Word: guiniers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sheldon Hackney may be the next Lani Guinier...
...Clinton sat down at 7 p.m. in a yellow chair by the fireplace in the Oval Office for his first face-to-face meeting with Guinier since that happy day when he had announced her selection, the President looked more embattled than his nominee did. With deputy communications director Ricki Seidman as the only witness, the meeting turned out to be more emotional, painful and time- consuming than the staff had anticipated. Guinier urged Clinton to go ahead with her Senate hearings; she believed that Senators would judge her as a whole person, not just by her writings, and would...
...rode last week in a helicopter to a housing construction site in Frederick, Maryland, President Clinton pored over a marked-up, highlighted and dog-eared copy of the legal writings of Lani Guinier. It was far too late for him to emerge undamaged from her nomination to be Assistant Attorney General for civil rights, but he hoped to find that the views of his nominee had been misread. Gradually and reluctantly, he came to the conclusion that even if some of them had been, his beliefs and Guinier's could not be reconciled. When he huddled in late afternoon with...
This went on for so long that after half an hour passed without the door opening, the President's newest aide, David Gergen, who had hinted to reporters that Clinton was dropping Guinier's nomination, told reporters phoning him on deadline that he could no longer say for sure what would happen...
...President never explicitly told Guinier to withdraw, says a source close to her. "He went around it 25 different ways, and she never volunteered anything." But the final moments of the conversation were awkward because it was clearly the end of the issue. The trio at last emerged from the 75-minute session with reddened eyes -- and 45 minutes later, the President mounted the podium in the press room to kill the nomination. Gripping the lectern and raising his fists, showing more emotion than he had expressed at any time since the dog days of New Hampshire, he said...