Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attorney for Deputy White House Counsel Bruce Lindsey noted today that the 1990 campaign, of which Lindsey was treasurer, made all spending public immediately after the election: "It is mystifying that anyone would believe he would break the law to try to keep secret information that he filed publicly just a few days later." Whitewater prosecutors have officially notified Lindsey, one of President Clinton's closest friends and aides, that they may seek to indict him for allegedly trying to conceal cash transactions during Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign. Administration officials disclosed late Thursday that Lindsey has known for months...
...function [of legal counsel] has changedfrom advice to governance," he said. "The giversof counsel have turned into givers...
Rita Hauser has practiced law as a seniorpartner of the firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Sheis now counsel to the firm and participates innumerous philanthropic endeavors as president ofthe Hauser Foundation, chair of the InternationalPeace Academy and co-chair of the RAND GreaterMiddle East Studies Center...
Clearly this confluence of scholarly and popular dissatisfaction with a historically unpopular group will present a very appetizing meal to any number of politicos. Though I do not believe that all politicians are fools and idiots, a fair number are. More frighteningly, recent history shows that the counsel of the most foolish and extremist figures tends to be given the most attention (though fortunately such ideas are not always heeded). So if Orenthal James Simpson is acquitted or let off by a hung jury, we should expect to see talk-show hosts and Congressional firebrands call...
...Democratic turned Republican consultant who had worked for Clinton in Arkansas, told the President the Democrats would lose 50 seats in the House and control of the Senate as well. The prediction was so prescient that Clinton, though hardly lacking for advisers, has continued to partake of Morris' counsel, usually over the phone but sometimes during private sessions in the White House residence. He even directed the Democratic National Committee to hire Morris's favorite polling firm, Penn & Schoen Associates of New York City, which worked for Clinton rival Ross Perot in 1992. Since December, Penn & Schoen has conducted surveys...