Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: If Ken Starr didn't exist, Bill Clinton might have to invent him. Not only has the President's approval rating soared since the independent counsel began investigating the Lewinsky affair, the President and first lady have also raked in $2 million in the last six months for their legal defense fund, according to White House officials. Compare that with the $1.3 million the Clintons spent three-and-a-half years scraping together for Whitewater costs. What's their secret? Relaxed limits on contributions -- not to mention direct mailing that invokes Starr's name. "You can either...
...debate inside the White House about whether Clinton should testify was tightly limited to six lawyers: Kendall, Ruff, Bennett, associate counsel Cheryl Mills, Kendall's colleague Nicole Seligman and Mickey Kantor. Each morning the inner circle met by conference call, with out-of-body participation by Kantor, calling in from Hong Kong. The instincts of Kendall had always been for Clinton to say as little as possible for as long as possible. None of the more political-minded advisers, such as Kantor and Bennett, could overcome Kendall's doctrine that no news was good news. Kendall often said little during...
...just sit on it until January," says a senior House Republican. And so, within days of Starr's notification, the Speaker will bring a resolution to the House floor limiting access to Starr's findings to the members of Hyde's Judiciary Committee. Then the independent counsel will deliver the report, and leaks will be inevitable...
...Democrats agree with Republican calls for private accounts, it may be possible for Clinton to get bipartisan support by going along with them. But many Democrats argue that he should resist and push for government control of the investments to reduce costs and spread the risk. Al Gore's counsel will be pivotal--he has plenty at stake, since fixing Social Security could be a calling card for 2000--but big constituencies like labor and the elderly will be watching for anything that smells like a betrayal. Clinton, who believes a Gore presidency will help cement the Clinton legacy, needs...
David P. Schippers, the lawyer hired by the house to help lead possible impeachment hearings against the President, is a lifelong Democrat who voted for Clinton twice. That's not the only surprising thing about his appointment as lead counsel by Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde. Schippers, a widely respected criminal-defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, has had practically nothing to do with national politics in his four-decade career. He once said he counts Thomas Jefferson among his heroes because "he never wanted to be in politics...