Word: guiniers
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...dumping Guinier, Clinton was also forced to rebuff Reno, who supported the civil rights nominee. Reno had read Guinier's writings and found them to be merely "thought-provoking efforts on the part of a law professor to invigorate debate." Later she added, "I think if you look at her record, she'd be the best possible choice." At the White House, Reno was said to be deeply annoyed at the President's action, and the next day she gave Guinier the forum for a press conference at Justice to tell her side. In doing so, Reno was walking...
...postmortem assessment of the Guinier episode, many wondered how the Administration could have failed to learn from the Baird and Wood experiences. In the search for someone to blame, some pointed fingers at White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who cleared Guinier as well as the two previous failed candidates. A senior aide said there might have been an assumption that the Clintons were familiar with Guinier's record because she had been a friend of theirs since they had attended Yale Law School together...
...right-wing opposition to her nomination gathered force, the Administration tended to dismiss the criticism as no serious threat to confirmation. At that point, however, the White House would have needed to mount a concerted campaign to get Senate support for Guinier or cut her loose quickly. But the White House, distracted by troubles with its budget package, dithered. The Administration failed even to introduce Guinier to Senators, a job black lawyer and former Transportation Secretary William Coleman took upon himself to do. Such neglect hardened Guinier's resolve and sense of independence. By the time Clinton realized Guinier...
...episode served to focus minority groups not only on Guinier but also, in a possibly more enduring way, on Clinton's move toward the middle. "The people who put Bill Clinton in the White House are angry. To some extent, they do feel betrayed," declared Representative Kweisi Mfume of Maryland, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has 40 members. In an implied threat of political retribution, he added that the caucus was "reassessing and re- evaluating its relationship with this Administration...
...Guinier's demise was doubly demoralizing, coming on the heels of David Gergen's appointment, which horrified many of Clinton's eager young staff members. Gergen, back from a vacation in Bermuda that included a boat ride with Ross Perot, spent part of his first full day at work wandering the halls and hanging around the takeout window of the White House mess, greeting his colleagues like a maitre d'. In his first meeting with the communications staff, Gergen tried irony to defuse suspicion among the Young Turks, identifying nearby offices as the old haunts of former colleagues like William...