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<text id=89TT0966>
<title>
Apr. 10, 1989: American Notes:The White House
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Apr. 10, 1989 The New USSR
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 45
American Notes
THE WHITE HOUSE
How High an Office?
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<p> George Bush supports random drug testing in the workplace,
including the workplace where he's the boss. The Administration
plans to conduct random urinalysis among more than 80% of the
1,850 employees in the Executive Office of the President, which
includes the White House staff, the Office of Management and
Budget, the National Security Council and other agencies.
</p>
<p> Thirty EOP workers have reluctantly filed a class-action
suit seeking to stop the tests, contending that the Government
has no right to test them without reason to suspect them of drug
use. Though there is little evidence of widespread drug abuse
among Executive Office workers, their image was not helped by
the disclosure last week that two White House guards were fired
and one resigned last May after an investigation into
allegations of cocaine use among members of the Secret Service's
uniformed division. Two NSC clerks were also relieved of their
duties. The testing is necessary, says White House spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater, because the Administration must offer
"leadership in providing random drug testing as a means of
ensuring a clean workplace."
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</body>
</article>
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