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...Boyden Gray ’64, the White House counsel to former President George H.W. Bush, has pressured Harvard on this issue as well. He says Summers’ efforts at administrative centralization seem logical despite over three centuries’ worth of tradition...
Complicating efforts to settle the water dispute is its sordid history. The initial deals between Peabody and the Hopi during the 1960s, on much worse terms than similar deals elsewhere, were negotiated by a lawyer, John Boyden, who died in 1980. He claimed to represent the controversial tribal council of the day, which paid him a $1 million fee--even as he secretly represented Peabody's interests. Says University of Colorado law professor Charles Wilkinson: "It's as outrageous a scenario as we've seen in Western resource development...
...Boyden Gray, Bush's White House counsel during the period in question, said he can't recall the case or the note sent by Baker in November 1992. But he said the reference to Cox as a "longtime supporter" would not have influenced the decision. "It was boilerplate to put it in," he told TIME. (Baker did not return calls for comment.) Gray said such inquiries were routinely sent to the Justice Department's pardon attorney. He did not recall whether Justice recommended Cox's pardon. But nearly every pardon granted by Bush had its support, he said...
Citi is now implementing what is probably one of the most aggressive anti-money-laundering programs in the U.S. banking industry. But its past missteps could lead to a tightening of money-laundering statutes on Capitol Hill. The company is taking no chances and has hired Boyden Gray, White House counsel in the Bush Administration, to keep legislators from getting too busy. Gray sent a letter to the Senate subcommittee arguing that it lacked jurisdiction to investigate. A second letter pleaded that Reed should not have to testify. Both requests were quickly denied...
...weapons in their arsenal. Even Nixon's adversaries never subpoenaed the President. In the past there has been a grease of custom and compromise that kept Presidents and prosecutors from getting this far in the hole. "You never want to litigate questions of separation of powers," says C. Boyden Gray, George Bush's White House counsel. "When you litigate these things rather than bargain over them, you tend to lose them...