STALLED OUT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100440002-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 18, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEAR] NEW REPUBLIC
ON PAGE? 18 OCTOBER 1980
9 Politics
Stalled Out
Ronald Reagan's top command is confident enough of
the Republican candidate's chances of winning on
November 4 to have begun drawing up Cabinet lists.
The following is the current consensus of Reagan's
advisers. It's by no means final, is still subject to jockey-
ing among Cabinet contenders, and has not been sub-
jected to a concerted clearance process, but I'm told the
list has been discussed with Reagan himself. It is:
Secretary of State-George P. Shultz, president of
the Bechtel Corporation, former secretary of labor a nd
the treasury and director of the Office of Management
and Budget.
Secretary of Defense-General Alexander Haig,
president of United Technologies Corporation, former
NATO commander'and White House chief of staff
under Richard Nixon.
Secretary of Treasury-William Simon, who held
the same job under President Ford and would like
something better under Reagan. If he refuses, Alan
Greenspan, Ford's former chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisers and currently Reagan's top eco-
nomic adviser, is in line for the job.
Attorney General-William French Smith, senior
partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher, and more importantly, Reagan's personal
attorney.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development-
Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania, Reagan's
1976 vice presidential running mate. Schweiker also
has the option of taking Health and Human Services. If
he does, HUD will go to Representative Thomas
Evans, the conservative congressman from Delaware.
Secretary of Commerce-Bill Brock, currently chair-
man of the Republican National Committee.
Secretary of Transportation-Drew Lewis, a Phila-
delphia industrialist and former Pennsylvania GOP
chairman, currently the Reagan campaign's liaison
man at the RNC.
Other Cabinet jobs-Agriculture, Labor, Education
(which Reagan wants to abolish), Energy, and Interior
are still question marks. Probably Reagan will want to
hunt up a black or a Hispanic for one of these jobs,
those groups being so far unrepresented in the current
Reagan master list.
There is one woman slated for Cabinet rank-Anne
Armstrong, former White House adviser and ambas-
sador to Great Britain under Ford, who would become
US ambassador to the United Nations under Reagan.
Other top jobs would be parceled out as follows:
CIA director-William Casey, a wartime OSS man,
former SEC chairman, and Eximbank director, now
Reagan's campaign manager.
Office of Management and Budget-Gerald R.
Ford, who asked for the OMB responsibility during
the failed negotiations to make hi m Reagan's vice presi-
dential candidate, will be offered the job. If he refuses,
it would go to either former HEW secretary Caspar
Weinberger or Greenspan.
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Morton Kondracke
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