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Black's and Lake's presence on the campaign team saddles Bush with a liability, and White House officials fear that Clinton will eagerly exploit the issue in the fall. Last week White House counsel C. Boyden Gray and other senior officials were working behind the scenes to get Black and Lake to break away from their lobbying firms. "The job of a lobbyist is to influence the government," said a senior official. "It is not appropriate to have a substantial position in the campaign and to stay connected with ((clients)) who are trying to influence the government...
This eleventh-hour rearguard action was launched by C. Boyden Gray, the White House counsel, who had opposed the bill from the start. Between 4 and 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Gray instructed his staff to fax to federal departments an order that, in Bush's name, "terminated" all government programs that give preference to racial minorities and women in hiring, promotion, federal contracting, college admissions and scholarships. Gray's view that the new law should be blind to color and sex is popular not only with conservatives but also with a majority of voters. Yet his position flatly contradicted...
...jammed the White House phones. Democrats and moderate Republicans denounced the directive. It was, said Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, "an attempt to gain by Executive fiat what the White House could not pass through the Congress." A senior White House official agreed: "Boyden and his staff were just too close to the civil rights bill, and too many animosities built up. When it was over and the compromises were made, they still couldn...
...corporate flights in advance with both White House lawyers and bookkeepers. The President acted shortly before the Washington Post printed a story claiming that Sununu, his wife Nancy and an aide had personally solicited rides on jets owned by companies that do business with Washington. White House counsel C. Boyden Gray had blocked three such requests, but sources told the Post that an aide to Sununu had misinformed Gray about the identity of a fourth benefactor. In a statement on Saturday, Sununu admitted that "some mistakes were made...
President Bush's new travel policy, announced last week by White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, bars chief of staff John Sununu from taking personal trips on government aircraft except for "immediate and compelling need." Even though he outranks Gray, Sununu must get specific, advance clearance from him for official flights...