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President Clinton criticizes women’s groups who were pressing him to appoint a historic Cabinet. At a year-end press conference naming Hazel O’Leary, an African-American woman to secretary of energy, Clinton calls the women leaders “bean counters” and chastises them for promoting “quotas,” not competence. (Clinton ultimately appoints the most gender-balanced cabinet until the administration of President Joseph R. Biden.)