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Patrick has served as general counsel for Texaco and the Coca-Cola Company. A prominent civil rights lawyer, he served as the nation’s top civil rights enforcer in the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the Clinton administration...
...final and unlikeliest mentor: a prostitute incarcerated in the Greenwich Village Women’s House of Detention, the House of D from which this film draws its name. Played by Erika Badu, Lady—she never gives Tommy her real name—intersperses her counsel with frequent requests that Tommy buy her a dimebag in Washington Square Park. Nonetheless, she does give serious thought to Tommy’s problems and she offers him valuable life lessons...
After careful consideration, Reagan became the first President ever to transfer power formally to his Vice President. The one-page letter he signed was originally drafted in longhand by White House Counsel Fred Fielding in consultation with Attorney General Edwin Meese and White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan. Based on the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, the letter was designed to provide an orderly conveyance of power while Reagan was under anesthesia and at the same time avoid causing undue public alarm by invoking the Constitution...
Legal, political and psychological reasons were behind the President's caution. In addition to their concern about unduly alarming the nation, White House aides felt they were in uncharted legal waters. Chief of Staff Regan, White House Counsel Fielding and Reagan all believed that the amendment was designed for a longer, more debilitating illness than this one appears to be. They did not want a Reagan precedent to pressure future Presidents into using the amendment on inconsequential occasions--when, say, a President was under anesthesia merely to have some wisdom teeth removed...
...larger role. Republican Senator John Sununu of New Hampshire has explored proposals that would give power to the Treasury Department to oversee critical aspects of the industry, including accounting. A federal authority "could pick up patterns of behavior more effectively than 51 separate regulators," says Craig Berrington, general counsel at the American Insurance Association...