security team, I said that, instead of taking in all the Haitians who could survive the voyage to America, we would beef up our official presence in Haiti and speed up asylum claims there.In the meantime, for safety reasons
oil paintings, we would continue to stop the boats and return thepassengers. Ironically, while human rights groups criticized the announcement, and the pcharacterized it as going back on my campaign pledge, President Aristide supported my position. He knew we would bring more Haitians to the United States than the Bush administration had, and he didn?t want his people to
oil painting drown. On January 8, I flew to Austin, Texas, where I had lived and worked for McGovern more thatwenty years earlier. After a reunion lunch with old friends from those days at Scholtz?s BeeGarden, I held my first meeting since the election with a foreign leader, Mexico?s president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Salinas was deeply committed to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he had negotiated with President Bush. We were hosted by mylongtime friend Governor Ann Richards, who was also a big supporter of NAFTA. I wanted to meet with Salinas
china oil paintingearly to make it clear that I cared about Mexico?sstrengthen the treaty, and for greater cooperation against narco-trafficking. On the thirteenth, my nominee for attorney general, Zo? Baird, got into hot water when it came out that she had employed two illegal immigrants as household help and had paid the employer?s portion of Social Security taxes on them only recently, when she came into consideration for the Justice post. The employment of illegal immigrants was not that uncommon then, but it was a particular problem for Zo? because the attorney general oversees the Immigration and Naturalization Service. With Zo霋s early confirmation unlikelythe incumbent assistant attorney general for the civil division, Stuart Gerson, would serve asacting attorney general. We also sent Webb Hubbell, the associate attorney general?Over the next two days,
led interior light we announced several more White House staff appointments. BesidesGeorge Stephanopoulos as communications director, I named Dee Dee Myers the first femaWhite House press secretary; put Eli Segal in charge of creatingdirector of public liaison. I was bringing several people up from Arkansas: Bruce Lindsey would handle personnel, including appointments to boards and commissions; Carol Rasco would be my assistant for domestic policy; Nancy Hernreich, my scheduler in the governor?office, would oversee Oval Office operations, with an office just outside mine; DavMansion administrator, came to work in the White House; and my lifelong friend Vince Foster agreed to come to the counsel?s office. Among those who didn?t come out of the campaign were my choice for White House c
led street lightounsBernie Nussbaum, Hillary?s colleague on the 1974 Nixon impeachment inquiry staff;Magaziner, my Oxford classmate, who would work with us on health-care reform; HowarPaster, an experienced Washington lobbyist, who would manage our congressional relations; John Podesta, an old friend from the Duffey campaign, as staff secretary; Katie McGinty, Al Gore?s choice for our environmental policy person; and Betty Currie, Warren Christophersecretary in the transition, who would do the same job for me. Andrew Friendly, a young Washington, D.C., native would be the President?s aide, going with me to every appointment and on every trip, making sure I read my briefing paper, and keeping in touch with the White
