Word: nelsons
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...Attorneys scandal has raised many more questions than it has answered, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' prepared testimony was designed to make those questions even harder to answer. But experts agree on one aspect of the controversy. "Have [Administration officials] violated the Presidential Records Act?" asks Scott Nelson, a lawyer who represented the estate of Richard Nixon in a fight over his official papers. "There's no other conclusion I can reach." Says Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archives: "The only question is whether they did it intentionally or sloppily...
...Nelson supported the idea put forth at the meeting of releasing the names of the two or three Houses that performed most strongly in each area so that they could provide the other Houses with a usable model...
...like the suggestion of showing top performers...so [under-performing Houses] know to whom they should talk, and we can absolutely do that,” Nelson said...
...next step in using the data will likely be to have small groups of students work with their House administrators to make changes based on conclusions drawn from the survey results, Nelson said...
...House Committees] should sit with the House masters and talk about the findings,” Nelson said. “I think it would be more effective if it was done at the local level...