Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, ad hoc decisions can lead to posthaste confusion, as quickly became apparent on Capitol Hill. When the Tower nomination appeared to be doomed, White House counsel Boyden Gray, a longtime Bush favorite who often acts independently of others on the staff, pressed for postponement of a vote in the Senate Armed Services Committee. But at the same time, White House lobbyists were pressing for an early vote...
Legal and Ethical Are Not the Same Thing. By seeking to codify ethical conduct, the Government has inadvertently encouraged behavior that borders on what is legally permissible. Consider C. Boyden Gray, the White House counsel. While serving as an aide to then Vice President Bush, Gray moonlighted as chairman of a family-owned communications firm, which paid him as much as $50,000 a year. White House officials are formally barred from such outside employment, but not the Vice President's staff. Even when appointed White House ethics czar, Gray apparently planned to continue this cozy arrangement until...
After a brief stint as Uncle Carl's congressional counsel, Nunn returned to Perry and won election to the state house in 1968. Three years later his goal was to create a new congressional district, for which, naturally, he would run. But a man named Jimmy Carter was Governor, and Carter favored a different reapportionment scheme. Let down by Carter, whom he had supported for years, Nunn challenged the man Carter appointed to the U.S. Senate. "I was only 33 then," says Nunn, "a junior legislator. Even Uncle Carl said I couldn't win, but I felt...
...former Bush adviser who played a large role in the transition, Bush "always asked, 'Is he or she really on the team?' " In selecting Quayle, for example, Bush did not want a running mate with a significant constituency of his own, and he made the decision without heeding the counsel of politically savvy advisers. Sununu too was a highly personal choice: he had little Washington experience, but Bush had come to rely on him heavily during the 1988 primaries and in formulating the Republican platform...
...week of arcane wrangling ensued, at last ending in what Judge Gesell called a "treaty" between the Justice Department and the independent counsel's office. They identified eight general categories of deep secrets, promptly dubbed the "drop-dead list," some elements of which are deemed so exceedingly secret that officials dare not even speak their names. If any documents or testimony relating to a subject on the drop-dead list seemed likely to come up, the trial would halt while all parties tried to settle the question behind closed doors. If Gesell ruled that specific information was essential to North...