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NATION, Page 45American NotesTHE WHITE HOUSEHow High an Office?
George Bush supports random drug testing in the workplace,
including the workplace where he's the boss. The Administration
plans to conduct random urinalysis among more than 80% of the 1,850
employees in the Executive Office of the President, which includes
the White House staff, the Office of Management and Budget, the
National Security Council and other agencies.
Thirty EOP workers have reluctantly filed a class-action suit
seeking to stop the tests, contending that the Government has no
right to test them without reason to suspect them of drug use.
Though there is little evidence of widespread drug abuse among
Executive Office workers, their image was not helped by the
disclosure last week that two White House guards were fired and one
resigned last May after an investigation into allegations of
cocaine use among members of the Secret Service's uniformed
division. Two NSC clerks were also relieved of their duties. The
testing is necessary, says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater,
because the Administration must offer "leadership in providing
random drug testing as a means of ensuring a clean workplace."