The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, December 10, 2002  

THE OLDSMOBILE ADMINISTRATION
Who’s Driving This Car?

On John Snow, to be nominated secretary of the Treasury: “assistant general counsel, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1972-73; . . . deputy assistant secretary for policy, plans and international affairs, DOT, 1973-74; assistant secretary for governmental affairs, DOT, 1974-75; deputy undersecretary, DOT, 1975-76; administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1976-77.”

On William H. Donaldson, to be nominated chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission: “a wealthy and powerful Wall Street executive who served in the administrations of Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.”


Cruising Midland, Texas

This may not be your father’s Oldsmobile, but each day the Bush presidency looks more and more like your father’s administration. Or someone’s father, anyway.

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