Word: bairds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evasion alone should have been enough to disqualify Baird, whatever her salary. Baird explained that she and her husband had been sponsoring their employees for U.S. citizenship and that their violation was a "legal technicality." Even after it all unraveled, some still just didn't get it. In her letter to Clinton, Baird said she was "surprised at the extent of the public reaction...
...fair, the White House was not alone in underestimating the depth of feeling. For days the editorial writers and pundits tiptoed around the controversy. "Is this minor scandal troubling?" asked the Los Angeles Times. "Yes. Should it embarrass Clinton and the Bairds? Most certainly. Should it disqualify Baird from being Attorney General? We think not." But the people's press, especially the radio shows, came down very differently. "Talk shows were like town meetings," says Estrich. "When an issue takes hold with the people, you don't need a formal political process for the country to reach a decision. They...
...Clinton somehow still managed to miss the point. In his statements after her withdrawal, Clinton declared that he was "accepting the judgment" of his nominee that she would not be able to serve effectively. He made no moral judgment of his own; in fact, his letter to Baird said he would like to find another place for her in his Administration. Spokesman George Stephanopoulos suggested that the President thought Baird would make a fine Attorney General and that he was not happy that she withdrew. But that left him in a small minority...
Those around him in charge of finding, vetting and recommending appointees like Zoe Baird did not share the populist instincts of campaign advisers like Carville and Paul Begala. Even according to officials who participated in the Baird case, it is not surprising that high-paid, high-powered corporate lawyers did not see trouble coming. When Clinton put millionaire superlawyers Warren Christopher and Vernon Jordan in charge of his transition, he laid the foundation for Baird's destruction. "What happened here," said a transition official, "was that a lot of people who live in million-dollar houses and think nothing...
...possible to have enormous sympathy for the pain of working parents trying to do right by their children, and to have little for Zoe Baird. Millions of working men and women lose sleep every night wondering whether their children are safe during the day. The search for someone they are willing to trust their children with can be endless, the paperwork onerous, the expense breaking. It is an entirely different task from finding a reliable mechanic or a gifted gardener. Simply understanding the laws that apply would take the mind of a law professor -- like the one Baird married...