Word: bernards
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...when he was first appointed, lately many of them have complained about a lack of aggressiveness in Fiske's investigation and his ties to some members of the Administration. Leading the chorus was Senator Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina, who pointed out last week that former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum had once recommended Fiske for a job with the Iran-contra independent counsel...
...chief of staff, Maggie Williams, was "involved at all" in the document retrieval. "I don't know that she did remove any documents," Mrs. Clinton answered. "I didn't send anyone into ((Foster's)) office to retrieve anything," she elaborated several weeks later -- which was technically correct. It was Bernard Nussbaum, then the White House counsel, who distributed the documents. The whole truth, though, is that Nussbaum gave a file marked "Whitewater" to Williams, who then had it stored on the third floor of the White House residence. Five days later, the papers were transferred to the Clintons' personal attorney...
...House and Senate, Republicans -- and some Democrats -- zeroed in on Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, claiming he had been less than forthcoming about the department's contacts with the White House over an investigation into the failed S&L at the center of Whitewater. Former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum was blasted for urging Altman not to recuse himself from overseeing ( the investigation...
...Apparently, something I've said has displeased a lot of people at the White House . . . I will no longer use the phrase 'White House 10' because I can understand how it would seem offensive to some people." -- CNN Anchor Bernard Shaw, during the network's coverage of the House Whitewater hearings
...hearing earlier this year, he repeatedly told the committee that he knew of only one meeting on the RTC case between the Treasury and the White House -- on Feb. 2 of this year. Altman hewed to the line that the Feb. 2 meeting -- attended by White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and top White House staffers Harold Ickes and Margaret Williams -- turned only on how the RTC normally handles cases when the statute of limitations on civil actions is about to expire. Altman said he provided no further information about the RTC's probe of the Madison failure. But his initial...