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...His statement about the care on social justice grounds and strong both sides of the justice argument...

...Among those cited to The fellows, although young, are in the fessional communities "where they can me only one seemed to he clearly thatearly or formative years of their careers share their new knowledge and contribute Anne Cohen Donnelly, director of the or professions, and...

...These remarkable reconstruction of his life:' may or may not be members of "the grow-Kenneth L. W odward, ing reservoir of'exceptional individuals preReligion Editor, NEWSWEEK pared to serve their country," but in "This volume, filled with fascinating details Clintonian terms, they certainly do not mirof politics and world history, puts Pope ror America...

...other major piece of the Catholic case in complex, noisy society, and almost Some energy must also be used to think the health-care debate...

...For President's Commission on White House Clinton White House than of the precedthat reason a director of national service, Fellowships...

...Brooke Shearer, a long-time ing ones...

...become members of the establishment...

...Ap- sought to enlist citizens nationwide in af- I wanted to help people...

...Few other insti- none gets a close-up view of govthrough the relevant moral categories of tutions will carry as complex a case in the ernment...

...It was he who also founded and have set about putting their appoint- Common Cause, the organization which "I got into government service because ees in charge of both old and new...

...A work, a member of the first class: Dana deed...

...The steps toward the doing of that, it would appear, should include changing the commission and the selection panels, as well as dealing with the alumni fellows who in large part fund the program through Pai a IL ,l 1 ' rc s private contributions to the White House 997 5htcarthur Blvd...

...Reinventing government will not he easy...

...Clearly at this moment the best creative cial justice and justice as a right-to-life Today young people of compaenergies in the church should be devoted claim, the argument for pluralism is the rable ability grow up in a huge, to joining these two kinds of justice claims...

...fellows since the program's inception...

...was pared down sharply...

...been a Republican...

...It is interbeen assured, is to increase to the established ones...

...10: 7 May 1993 Commonweal...

...that president has ployees of the federal government, work- another Clinton appointee...

...Gardner, readers may remember, with the varied new governments of the was the epitome of those from American separated parts of the former Soviet Union "good families" who saw public service might seem to be at odds with the European as both an obligation and an honorable prodesk...

...When Gardner broached the idea, it was warmly welcomed by then President 0 ne of the aims of the new parently the newly created agencies are Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, administration, we have intended to provide competitive stimulus according to Brooke Shearer...

...Paul VI in a new and welcome perspective This life of Montini is com- So far Brooke Shearer's plan for reinprehensive, candid and compelling:' venting this small government program -Robert F Drinan, S.J...

...A physician may take H. Walsh, CEO of Tenneco...

...credible moral posture in the public de- tections which will be needed to shape a fecting the legislative process through citbate by joining strong support for health Catholic strategy if we do not prevail on izen lobbying...

...their communities-geographic or pro- ernment...

...The case ralistic health-care system...

...It the commission...

...The case is moral- Finally, in the public debate the Catholic idealistic approach to public service in a ly coherent, but it will be very difficult to case for health care should include a democracy: prevail in the present climate on abortion...

...the National Comcruitment brochure, "have contributed to fuller understanding of the federal gov- mission for Prevention of Child Abuse...

...idea of John W. Gardner, former secreThe White House tendency toward du- tary of Health, Education, and Welfare, ality is apparent here...

...The numbers of Various unhappy old-timers have point- According to her, the fellowships were the ed out that effective agencies for partici- unlikely fruit of the Vietnam War...

...This may be the result of the selecto their communities is a vital element in Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio, tion process: The standards arc set by the the commission's criteria for selection...

...White House Fellows is typical of his opposition to abortion...

...As the years go by they have beGOODFELLOWS come a growing reservoir of exREINVENTING GOVERNMENT ceptional individuals prepared to serve their country...

...At the State Depart- and Fellowship Commission chairman, ment, the new "czarship" for relations 1977-81...

...there were two women-one a professor at West Point, and one a former PAUL v1 police officer...

...It includes also various offi'60s, the prospect of spreading 1(X) of those ing the program...

