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Ambassador Cleland?
Posted at: Friday, March 5, 2004, 01:36 AM
Everybody’s new favorite political pastime, it seems, is speculating about whom John Kerry will choose for his running mate. But Chuck Todd, editor of the National Journal’s Hotline Web site, has taken it a step further, envisioning a Kerry Cabinet. For one of Kerry’s stalwart friends, former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, Todd proposes the U.N. ambassadorship — a post that was occupied by another Georgian, Andrew Young, during President Jimmy Carter’s administration, when Cleland was head of the Veterans Administration.
“Cleland’s done the veterans gig before, and he didn’t necessarily make a lot of friends when he did it,” Todd wrote. “But he deserves something good from Kerry because he’s such a campaign workhorse.”
— Staff writer Matthew C. Quinn and wire services.
