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Secretary of State Madeleine Albright charmed Jesse Helms and breezed through the Senate last week, 99 to 0. So did Bill Cohen, the new Pentagon chief, who until a few weeks ago was a Republican Senator. That about wraps it up for the easy Clinton nominations. The White House parlor...
Clinton has already fought for Herman once. AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney opposed her nomination last fall, favoring former Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford instead. Jesse Jackson personally lobbied Sweeney on Herman's behalf, but that isn't what changed the labor chief's mind; after a bruising role in getting...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Assuring President Clinton that the United Nations will move boldly to reform its bureaucracy, new Secretary-General Kofi Annan met with Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and other U.S. leaders in hopes of convincing Congress to pay some $1 billion in back dues to the organization. Clinton...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: On a 99-0 vote, the Senate unanimously confirmed Madeleine Albright as Secretary of State. Expected to be sworn in Thursday, Albright will be the highest-ranking woman to serve in any federal government post and the first to serve as the President?s chief diplomat. Republican senators...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bill Clinton had given a lot of thought to the fact that he was about to give not just his own celebratory second Inauguration speech, but the final such address of the millennium. Looking for a way to invoke the kind of Big Ideas that millennial thinking seems...