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Dershowitz, a Democrat who said he voted for Clinton, said power may have been abused during a meeting of Bernard Nussbaum, White House counsel, and members of the Treasury about an FDIC investigation into Hillary Rodham Clinton's involvement with Whitewater...
...soon as news of the Nussbaum meetings with Treasury officials emerged, pressure built within the White House to dump him. By last Friday, Clinton's most influential advisers -- McLarty, David Gergen, George Stephanopoulos and Vice President Al Gore -- all agreed...
...while, there was resistance from Nussbaum, who wanted the resignation postponed to avoid the appearance that he had been forced out, and from a dwindling number of supporters. However, fed up with Washington and its rough handling of her husband, Nussbaum's wife Toby was relieved to see him leave the job. On Friday afternoon, tellingly, Clinton passed up two opportunities to defend Nussbaum in public. That evening he called his old friend into the Oval Office to discuss how the deed would be done. A reluctant Nussbaum agreed to go. His view, as a senior White House official...
When the Whitewater focus wasn't on Nussbaum, it turned toward the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, where Foster, the First Lady, Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell and White House lawyer Kennedy were all once partners, known collectively as "the Famous Four." Last week the firm added to the Whitewater saga that piece of office equipment vital to any full-fledged political scandal: a shredder. The New York Times reported that a college student who works at Rose told the federal grand jury convened by Fiske that in late January he and another employee were ordered to shred...
...Whitewater affair took its first high-profile Administration victim on Saturday when White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum tendered his resignation to Bill Clinton. Nussbaum was one of nine Clinton aides and Treasury Department officials upon whom the FBI served subpoenas at the behest of Whitewater special counsel Robert Fiske. Others included Harold Ickes, deputy chief of staff, and Margaret Williams, chief of staff for Hillary Rodham Clinton. The subpoenas followed damaging revelations of briefings between Treasury officials knowledgeable about a federal investigation of the Clintons' role in the Whitewater scandal and White House aides. The departure of Nussbaum, previously criticized...