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...Clinton moves quickly to name a successor, it is likely that the furor will die out. Chief of staff McLarty and counselor Bruce Lindsey will oversee the new selection process. To his credit, Clinton assumed full responsibility for the blunder. Moreover, once the nomination began to crumble, he retreated swiftly, recovering with some grace from a nasty stumble...
Advisers Bruce Lindsey and Robert Reich...
...Lindsey is also the official worrier, often pacing in the back of the room, not easily contented. Last week it was he who fretted to associates that the vacuum created by the Governor's lack of activity in the early days of the transition had created a number of not fully favorable stories. "Bruce isn't satisfied if the Governor just hits the ball out of the park," George Stephanopoulos, the campaign's communications director, is fond of saying. "That ball has to go out of the park, over the river and through an apartment window...
...significantly, Lindsey's protest was within the Establishment: he fought to make his fraternity pledge a black friend (and resigned as a member when the national organization balked), and he fought to drop some curriculum requirements, arguing that academic standards in those courses were so low that students were not learning anything. In the summer of 1968 he worked in Senator J. William Fulbright's office in Washington, where he met Clinton and a group of other bright young anti-Vietnam War idealists, and he returned to a job there upon graduating in 1971. He earned a law degree...
...past 20 years in Arkansas, Lindsey has managed to be counselor to the state's three most prominent -- and sometimes rival -- political egos: Clinton, Senator Pryor and Senator Dale Bumpers. He is their "conscience," they say, and their walking institutional memory. "Bill looks up and sees Bruce in the room and feels rooted," says Clinton's longtime friend Carolyn Staley. That is largely because the President-elect knows that Lindsey will never change: that he will always wear khaki pants and a navy blazer, that he will always have the latest political biography on his shelf, that he can sing...