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...inside the Executive Branch. Clinton holdovers, it warned, were "seeking to box the Bush Administration into a corner where it will have to choose between a bad deal and international embarrassment. Please do not let this happen." The Senators took the threat seriously. Nebraska's Chuck Hagel fired a memo to Deputy Secretary of State-designate Richard Armitage: "We need to get control of this...
...lobbyists made sure it wouldn't happen. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman touted the carbon-dioxide limits on CNN and assured other countries that Bush was serious about them. Behind the scenes, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill argued for an even bigger push, telling Bush in a Feb. 27 memo that the main problem with the as-yet-unratified global-warming treaty was that it didn't go far enough. While O'Neill stopped short of endorsing a cap on carbon-dioxide emissions, Bush aides were worried about green creep...
After returning from a meeting with the environmental ministers of the G-8 industrialized nations this month, EPA administrator Christie Whitman wrote a private memo to President Bush informing him that the U.S. has a credibility problem when it comes to climate change. "The World Community," wrote Whitman on March 6, "[is] all convinced of the seriousness of this issues and the need to act now." She "strongly recommended" that Bush "recognize that global warming is a real and serious issues" and said "we need to appear engaged...
Said Krishnamurthy, "Even if Summers didn't write the memo himself, it seems like he did sign it, indicating his awareness of and responsibility for the content...
...friends point to Summers' loyalty when asked why he didn't admit to not writing the memo...