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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:45:00 EST
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- From: waiting for the wolves <SWEDE@DRYCAS.BITNET>
- Subject: appointment strategies
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- Ellen:
- >In fact, I can't think of any >one< strategy he is using. He is not
- >picking people by mere ideology alone. He is not making "token" racial
- >and gender selections. He is not picking insiders over outsiders, or
- >vice versa. He seems to be picking, for the most part, people whom he
- >can personally work well with.
-
- I read an interesting perspective in an opinion column last sunday (can't
- remember who wrote it - was at my mum's house when I read it over). It
- suggested that Clinton has been making some appointments in order to make
- friends out of potential enemies. That is, by appointing Bentsen as
- Treasury Secretary, Leon Panetta as Budget Director, and Les Aspin as
- Defense Secretary, among others, Clinton is removing from Congress some
- formidable obstacles for his plans. Each of these three men have their
- areas of disagreement with Clinton (Panetta comes to mind, since he places
- more importance on deficit reduction than Clinton apparantly does, and
- Aspin disagrees with some aspects of Clinton's defense priorities), and
- controlled key committee leadership positions. By getting them on his team,
- while they may still disagree with him and will try to steer his ideas more
- their way, they will be championing his programs, rather than fighting
- against them. Their replacements on their committees won't have the same
- influence as they did, at least, not right away.
-
- Certainly, there's a lot in what you suggest, that he's picking people he
- can work well with. He'd be a fool if he didn't. But he's also showing some
- canny strategic thinking, as well.
-
- >Ellen
-
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