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	Mickey Kantor Speaker at Speakers.com
		Mickey Kantor, formerly Secretary of Commerce and United States Trade Representative, is a partner in Mayer, Brown Rowe and Maw LLP, an international law firm headquartered in Chicago.
		Mickey Kantor serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Korea First Bank and the CB Richard Ellis Group.
		Mickey Kantor served as chief negotiator to the 117-nation Uruguay Round to create the world's largest trade pact and convened three successful APEC meetings of leaders of the Asia-Pacific region containing the world's fastest growing markets.
	speakers.com /listing.asp?sid=1197 (425 words)

	Former Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor Defends the Record of Global Free Trade, UCLA International Institute
		Kantor appeared as a guest lecturer at the June 1 session, the fourth and last of a special Global Challenges subset of the class presentations sponsored by the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations.
		Kantor served as national chairman for the Clinton-Gore campaign in 1992, and is a member of the board of several prominent corporations including Monsanto.
		Mickey Kantor reminded his audience that in a globalized world the movement of goods and services -- trade -- is accompanied by the movement of capital and the movement of people as well.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=25322 (4079 words)

	Barnard College Newscenter
		Kantor, who worked in the Clinton administration and is now national chair for General Wesley Clark’s presidential campaign, warned the audience on Thursday evening January 29 in Barnard Hall that political leaders risked losing credibility on the importance of international trade in the debate over the direction of the U.S. economy.
		Kantor rejected the argument that the jobless recovery was the result of trade agreements, such as NAFTA.
		Kantor is a partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw LLP, an international law firm headquartered in Chicago Kantor is married to a Barnard alumna, former NBC News reporter Heidi Schulman, and is the father of a Barnard graduate, Leslie Kantor.
	www.barnard.edu /newnews/news013004c.html (241 words)

	Emotional Clinton picks Kantor to replace Brown
		Mickey Kantor and I were particularly close to Ron Brown, and we love him very much," the president said during an emotional announcement in the East Room of the White House.
		Kantor has conducted more than 200 separate agreements, including 21 trade deals with Japan, and developed a reputation as a hard-ball negotiator.
		Kantor and Brown were political insiders and lobbyists.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/04/13/kantor.html (608 words)

	Barnard College Newscenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Kantor is a partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw LLP, an international law firm headquartered in Chicago.
		Kantor was sworn in as the 31st United States Secretary of Commerce in 1996.
		Kantor is married to Heidi Schulman, a distinguished alumna of Barnard and former NBC news reporter.
	www.barnard.edu /newnews/news012204.html (369 words)

	Clinton Reaches Out to Veteran Trouble-Shooter
		Kantor has never been a universally-loved figure in the White House: His fiery temper and his absence of patience with those who cross him are legendary.
		And while he was widely praised for his performance in the trade arena, he left the administration last year after it became clear that, despite his closeness to Clinton and his wife, Hillary, he was not destined to become attorney general or secretary of state.
		The months-long dance with Tokyo was a classic Kantor concoction: Long weeks of threatening public statements, endless nights of negotiation, conciliatory backchannel messages to his opponents, and, in the end, a deal laced with ambiguity.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/012798clinton-kantor.html (635 words)

	Mickey Kantor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael "Mickey" Kantor (born August 7, 1939 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American politician and lawyer.
		After serving as the Clinton-Gore campaign chair in 1992, Kantor was appointed United States Trade Representative, holding that office from 1993 to 1997.
		Kantor practices law at Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw, an international law firm based in Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mickey_Kantor (553 words)

	Current crisis not first scandal Kantor, Ickes have faced
		But despite their political savvy, even Mickey Kantor and Harold Ickes did not emerge from their time in the Clinton administration untarnished by scandal.
		Kantor was one of several administration officials who made calls on Hubbell's behalf during the spring and summer of 1994, but it is not known whether he was directly involved in Hubbell being hired for any particular jobs.
		Kantor also hired Hubbell's son, Walter, as a staff member in the U.S. Trade Representative's office shortly after the elder Hubbell's resignation from the justice department.
	www.ardemgaz.com /prev/clinton/zfkantor27.html (656 words)

	Mickey Kantor - SourceWatch
		Mickey Kantor, a member of the advisory board of OILspace, is "a former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and has a distinguished record of government service.
		Kantor, currently a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Mayer, Brown, and Platt, L.L.P. is one of the world's leading international attorneys and specializes in expanding client activities in foreign markets through trade, direct investment, joint ventures and strategic business alliances," his biogrpahical note states.
		Kantor has been a partner at Mayer, Brown and Platt where his primary practice has been in corporate and financial international transactions.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Mickey_Kantor&redirect=no (313 words)

