Word: counseling
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Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig, the nation's top bank regulator, wrote in a memo that surfaced last week that President Clinton had approached him for "advice and counsel" regarding the "legal-regulatory issues relative to the Whitewater matter." Ludwig says he responded that it would be "impermissible" for him to give such advice. The White House retorted that the only information Clinton sought from Ludwig, an old college pal, was the names of real estate experts who could write sympathetic articles about Whitewater issues...
...agreeing to hold hearings now. At a meeting of G.O.P. congressional powers back in March, Iowa Representative Jim Leach, who by then had emerged as his party's leading Whitewater prober, protested that the timing looked all wrong. The hearings, he noted, could delve only into matters that special counsel Robert Fiske had finished investigating. By midsummer that would include only developments in Washington -- not any financial and real estate dealings in Arkansas by Governor Bill Clinton and his wife. Moreover, says someone familiar with the March meeting, Leach warned that "the chance was very real that Fiske was going...
...second day of congressional Whitewater hearings, former presidential counsel Bernard Nussbaum repeatedly denied he had tried to influence the government's investigation into Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. Nussbaum resigned in April under accusations of mishandling the affair. While he admitted he had been shocked by the Resolution Trust Corporation's appointment of Jay Stephens, a former Republican federal prosecutor and a sharp Clinton critic, to investigate the failure of the savings institution, he said he had not attempted to remove Stephens. Nussbaum was followed by the "White House 10" -- high-level Clinton Administration officials, who all copped a plea...
...Clinton Administration made some "regrettable" missteps in trying to monitor the Whitewater investigation, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler told Congress on the first day of hearings into the matter. But he was quick to add that neither the President nor his staff did anything illegal or unethical when administration officials met with the Treasury Department regarding a Whitewater-related savings & loan probe. The GOP response, summed up by Wisconsin Representative Toby Roth: "This thing smells to high heaven." Expect the rhetoric to grow worse, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. In further hearings this week, Republicans will get a crack...
...emerges at a time when the White House has been struggling to refute allegations that Tyson enjoys undue influence with Clinton and his staff. As Arkansas' Governor, Clinton had close ties with Tyson, the state's largest employer. Several company executives helped finance Clinton's many campaigns. Tyson general counsel Jim Blair guided Hillary Clinton's fabulously successful commodities trades. Tyson was also the second largest contributor to a $220,000 fund Clinton used to pursue his Arkansas political agenda, an enterprise uncovered last week by the Associated Press...