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Article: Foster follies. (abortion politics, poor White House preparation jeopardize Surgeon General nomination of Henry Foster)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- February 20, 1995
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ROBERT BORK, JOHN TOWER, CLARENCE Thomas, Zod Baird, Lani Guinier. They belong to a special branch of Washingtonology: the presidential appointment turned fiasco. Henry Foster, President Bill Clinton's nominee for surgeon general, joined the list last week. Every troubled nomination comes with its own blend of miscommunication, miscalculation, cynicism and ideological strife. In the end, Foster's merits as a physician and educator were unfairly eclipsed by the White House's inept handling of a politically incendiary issue -- abortion. Here's the diary of a Washington disaster:
It began, like most Washington tales, with a leak. On Jan. 27, Foster's name surfaced in ...