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The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and All Things Considered,

p u n dits & plaudits

among many other outlets

Cabinet Fev

Broadening the Field

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G. C a l v i n Mackenzie (government) told the Voice of America

In a story distributed nationwide by the Associated Press.

that there was nothing u nusual i n the exodus of cabinet officers

Mitchell Family Professor or Economics Thomas Tietenberg

after Bill C linton s reelection I n fact. Mackenzie said the odd

weighed in on the value of the k111d of education Colby offers for

thing was that so many had stayed for C l inton 's entire first

future JOb markets. He told the wire service reporter that 1n his

term-most post-war cab111ets have seen at least 20 percent

field of expertise, environmentalism. practitioners need "a broad

more turnover i n their first four years. 'People are tired and

background and good problem-solving skills in add1t1on to a

burned out " Mackenzie said I n another 1nterv1ew with NPR

basic core of studies . "

Morning Ed1t1on host Bob Edwards. Mackenzie noted that he

Around the Rim

and the other members of a Twentieth Century Fund task force

S u i s h e n g Z h a o ( government) was 1nv1ted to Join the U . S .

on the pres1dent1al appointment process had made specific

Committee of t h e Council f o r Security Cooperation 1n t h e Asia

recommendations to grease the process Thei r recommenda­

Pac ific ( USCSCAP). The Council for Security Cooperation 1n

tions were presented i n a book. Obstacle Course. edited by

the Asia Pacific was establ ished i n 1 993 as a non-governmen­

Mackenzre, at a November press conference i n Washington

tal forum for multi lateral security dialogue. The U S committee

Asked by Bob Edwards what the Founding Fathers might have

is composed of representatives of the academic. business.

thou ght of the presidential appontment process circa 1 996.

government and policy and secu rity communities. A l l commit­

Mackenzie said, "That whirring noise you hear 1s some of them

tee members have to be nominated and approved by the

sp111ning 1n their graves "

executive committee of three people. Zhao was nominated by

Lo ing, Hi Mernor

Amos Jordan, the chair of the USCSAP and former u n der­

L. Sandy Maisel (government) shared some memones of his

secretary of state in the Reagan Adm in istration.

campaign for Congress with MSNBC reporter Dan Collins.

Money Talks

"Sandy Maisel

Anthony Corrado (government). an expert on campaign finance

hopeless congressional campaigns," Collins said . "Maisel's book,

is perhaps the nation's leading expert on

issues. gave more than 200 interviews to the press during the

From Obscurity to Oblivion, chronicles his own ill-fated 1 978 run

presidential election season. His expertise brought Bill Geist of

for the House 1n Maine's 1 st District. Unwisely. 1t seems. Maisel

CBS Sunday Morning to campus to film a November 3 feature on

ran as a liberal academic. 'I lost in the primary-bad ly,' Maisel

how much we pay for presidents. Among other things, Corrado

recalled. The would-be congressman spent about $ 1 8 .000 of his

told program viewers that Thomas Jefferson spent about $50 on

own money on the campaign-a tidy sum of 1 97 8 dollars for a

his election and that it would have been "unseem ly," in those

man who isn't wealthy. Maisel even wound up selling the farm to

days, to promote oneself for the job. Corrado also was quoted in

finance his campaign. Well, only part of the farm, actually. Maisel

Time, USA TODA Y and The New York Times and interviewed on

sold off 4 0 acres of land ('I kept the mule,' he says) . . .

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