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...will once again be under the spotlight on Thursday, when Lewis Libby is arraigned. Because of the roles Rove and Libby played in the CIA leak case, and the White House's sluggish performance in the last weeks, some Republicans are saying Bush needs to get new advisers. Kenneth Duberstein, who served as Reagan's chief of staff, said on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that Bush needed to "bring in two or three people who can talk with him and talk reality. I think it is central." In Iraq, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, said...
...Perhaps it's time for Bush to do what Ronald Reagan did to shore up his White House in the final years-bring in a team of terrific managers, people with credibility from Day One." Faced with the Iran-contra scandal, Reagan brought in Howard Baker and then Ken Duberstein as chiefs of staff, Frank Carlucci and then Colin Powell as National Security Advisers (Powell told Reagan, in no uncertain terms, that Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, who was running an illegal war from the White House basement, had to go). President Bush confronts nothing so threatening to his Administration...
...running EMILY's List, a fund-raising powerhouse that trains and raises money for women candidates. She also ran Bill Clinton's White House liaison operation, handling various constituency groups, including business. While working on China trade policy, she met her future husband Steve Champlin, a lobbyist for the Duberstein Group, but the two didn't really start to get to know each other until they found themselves with time to kill at the Seattle airport after the riotous WTO talks of 1999. Their courtship played out in a uniquely Beltway fashion. She asked him to the White House Millennium...
...speech details that hard-liners on Iraq wanted there but that Powell felt the available intelligence did not support. "He was only going to do the stuff that he was personally confident of and comfortable with," said his old friend and former White House chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein...
WorldCom's misdeeds are so big and brazen--and investor confidence is so fragile--that politicians can no longer afford to treat the accumulating scandals as anomalies in an otherwise healthy system. "The tipping point has been reached," says lobbyist Kenneth Duberstein, who served as chief of staff for Ronald Reagan. When the Senate Banking Committee passed new accounting regulations on June 18, few thought the bill would get the 60 votes it needed to overcome an almost certain filibuster. But after the WorldCom scandal broke, Daschle announced that the bill would be the first order of business when...