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...corridors of power are populated with many of Hillary's old friends, from White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who used to give his young law clerk Hillary a ride home when she first worked in Washington; to Deputy Attorney General Webb Hubbell, who was the managing partner of her law firm and the former mayor of Little Rock. Hillary had a strong say in the appointment of pal Donna Shalala as Health and Human Services Secretary, although the friendship grew complicated after Hillary grabbed the health out of the Secretary's title and Shalala blurted out that a value-added...
...process. Officials claim that when she was first reached by phone while vacationing in Colorado, she was asked, "Do you have an illegal-alien or tax problem?" She answered no. She was then summoned to Washington. In separate meetings on Jan. 29 with White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and President Clinton, the illegal-alien issue was pressed a second and third time. In each instance, Wood denied any problem. Six days later, the vetting process began in earnest. Wood sent her household-employment records by overnight express to Washington, at which point Administration lawyers say they learned about the baby...
...Clinton Administration, still laboring with an incomplete Cabinet, now risks a fresh round of bickering. Late last week White House officials were chastising Nussbaum for not pressing his would-be nominee hard enough for information. The two other top candidates for the Attorney General's post seemed to lose favor. Washington lawyer Charles Ruff was said to have illegal- alien problems of his own, while former Virginia Governor Gerald Baliles lacked enthusiastic support. If so, Clinton will have to send out his search party one more time...
...Herb Kohl brusquely inquired, "Have you asked yourself whether or not you might serve . . . best by withdrawing your nomination?" Baird replied, "I don't believe that would be appropriate," leaving tea-leaf readers to divine that Clinton's support remained intact. During the lunch break, White House aides Bernie Nussbaum and Howard Paster sprinted to the Hill to take Baird's pulse. The result: full-speed ahead, Baird told them. But during that same break, Senators of both parties caucused, and the mood perceptibly began to shift against Baird. Five Southern Democrats told majority leader George Mitchell that they could...
...Nussbaum is a partner in a New York law firmand worked as senior counsel to the HouseJudiciary Committee when it considered impeachmentof Richard Nixon...