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...department's investigations into Guaranty. She explained that since anyone appointed by her would still be seen as her operative, it would be better for experienced department investigators to carry on. With Reno's blessing, Justice officials picked a prosecutor with impeccable Republican credentials -- Donald Mackay, a fraud-section lawyer who was once a Nixon-appointed U.S. attorney -- to direct the criminal investigation of Madison and Whitewater. Which of these scandals will dog the President? Perhaps not the sexual imbroglio -- Americans knew Clinton had sinned but elected him anyway. Says William E. Leuchtenburg, professor of history at the University...
...February 1990 was not the same firebrand who had been placed there 27 years before. Born into the royal family of the Thembu, a clan of the Xhosa tribe based in the Transkei, Mandela was trained as a boy to rule someday as a chief. Instead he became a lawyer and an A.N.C. militant. It was just a few months after then A.N.C. leader Chief Albert Luthuli was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize that Mandela urged the party leadership to take up arms. Committed to nonviolence, Luthuli was deeply ambivalent about the proposition. . Mandela remembers Luthuli finally telling...
Ickes Joins White House Team Clinton named Harold Ickes, a New York labor lawyer and son of F.D.R.'s Secretary of the Interior, as his deputy chief of staff. Ickes will use his expertise as a tough political dealmaker to coordinate efforts to pass the President's health-care reform plan...
...advice, as they reveal their locations and play right into the baddies’ hands. But then, after the agents board a bus to find an abandoned cell phone, and the nephew gets off a different bus in safety, we are shown the text message he received from the lawyer right after hanging up, telling him to ditch the phone and divulging her real whereabouts. Awesome. And then, if you look hard enough, comes the social insight. The viewer is comfortable rooting for, among others, a convicted car thief and a deposed don against corrupt law enforcement...
...friendly” students continued for decades. One of the students, Joseph E. Lumbard ’22, who was never implicated in any overtly homosexual acts and was reinstated to the College after a year-long suspension, went on to become a prominent New York City lawyer. In 1953, as then-President Eisenhower considered Lumbard for a federal appointment, the FBI contacted the Harvard registrar to inquire about Lumbard’s unexplained one-year suspension. The registrar informed the FBI about Lumbard’s “association” with Roberts’ circle. Nonetheless, Eisenhower...