hazardous-waste sites.
- </p>
- <p>-- Stayed 20 months.
- </p>
- <p> Frank Carlucci, Deputy Secretary of Defense 1981-82
- </p>
- <p>-- Replaced John Poindexter in January 1987 as Reagan's
- National Security Adviser during the Iran-contra scandal.
- </p>
- <p>-- Stayed 11 months.
- </p>
- <p> Claudius I, scholar and writer
- </p>
- <p>-- Drafted as Roman emperor in A.D. 41 after the
- assassination of his depraved nephew Caligula; strengthened
- Rome's legal system.
- </p>
- <p>-- Poisoned after 13 years.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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