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<text id=93TT0928>
<title>
Jan. 25, 1993: Ready, Set, Lapse
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
NATION, Page 17
Ready, Set, Lapse
</hdr>
<body>
<p>Some pre-Inaugural stumbles
</p>
<p> If Bill Clinton wants his top officials to be, in Dwight
Eisenhower's famous words, "clean as a hound's tooth," he'd
better start handing out the toothpaste.
</p>
<p> A little slow on the ethical uptake
</p>
<p> Commerce Secretary-designate Ronald Brown was all set to
be the guest of honor at a lavish Kennedy Center gala for which a
group of corporations were reportedly asked to ante up $10,000
apiece. Among them were Anheuser-Busch, J.C. Penney and
PepsiCo. Brown apparently failed to see any prospective conflict
of interest, until the press and Clinton himself thought
otherwise. Brown canceled out.
</p>
<p> Never ask a lawyer for legal advice
</p>
<p> Zoe Baird, Attorney General-designate of all things, had
employed two undocumented Peruvian aliens as household workers
and failed to pay Social Security taxes on their salaries. To
her credit, Baird disclosed this to Clinton before her
appointment and to the FBI during its investigation. Her husband
Paul Gewirtz, a Yale law professor, blamed the mess on bad legal
advice, and the couple paid nearly $16,000 in taxes, penalties
and interest.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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