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- WASHINGTON, Page 30The Democrats: Measuring the Drapes
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- By NANCY TRAVER/WASHINGTON
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- It's been a long time between drinks, but the Democrats
- are lining up at the bar. "Every Democrat between the ages of
- 25 and 50 in this city is sketching out new career scenarios,"
- says a senior Senate aide. "People who have been shut out since
- Jimmy Carter desperately want back in."
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- The scramble for the new Administration's 3,000 appointed
- jobs has already reached a fever pitch -- as has the inevitable
- speculation about candidates for the plum posts. For Defense
- Secretary, there is talk of a three-way race between House Armed
- Services Committee chairman Les Aspin, Oklahoma Congressman Dave
- McCurdy and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn.
- Retiring Colorado Senator Tim Wirth has been dubbed a possible
- Secretary of the Interior or Energy. Among the dozen or so names
- mentioned for Secretary of State, the leading candidate seems
- to be Warren Christopher, deputy secretary in the Carter
- Administration.
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- As the Democrats prepare to move into the power centers,
- Washington-area businesses are hoping for a trickle-down effect.
- "I just want to get my hands on Hillary's roots," gushes Robin
- Weir, Nancy Reagan's former hairdresser. To boost his chances,
- he sent his salon manager to California this week to have her
- hair done by Hillary Clinton's favorite stylist, Cristophe. Says
- Weir: "We want to get across to him that we know this town."
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- Local realtors are trumpeting the same message. "I have
- pinned on my office wall an article from the Washington Post,
- which has some of the possible candidates for jobs in a Clinton
- Administration," says Terri Robinson, one of many area brokers
- who have been contacted by potential Democratic home buyers. The
- town houses of Georgetown and Cleveland Park are getting a
- look-over, says Robinson, although many frugal Democrats may end
- up settling in the less pricey suburbs of Maryland and Virginia.
- One upscale piece of D.C. real estate that has already crossed
- party lines: the $2.2 million Tracy Place town house that was
- the scene of parties hosted by socialite Georgette Mosbacher,
- wife of former Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, has been
- sold to Democratic hostess Esther Coopersmith.
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- Bill Clinton may not have measured the Oval Office drapes
- yet, but his own office in Little Rock, Arkansas, is all but
- spoken for. Lieutenant Governor Jim Guy Tucker, who would become
- Governor if Clinton is elected, had already polished off his
- 1993 state budget and received visiting agency heads at the
- state capitol last week. Says Tucker, sounding like many veteran
- Washington Democrats: "It would be foolish to not be prepared."
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