Clayton Yeutter dies; trade negotiator, USDA chief, White House counselor
Nebraska native Clayton Yeutter, who held a handful of high-level jobs during the Reagan-Bush era, died on Saturday of cancer at age 86. Energetic and engaging, Yeutter was U.S. trade representative for President Reagan and became agriculture secretary following the election of George H.W. Bush in 1988, moving at Bush's request to chair the Republican National Committee in 1991 and becoming counselor to the president a year after that.