...esting to note that Shearer's phrasing, citizen participation in One of the least known of the agencies "Lyndon and Lady Bird," although ungovernment-part of the for increased citizen participation is the doubtedly apt, is more typical of the process of "reinventing government...

...In the 1992-93 class, for example...

...in the words of the re- to society more productively through a public interest group...

...the other The First Modern Pope in the Air Force...

...and Michael It is also interesting to note that the cri- on welfare reform...

...An attorney may spend cers of corporations, among them Tom thirty-years-old or under throughout the a large part of his or her year working on Johnson, president of Cable News Netgovernment might have seemed risky in- arms control and disarmament issues...

...Each year a selection of the most promising young men and women OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy in America are given the opportunity to see and participate in the process of governing at the highest levels...

...There were two blacksboth majors-one in the Army...

...teria for eligibility established in the the lead in establishing a pilot exchange But most of them, it seems to me, have Johnson era excluded all employees of the program with a foreign government...

...Members of the reing in the executive office of the president There have been twenty-eight classes of gional interviewing panels are "leading citor in an executive department or agency...

...izens" also appointed by the president via They are told that "although White House The list of alumni is impressive indeed...

...The Clinton people think otherwise fession...

...Pluralistic in from villages or the countryside, or should be cast injustice terms across the this setting means a system of public and from what would now be regarded two issues: what justice demands for un- private institutions, as well as institu- as very small cities...

...Commonweal 7 Mav 1993: 9 fellows have ranged front eleven to nine- ing, education, and experience, they should commanders of the Atlantic and Pacific teen...

...federal government except career military The brochure states that most fellows re- They arc leaders, true, but few have been personnel...

...istration), and the White House Fellow- The creation of the fellowships was the ships...

...trail, is the newly appointed director...

...All of them had born life, and what it demands to protect tional protection for specific religiously the opportunity, as youths, to see at life after birth...

...Along with protecting so- first hand the process of governing...

...turn to their geographic, or at least pro- agents of change...

...But Gardner's original proEli Segal, long an associate of the presi- FOB (Friend of Bill's) who accompanied posal that there be a hundred of the fellows dent's, is a prominent member of the Hillary Rodham Clinton on the campaign assigned throughout the executive branch White House staff...

...Ll with that unfortunate fact...

...Fellows will draw on specific prior train- includes General Colin Powell and the The results of the process have been predictable...

...Fellows Foundation -in other words, a Mahwah, NJ 07430 201-825-7300 thorough restructuring...

...aims at broadening the spectrum of occupations from which the fellows are drawn...

...based policies...

...They arc full-time Schedule A em- opment, and former Senator Tim Wirth, fellowships' existence...

...But more than a few have re- Representatives of the creative arts are also fessional...

...There were two other caPETER HEBBLETHWAITE 768 pages reer military officers, three lawyers from 16 pages of photos top firms, three officers front financial "When Vatican officials get round to measuring companies, one CEO of a restaurant chain, Paul VI for canonization they'll have too few $29.95 cloth better witnesses than this lively and altogether one doctor, one associate professor...

...One can speculate that in the climate not expect to continue doing the type of fleets, Admirals Leon Edney and Charles of the Johnson administration and the work they had been doing before enter- R. Larson...

...and now member of the Clinton cabinet commission, which is appointed by the What do they do in their fellowship as director of Housing and Urban Devel- president and, for most of the years of the year...

...This leadership and commitment turned to government --among them Henry few...

...They pation are already in place-among them, were instituted during the Johnson adof course, the Peace Corps, VISTA, SCORE ministration to counteract the rising tide (the senior corps of retired executives of distrust of government at that unfortuconnected with the Small Business Admin- nate time...

...The White House Fellowlaw and morality, material cooperation, and legislative struggle we are now facing as ship Program is one attempt to deal the full range of conscience clause pro- a nation...

...businessman may spend a year working Mead, president of Tenneco...

...strong argument for the value of a plu- Our founding fathers all came It is clearly worth a major effort...