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Newsday reported in an August 30 article titled "Bush not strong on diversity" that an analysis of federal personnel records for September 2000 and September 2002 concluded that "lacks held 7 percent of administration jobs under Bush, less than half of the 16 percent they held under Clinton," and blacks held only 6 percent of "senior executive posts" under Bush compared to 13 percent under Clinton. As Newsday observed, Bush "has assembled the most diverse cabinet and top-level officials requiring Senate approval of any Republican president, creating a profile that nears the record-setting diversity of Clinton.
... [But] just below those highly visible positions -- in the hundreds of little known but important appointments to senior executive posts that don't need Senate confirmation -- the diversity of the Bush administration fades.