IF REAGAN WINS

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• Publication Date: October 5, 1980
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THE WASHINGTON POST
PARADE MAGAZINE
5 October 1980
PARADE'S. SPECIAL
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e2g a "Reagan is
. `''
;'::'elected Presi-
-dent in the forthcoming election,.
.whom will he appoint to the top
Cabinet and agency positions? . ` ;
The guessing game is in full
stride. Mentioned frequently for
Secretary of State is George P.
Shultz, 59, who served under
Richard Nixon as Secretary of
Tabor,-'Director of the Office of
Management and Budget; and =
Secretary of the Treasury. Cur-
rently a vice chairman of
Bechtel Inc. in California, a
director of J.P. Morgan & Co.
and other corporations, Shultz .
:.was, educated at Princeton as an
undergraduate, earned his
,Ph.D. In industrial economics at
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and was dean of the
Graduate School of Bua'iness at
the,Uilivarsityof Chicago:
Shultz is held in high regard
by Valery Giscard d'Estaing of .'.
France and Helmut Schmidt of
West Germany, both"of whom
.reportedly. regard Jimmy Carter
as appallingl, indecisive and
Reagan as dangerously inexpe-
,rienced,_ Shultz would be wel~r.
jcomed and respected abroad.
Another. possibility as ,. :.. _. ;:
Secretary of State is Henry
"Scoop" Jackson, Democratic
U.S. Senator from Washington.
.The rumor is that Reagan will:?
,offer Jackson the position in an
effort to form a truly bipartisan
.Cabinet, including the best men'
.he can get.regardless of party',,
affiliation. Jackson, 68,.a
-Senator since 1952, is a staunch
conservative in foreign policy
and a veteran anti-Communist::`,
a
by LLOYD SHEARER
A third name in the Secretary
.of State sweepstakes belongs to
William J. Casey, 67, manager
of Reagan's campaign. Casey . ,
served as chairman of the Secu- I East situation really is,
rities and Exchange Commis- Gen. Alexander Haig, who
son under Richard Nixon and helped engineer President
as a chief 'intelligence agent in Ford's pardon of Richard Nix-
,the Office of'Strategic Services In 'l on, has also been mentioned as
World War II.`
Regardless of whom Reagan
selects as his State Department
chief if elected, he will surely
.appoint Richard Allen as his Na-
:ttonal Security Council adviser.
Allen worked for Nixon iri Na-
tional Security until Henry
Kissinger allegedly maneuvered
him into resigning. Allen is a _
friend of Seymour Aersh,
the
former New York Times Pulitzer who runs the Justice Depart- I
Prize-winning reporter, and he ii ment. Reagan's lawyer for the
may have had access to Hersh's past 17 years has been William
unfinished biography of Kis - French Smith, 63, one of the
singer-a source which might senior partners of Gibson, Dunn
well prevent Reagan from ap- & Crutcher, a prominent Los }
pointing Kissinger to any vital Angeles law firm. Smith is a
position or mission. trustee of the Ronald Reagan
Reagan has a plethora of com-..' Trust, a personal family friend
petent candidates for Secretary. and tax-adviser, and a shrewd,
of the Treasury. The two leading personable Republican who un- '
lights at this writing are . I doubtedly can have the job if he
William Simon, 52, who served wants it. ?
as Shultz's Deputy Secretary of No matter how and with
the Treasury under Nixon and whom he structures his Cabinet, j
later as Gerald Ford's Secretary Ronald Reagan will retain, as his
of the Treasury; and Caspar closest adviser in all matters his
Weinberger, 63,? HEW Secretary 1 wife Nancy. His faith in her
under' Nixon and Governor judgment of people, her assess-
Reagan's Director of Finance. '
In California.
John Connally 'is another
former Secretary of the
Treasury who could easily hold'
STAT
Secretary of Defense, which is
probably why he recently made
his first tour of Israel to see per-
sonally how perilous the Middle,
a possible Secretary of Defense.
But Haig is recovering from
coronary-bypass surgery, and iti
is more likely that Reagan {rill
offer him the directorship of the4
Central Intelligence Agency and
the other intelligence.
establishments.
ne o the most important
positions in any Presidential
Cabinet is the Attorney General
ment of situations, her advice
on which course of action to .
pursue remains steadfast and
inviolate. If Reagan obtains the '
Presidential mantle, it is she
down the same job in a Reagan ~ who will help direct his wearing
Cabinet. Connally, however, of it..
-seems slated to become
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