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...BERNARD NUSSBAUM...
...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...
...Monday morning, May 24, calls were flooding into Reno's office, and the Attorney General asked press aide Carl Stern to find out how the FBI had become involved. On getting his report, says an associate, Reno "wheeled in her chair and called Bernie Nussbaum" in the White House counsel's office. Calmly but firmly, she insisted that "potential" as well as "pending" investigations be cleared through her. Nussbaum's reply: "We didn't do anything wrong, but it won't happen again...
...Clinton will still rely on a staff that has almost no White House or executive experience. Political director Rahm Emanuel, a campaign fund raiser, is unsuited as a party enforcer and is widely blamed for being too enamored of Hollywood for the President's good. White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, a former Watergate committee staff lawyer who gave Hillary Rodham Clinton her first job, is seen by almost everyone in the White House as a political bumbler who has given his boss poor guidance on a host of matters from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Lani Guinier...
Just as troubling is Clinton's apparent resistance to discipline. He has extended automatic walk-in rights to the Oval Office -- a privilege that is heavily restricted by most Presidents -- to nearly a dozen people: Hillary, McLarty, Lindsey, Gore, Stephanopoulos, Neel, Nussbaum, economic chief Bob Rubin, personal assistant Nancy Hernreich and National Security Adviser Tony Lake. The open-door policy has forced him to be his own chief of staff and caused the White House to move in too many directions at once, with little coordination...