Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oklahoma's David Boren, who thinks the deal relies too heavily on taxes, has been getting the VIP treatment: he met with Clinton on Saturday, with David Gergen on Sunday, spoke with chief of staff Mack McLarty on Monday, and even received a prized visit from Janet Reno on Tuesday. Two days later, he had lunch with Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. Boren seems to be undergoing something of a personal crisis over the vote, talking at length to nearly everyone and acknowledging, "This isn't fun for me. Everyone is very cordial to my face, then I hear they...
Chief of Staff Mack McLarty did not want to disturb the 27 little pieces of torn yellow paper carefully assembled on the table. And so last Tuesday, as Attorney General Janet Reno entered his corner office for a meeting, he gingerly took his seat at the head of the table. The day before, the scraps had come fluttering out of the briefcase of Vincent Foster Jr. as it was being packed for his widow. They may contain all that will ever be known about his final thoughts...
...group gathered was concerned with a specific issue. Was there material in the note protected by Executive privilege? After a nearly 60- minute discussion, the group -- which included Reno's deputy Philip Heymann , -- decided that no such protection was involved. At 8 p.m. a U.S. Park policeman arrived and swept the scraps off the mahogany table into a White House envelope...
...Fifth and 14th Amendments' support of equal protection under the law. The government is already prepared to defend its policy against Clinton's old allies in the gay civil rights movement. In a memorandum to the President early last week that defended the new regulations as constitutional, Janet Reno wrote that First Amendment challenges by gays would probably be rejected by the courts because "the policy is not directed at speech or expression itself," but, presumably, at the habits the speech suggested...
Unfortunately for their cause, gay soldiers fall into two of the categories most likely to be exempted from some constitutional guarantees: soldiers . . . and gays. Reno's memo opened with the sentence, "The Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that the courts must review decisions by . . . military commanders deferentially." In the name of national defense, the court has repeatedly yielded to the military on issues ranging from a prohibition of yarmulkes to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. To this, Kevin Cathcart, executive director of the gay-rights group Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, responds, "The military...