Word: counsels
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When Senator Jim Jeffords bolted from the Republican Party last week, throwing control of the Senate to the Democrats and reprogramming the Capitol power grid, it took almost no time for the first signs of the new order to appear. There was White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez cooling his heels outside the Senate chamber until Democrat Patrick Leahy, now the presumptive chairman of the Judiciary Committee, could spare a moment to meet with him. There was the business lobbying group known as Arctic Power, quietly canceling a 10-state, $500,000 radio ad blitz designed to sell Memorial Day motorists...
...lawyer and presidential adviser; in Washington. Buchen led a secret group in 1974 that spent three months developing a plan under which his old friend and law partner, Vice President Gerald Ford, would assume the presidency if Nixon were to resign. Ford had no idea the plan existed. Appointed counsel to the new President, Buchen advised him on the controversial Nixon pardon. "I could see that he had already made up his mind," Buchen said later, "and it was my job to find out how he could do it, rather than whether he should...
...meaning or comfort. If I were a hard-core Catholic, I could spend days knocking around the Vatican's site. If I were a Muslim woman in need of advice on Koranic law or codes of dress, I could try the Niqaabi Club on which Muslim women worldwide can counsel or debate each other. If I were a Hindu - male or female - I could dive into the "Fatwa Bank," catch up on the latest news or find out which movies are "suitable." A Lubavitcher? I could get audio feeds of Torah classes...
...White's office has been working at a rapid clip on the pardons investigation as well as the probe of New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli. In the Marc Rich portion of the pardons inquiry, former White House counsel and Rich lobbyist Jack Quinn testified before the grand jury a total of four times - and none of the occasions were pleasant. Two Texans who claim they were defrauded by Roger Clinton, the former president's brother, are scheduled to testify in June. In the Torricelli probe, prosecutors are trying to amass enough physical and other evidence to overcome the fact that...
...Among the names that have floated to replace White are Gov. George Pataki's counsel, James McGuire, and criminal lawyer Thomas Engel, a former federal prosecutor in N.Y. and a Federalist Society member. But the change in control of the Senate could give Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer a bit more sway in the choice...