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Presidential Transitions
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Presidential transition periods are times of uncertainty and contradiction. The outgoing president retains all the formal legal powers of the presidency, yet his last electoral success is four years removed and his political capital is at low ebb. Further complicating the matter is that the transition agendas of the two presidents are unlikely to be aligned. Even if both presidents are from the same political party, their goals in the transition period may be widely disparate. The outgoing president will be concerned with preserving his legacy. The incoming president, on the other hand, will be focused on beginning her own initiatives.
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Presidential transitions are challenging for everyone--the new campus leader and the staff. Regardless of the challenge, the more that can be done to establish a sense of common purpose, trust, and understanding, the smoother the transition.
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Presidential transitions take time -- time for the new leader to get to know people on the campus and to begin fund raising. And in Smith College's case, time for the new president to actually arrive.
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The Conference's recommendation includes requirements contained in pending legislation to amend the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 for minimal disclosure of personal or financial information by transition team workers. [FN2] The Conference believes that transition team members should supply this limited information to agencies, whether or not the pending legislation is enacted. The Conference ... recommends that special transition team members agree not to use non-public government information, or to take any action as transition team members which could further their own financial interests.
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Third, prescription of former presidential roles is likely to constitute a key aspect of any 'difficult transition'. In such transitions there is almost always a pronounced need to balance the demands of justice against the requirements of political stability. Whatever the desirability of subjecting brutal and corrupt dictators to criminal proceedings, the quickest and surest way to peace and stability may lie along the road, if not of forgiveness, then of bargained protection for the tyrant, whether in the form of exile, amnesty, guaranteed security, and pensioned retirement, or any combination of these. However much it galls democrats that a Daniel Arap Moi or Charles Taylor should escape justice for brutal and avaricious sins, the fact remains that they retain a potential capacity to reduce their countries to mayhem.
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One of the likely casualties of the current presidential imbroglio is a smooth and effective presidential transition. A botched or hurried transition, in turn, will undermine the effectiveness of the new administration.
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