	North American Public Diplomacy: NAFTA and Beyond \| USC Center on Public Diplomacy \| Home
		Kantor served as National Chariman for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and was appointed by President Carter in 1978 to the Board of the Legal Services Corporation.
		Kantor has received many awards for his accomplishments and currently serves as a board member for numerous corporations, universities and organizations, including the Board of Councilors for the Annenberg School at USC and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce National commission on Capital Markets.
		Kantor's wife, Heidi, teaches at USC and is a former journalist with NBC News.
	uscpublicdiplomacy.com /index.php/about/event_detail/1489 (443 words)

	Trade secrets: Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor shares his goals for putting small business on the world map - ...
		Kantor became the 31st Secretary of Commerce on April 12, replacing Ron Brown, who died in a plane crash on a trade mission to Bosnia and Croatia.
		Kantor: We've created Export Assistance Centers around the nation that bring together the Ex-Im Bank, the Small Business Administration and the Commerce Department to promote and help finance [international] trade, especially with small and medium-sized businesses.
		Kantor: You can transfer technology and shift money around the globe in the blink of an eye, move management, even create companies overseas...
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_n10_v24/ai_18726424 (791 words)

	OCB Tracker - June 1999 - Calling Mickey Kantor
		Former White House Cabinet member Mickey Kantor has been hired by the California Nations Indian Gaming Association to help negotiate on their behalf in the compact negotiations with Gov. Gray Davis’ administration.
		William A. Norris, special counsel for tribal affairs was quoted by the Associated Press that he will meet with a tribal committee represented by Mickey Kantor.
		Mickey Kantor is a well connected politico who was part of the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997.
	www.ocbtracker.com /9906kantor.html (452 words)

	A First Trade Test for Mickey Kantor
		A wrangle over complex rules for dealing with cheap imports is presenting Mickey Kantor with the first big test of his mettle as the new U.S. secretary of commerce.
		Kantor a chance to choose between taking the side of U.S. exporters and consumers, or that of protectionist special interests led by the big domestic steel producers.
		Kantor's previous record as U.S. trade representative — indeed the administration's whole approach to trade — suggests he will side with the special interests.
	www.iht.com /articles/1996/04/19/think.t_3.php (587 words)

	American Politics Journal -- Safire Fingers Lindner
		Safire wants us to believe this was a "payoff" to the White House for Mickey Kantor -- then the U.S. Trade Representative -- to argue to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that the Chiquita company deserved to bring bananas into Europe in a very big way.
		Kantor was successful, and the big money began to flow the very next day.
		Kantor now denies Safire's premise, saying he knew nothing of the Lindner contributions and that he acted based on staff recommendations not on instructions from Democrat fundraisers or the Oval Office.
	www.americanpolitics.com /19970326Lindner.html (539 words)

	Former U.S. Trade Representatives - Council on Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		We have an extraordinarily distinguished group of speakers, in Carla Hills and Mickey Kantor and Charlene Barshefsky.
		KANTOR: Bob called for the elimination of export subsidies and of course by date certain.
		KANTOR: Yeah, I think the letter as I read it, but maybe I’m wrong—but Charlene cited before the fact that Bob and Pascal Lamy had joined forces at Cancun, unfortunately, with a broad agreement on agriculture.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=6657 (9151 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		WASHINGTON — Mickey Kantor, who ran Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign and went on to become Commerce secretary, talked to actress Elizabeth Ward Gracen's manager in 1992 about what she would say regarding rumors she once had a sexual relationship with Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas.
		Kantor, through his colleague, did not dispute that he may have had other conversations with Levy.
		Kantor was Clinton's national campaign chairman during the 1992 race against President Bush.
	www.usatoday.com /news/index/clinton/clin283.htm (1010 words)

	Online NewsHour: Mickey Kantor -- August 28, 1996
		KANTOR: Well, unlike the rest of us, of course--we all like to be loved.
		The fact is that I can't tell you because he had a mother who worked hard, grandparents who raised him, but I think he always had the sense of himself, his ability to articulate issues, his ability to connect to what was going on around him and in the larger sense of the country.
		KANTOR: When you show real leadership, the pressure has to be on, a lot has to be at stake, and you have to personally get involved.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/convention96/newshour_analysis/kantor_8-28.html (976 words)

