[4][5] Businessman Gerald Stern was named as the coordinator of the planning group on September 24, 1992, heading its day-to-day operations.

[6] Other members of the team included Warren Christopher, Henry Cisneros, Vernon Jordan, and Madeleine Kunin.

[6] By late-October, the team had also received roughly 2,000 inquiries from job seekers in their prospective presidential administration.

[5] On October 6, 1992, President George H. W. Bush signed an appropriation that would provide $5 million to a prospective transition.

The last time that a sitting governor had transitioned into the presidency had been Franklin D. Roosevelt after the 1932 United States presidential election.

The members he named were noted by The New York Times to have, "diversity in age, sex and ethnic background".

These guidelines would forbid any staff or volunteers from, in the first six months of the Clinton administration, lobbying the government in areas they had worked on during the transition.

[20] The transition was headquartered both in Little Rock, Arkansas and Washington, D.C., with this geographic split of the operation creating some problems.

[4] The main decisions tended to be made from the Little Rock headquarters, where Clinton largely remained during the transition.

[4][21] The transition began publicly announcing the first his designees to be appointed to major executive branch offices six weeks after winning the election.

[4] Consequentially, many of his White House hires were of individuals that had worked on his campaign, but who were largely young and lacked government experience.

[11] Clinton had roughly 4,000 executive branch positions to make appointments to, in addition to setting a budget and political agenda.

However, after Riley was named to be Clinton's choice for Secretary of Education, he found his attention divided between his role in the transition and preparing for his pending position in the presidential administration.

[4][25] Clinton, throughout his transition, made clear that he understood that, until January 20, the country had a singular president, George H. W.

[26] As the inauguration came close, Bush's advisers had begun working with Clinton's advisors, particularly on foreign policy, to ensure that there would be a smooth transfer of power.

While this provided an opportunity for the president-elect to display his policy knowledge, the summit also took up valuable time during a crucial stage of his transition.

[4] A scandal arose about Clinton's choice for Attorney General, Zoe Baird, having failed to pay taxes for domestic servants that had been in the country illegally.