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Tuesday, December 6, 1994
NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Rumors of Bentsen retiring buzzing throughout Cabinet
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentens is planning to resign early next year to return to Texas, administration officials said yesterday. The Cabinet departure would cost President Clinton one of his most respected policy-makers.
The administration officials, who all spoke on condition that their names not be used, said that Bentens has long wanted to return to Texas and believed that now was a good time given that Congress has finally passed the world trade agreement, the last unfinished economic business from Clinton's first two years in office.
These officials said that while Bentsen and Clinton have discussed Bentsen's desire to leave the Cabinet, no formal resignation letter has been submitted yet and
the exact timing was still in the air.
Speaking yesterday at the National Press Club, Bentsen sought to make light of the resignation rumors although he did not deny them.
"Paraphrasing Mark Twain, the news is premature. I will let you know," he promised the room full of journalists. "You will be among the first to know when it is news."
Rumors of Benths's imminent departure have swirled around Washington ever since he purchased a townhouse in Houston earlier this year for more than $1 million.
When he does leave the Cabinet, Bentsen, 73, said he doesn't plan to retire. "I think you rust out before you wear out," he said.
Robert Rubin, head of the president's National Economic Council for two years, is widely believed to be in line for Bentens's job.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The former chief of the White House travel office expects to be indicted on embezzlement charges. Yesterday, his attorney promised a strong defense in the case that has already embarrassed the Clinton administration and will generate congressional hearings.
Travel office head allegedly got a free ride
charge Dale with stealing $69,000 in money paid by news groups for their reporters' travel with the president.
Steven C. Tabackman, attorney for Billy R. Dale, who was fired in a purge of the travel office in May 1993, said federal prosecutors planned to ask a grand jury tomorrow or Friday to
An audit that month found the office kept sloppy records. But controversy began when it was learned initial complaints came from Catherine A. Cornellus, a 25-year-old distant cousin of President Clinton, who was assigned to the office and wanted to run it, and from Harry Thomason, a Hollywood producer and friend of Clinton's, who wanted travel-office business for his air-charter company. Five of those fired were rehired
elsewhere in government.
The firings already have been criticized in an internal report by then-White House chief of staff Mack McLarty and by Congress' General Accounting Office. The House Government Operations Committee intends to hold hearings next year.
The trial, which might not begin until June, could produce testimony from Hillary Rodham Clinton, who, according to the previous inquiries, was briefed about the travel office and once told a top White House aide to get Clinton people into the office.
New leader of Gay Task Force causing controversy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a lobbying group beset by recent budget and personnel problems, has chosen a leftist San Francisco health commissioner as its new executive director.
Melinda Paras, 41, was named yesterday by the task force's board to lead the 32,000-member civil rights and educational organization. Paras spent the past four months as the group's acting executive director after the previous officeholder returned to her old job as public policy director.
But even before Paras was offered the post permanently, she drew fire from gay and lesbian activists for her leftist political views and for her role as a leader of the Shanti Project, a San Francisco AIDS service organization.
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