	Washington Speakers Bureau: Mickey Kantor
		Mickey Kantor has been an unflagging advocate for the creation of new rules to serve a new global economy.
		Creating The Global Economy: While in office, Mickey Kantor led the negotiations that created the WTO, NAFTA, the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum and was involved in the initial steps towards the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
		A Spur for Entrepreneurship: Serving in the Clinton administration, Kantor helped spur entrepreneurship while stimulating economic development in threatened communities and supporting the private sector in its continuing bid for a competitive edge.
	www.washingtonspeakers.com /speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerId=2077 (235 words)

	CNN Transcript - Early Edition: Election 2000: Mickey Kantor Discusses Picking a Vice President - August 4, 2000
		CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Mickey Kantor served as Clinton's former commerce secretary and was chairman of the Clinton-Gore '92 campaign.
		Kantor, you don't want to talk about specific names, but let's talk about strategy and see if we can get some clues.
		Uniquely, when you get to this stage, Carol, this is the vice president's choice: who he is comfortable with, where he thinks the campaign is going, who he can work with when he is in office as president of the United States.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0008/04/ee.08.html (871 words)

	95/12/02 Sec. Christopher on Transatlantic Agenda
		So everything came together, and here we are six months later, and despite the doubts of many that it could be done, two American super star lawyers and a Foreign Minister trained in physics and their able teams have given us a document which is at once visionary and practical.
		AMBASSADOR KANTOR: When any two great entities spend time in serious negotiations and agree to move forward, it's not only binding but both will always adhere to the dictates of what they have undertaken, and it is very specific and very hopeful in terms of our trade and economic relations.
		AMBASSADOR KANTOR: Well, once the document is signed, of course, we'll begin the study and we agreed this morning with Foreign Minster Solana to begin immediately.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/briefing/dossec/1995/9512/951202dossec2.html (3070 words)

	Kantor criticizes WTO's secrecy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Former U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor used a luncheon in Seattle's most exclusive downtown club to deliver a blunt message: The World Trade Organization should open up the way it does business.
		Kantor recalled asking the WTO for decision documents while serving in the cabinet and being directed by the global trade bureaucracy not to release the material to the public.
		Kantor, a key adviser to President Clinton since the 1992 campaign, outlined a number of reforms which he said are needed immediately.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/kant30.shtml (624 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Clinton's presence looms over Clark's campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — After watching from the sidelines for months, former Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor was lured into action by presidential candidate Wesley Clark — with a nudge from former President Clinton.
		By action and association, Clinton has had a major impact on Clark's first bid for elective office, causing some Democrats to wonder whether the former president's pledge of impartiality may be giving way to his loyalty toward a fellow Arkansan.
		Kantor said Clinton did not ask him to aid Clark.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,515033671,00.html (879 words)

	IMS: Mickey Kantor, U.S. Trade Representative, National Press Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the post-Cold War world, "trade is central to our foreign policy," superseding strategic and political considerations, U.S. Trade representative Mickey Kantor told a Club Luncheon [delivered March 23, 1995].
		Kantor said the Clinton Administration had negotiated 74 trade agreements in 24 months, including the North American Free Trade Agreement.
		Kantor emphasized the importance of eliminating barriers to global trade.
	town.hall.org /radio/Club/950323_club_ITH.html (245 words)

	Union Corruption Update 1.10
		The House Education and the Workforce subcommittee began looking Oct. 6 into whether former U.S. Trade Rep. Mickey Kantor pressured a Cal. firm to settle a strike with the Teamsters in order to encourage campaign contributions from the union.
		Kantor, a long-time Clinton advisor, told a Rep. Peter Hoekstra's (R-Mich) committee that a telephone call he made at the request of then-White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes to Diamond Walnut Grower's former chief executive officer, William Cuff, didn't involve pending campaign donations.
		But, he said, “when you get a call from a senior official of the administration, you always have to be concerned.” That was particularly true when Diamond was also getting visits from the EPA, EEOC and OSHA and others.
	www.nlpc.org /olap/ucu/01_10.htm (1731 words)

	Kantor will leave Commerce post - Nov. 6, 1996
		NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, who served as top trade adviser for most of President Clinton's first term, told his boss Wednesday that he will not continue on into Clinton's second term.
		Kantor had been frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for attorney general in a second Clinton term.
		Kantor also helped negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
	money.cnn.com /1996/11/06/bizbuzz/kantor (361 words)

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