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NATION, Page 47American NotesPOLITICSRepublican Malted Milk
He may not have been the first choice -- or even the second
-- but last week Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter was
George Bush's final choice to become Republican national
chairman and replace the ailing Lee Atwater. Ever since former
drug czar William Bennett turned down the post last month,
claiming it might conflict with his lucrative speechmaking and
book-writing plans, the Administration has been floundering in
search of an acceptable party chieftain.
Bennett had been expected to bring some peppery conservative
seasoning to the 1992 campaign with an ideological offensive
against racial quotas. Yeutter's selection suggests that Bush
may have opted for blander fare. A former president of the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange and a U.S. trade representative in
the Reagan Administration, Yeutter, 60, has more experience
making pragmatic policy than plotting political strategy.
Groused a party official: "We needed strong garlic, and we got
malted milk."