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After months of resisting pressure to resign, fbi Director William Sessions said he would leave only if President Clinton fired him; Clinton obliged and promptly nominated U.S. District Judge Louis Freeh for the position. A former fbi agent, Freeh, 43, first made a name for himself as a federal prosecutor in New York City, where he helped obtain the 1987 convictions of a Mafia drug- dealing ring in the Pizza Connection cases...
...10th-grader at a Roman Catholic boys school in New Jersey, Louis Freeh was "very quiet, very serious and very intelligent," recalls his English teacher, Clyde Borg. "Louis did everything he was supposed to do," says Borg. "I don't think he ever got into trouble." Maybe that was part of his plan. By the 10th grade, Freeh had already known for six years that he wanted to work...
...Freeh (pronounced Free) did become an FBI agent, as well as a federal prosecutor and, two years ago, a federal judge. And last week, even before he arrived at the White House for a sun-soaked Rose Garden ceremony, Freeh was being hailed in a chorus of praise as an ideal choice to be the Federal Bureau of Investigation's next director. In nominating the 43-year-old judge, President Bill Clinton called Freeh "a law-enforcement legend." That sounded like silly hype, except that Clinton's assessment was matched by so many others, including those of Democrats and Republicans...
...Freeh was not the first person the President considered, nor is he a member of the President's circle of friends. But after Clinton's original choice, Massachusetts State Judge Richard Stearns, an old Oxford buddy, withdrew from contention, Freeh came so highly recommended to the White House that no one else was ever seriously considered...
Throughout his career, his friends and colleagues say, Freeh has been the straightest of arrows, a diligent worker and devoted family man who remained unpretentious despite his success. "Louie is just a cut above," says Richard Martin, who worked with Freeh as a federal prosecutor. "He has a moral core that really distinguishes...