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...review by the White House counsel's office include U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller of San Francisco, who assisted Ashcroft until Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson was sworn in last week; George Terwilliger, No. 2 at Justice in the first Bush Administration and a lawyer for W. during the Florida recount; Stephen Trott, a federal appellate judge and former Reagan Administration Justice Department official; and Ronald Noble, who currently leads Interpol. Choosing Noble, an African American, would help silence criticism that the bureau remains a conservative-white-male bastion...
Besides the candidates themselves, few people had a greater stake than Brazile in the outcome of the November election-an election that lasted through December, ending with the Supreme Court injunction to stop a recount in the state of Florida, the deciding factor that propelled then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush into the While House over former Vice President Gore...
...only after Gore had called Bush to congratulate him and began preparing a concession speech did the tide turn once again, with the announcement that Florida was once again too close to call, and would have to undergo an automatic recount...
...None of her previous campaign work, however, prepared her for the long recount battle in Florida that ended only 35 days later...
...Supreme Court's deeply divided 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore on Dec. 12 stopped the recount, effectively ending Gore's chances for the presidency...