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- THE WEEK, Page 17NATIONTrotting Out the Team
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- Lloyd Bentsen is said to be Clinton's first choice for Treasury
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- A Yuletide flurry of cherry statistics has done nothing to
- shake Bill Clinton's focus on the U.S. economy as his top
- priority. The President-elect's first major appointments,
- expected this week, will be his economic team. Clinton's choice
- for Treasury Secretary, aides say, is Lloyd Bentsen, the Senate
- Finance Committee chairman. The senior Senator from Texas, who
- was nominated for Vice President in 1988, is seen as having the
- stature and experience to steer Clinton's economic plan through
- Congress. Investment banker Roger Altman, a Treasury official in
- the Carter Administration, is said to be the leading contender
- for deputy secretary.
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- Top spot in the new Economic Security Council is likely to
- go to investment banker Robert Rubin or Harvard lecturer and
- transition-team adviser Robert Reich, who is also a candidate
- for head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Clinton wants to
- get the team in place before the economic retreat scheduled for
- Dec. 14-15 in Little Rock.
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