Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ickes almost didn't speak at all, after a surprise sideshow squabble between Fred Thompson and his alter ego, ranking Democrat John Glenn. "Glenn wanted (White House Counsel) Charles Ruff to come up and tell his story about the tapes," reports AllPolitics correspondent Tom Moore. "It was meant to clear the air on why the tapes were not released in July, to address the disclosure problem and try to deflate Thompson's indignation...
...first move was Bill Clinton's. Bouncing smartly off the news that Attorney General Janet Reno had started the process that may end with an independent counsel to probe his White House phone calls, Clinton announced he would keep Congress in session until it debated the reform bill. That posed a problem for Senate majority leader Trent Lott of Mississippi, who doesn't think a system in which Republicans raised $549 million in campaign '96--at least 50% more than the Democrats--needs all that much reforming. He also knows that Fred Thompson's Senate hearings, while intended...
...accounts instead of soft. But from a legal standpoint, there's still no strong evidence that Gore knew where the money was headed ? or that the calls themselves might be illegal. "Unless something new comes up, I don't see much likelihood that this will lead to an independent counsel," he says. "No prosecutor would try a case as thin as this. The only reason is that she's a Clinton appointee. She might turn it over just to be above suspicion." Which could conceivably wind up vindicating Gore in the long run. But for a White House whose scandals...
...suddenly sounds doubtful that anybody's leaving the stage without a big piece of the President. Campbell et al said in a statement that they were "retained as litigation counsel, not as special settlement counsel... We intend to vigorously prepare it for trial...
ExperiMentors Steering Committee, Head School Liason; Kirkland House Junior Librarian; 1997 Harvard VISIONS Int'l AIDS Conference, Publicity Co-Chair; Radcliffe Mentor Program; Bureau of Study Counsel Tutor...