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- THE WEEK, Page 10NATIONSome Old, Some New, Some Borrowed . . .
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- Clinton strains to finish building a Cabinet that "looks like
- America"
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- As he rounded out his cabinet on the day before Christmas,
- Bill Clinton proved how hard it is to please all of the people
- all of the time. First he ran afoul of women's organizations,
- which complained that females were underrepresented in Clinton's
- Cabinet. The criticism -- coming just as he named
- African-American Hazel O'Leary, 55, to be Energy Secretary --
- provoked an angry response from the President-elect, who accused
- women's groups of "playing quota games and math games." Clinton
- had barely finished fending off the feminists when some
- environmentalists inveighed against O'Leary, a utility executive
- Clinton had met only days earlier.
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- A day later, Clinton won better marks for the experience
- and depth of his foreign policy and defense team:
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- Secretary of State-designate Warren Christopher, 67, is
- the wise elder of the group, a colorless but painstaking
- negotiator who directs Clinton's tran sition and served as Jimmy
- Carter's Deputy Sec retary of State. Clinton named business
- executive Clifton Wharton, who is 66 and black, to be
- Christopher's deputy.
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- Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin, 54, is a former
- whiz kid from Robert McNamara's Pentagon. He earned a
- reputation on Capitol Hill as a Pentagon gadfly but is now one
- of Washington's wisest military hands.
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- National Security Adviser Tony Lake, 53, is a Mount
- Holyoke College professor who once worked in the Nixon National
- Security Council under Henry Kissinger. A conceptual thinker,
- Lake is expected to emerge as the architect of Clinton's foreign
- policy. Clinton named Washington lawyer Sandy Berger, another
- former Carter State Department official, to be Lake's deputy.
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- CIA Director-designate R. James Woolsey, 51, is a Rhodes
- scholar, a Bush conventional-arms negotiator and the most
- conservative of the group. Clinton also named Madeleine Albright
- to be delegate to the United Nations and announced that he would
- elevate the job to Cabinet rank.
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- On Christmas Eve, Clinton announced the last five:
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- Attorney General-designate Zoe Baird, 40, a legal counsel
- in the Carter White House, now a senior executive of the Aetna
- Life and Casualty Co.;
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- Secretary of the Interior-designate Bruce Babbitt, 54, a
- former Governor of Arizona;
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- Secretary of Agriculture-designate Mike Espy, 39, a
- Democratic Congressman from Mississippi;
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- Secretary of Transportation-designate Federico Pena, 45,
- a former mayor of Denver;
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- U.S. Trade Representative-designate Mickey Kantor, 53, the
- Los Angeles attorney who chaired Clinton's campaign.
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- For the benefit of the scorekeepers and quota wonks out
- there, here are the stats for the designated Cabinet: eight
- white males, four women, four African Americans, two Hispanics.
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