News Analysis: Lessons of a Swift Exit. The Linda Chavez embarrassment, which seems to be treated by the press as a casualty of the foreshortened transition period and hasty vetting of candidates rather than a reflection on Dubya’s judgment or ideology, may yet “embolden
Democrats, unions and
environmentalists with other nominees
in their sights, particularly John
Ashcroft, the religious conservative
attorney general- designate, and Gale
A. Norton, Mr. Bush’s choice to run the
Interior Department.” I certainly hope so. New York Times