Word: ruff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clearly, nothing Clinton did sinks to the depths of what Nixon did, such as using the IRS to hound opponents and dispatching the CIA to thwart an FBI investigation. The claim that Clinton abused the counsel's office by invoking privilege claims is "nonsense," said White House counsel Charles Ruff, a respected former Watergate prosecutor and U.S. Attorney. "He did so on my advice. I went to the President and said the independent counsel is seeking to intrude into the legitimate, confidential discussions you have with your lawyers and that your senior staff have among themselves. It is your obligation...
...they say Starr never proves that Clinton intended to lie--a requirement for perjury. One rebuttal says Starr's real complaint about Clinton's gifts testimony is that he "was not more forthcoming," which doesn't count as perjury. Perhaps realizing all this sounds like hairsplitting, lawyer Charles Ruff told reporters that "legal language" doesn't diminish the President's apologies...
...there any way the White House can block release? Clinton attorney Charles Ruff has supposedly set up lines of communication with committee chair Henry Hyde; if they fail, aides expect that Democrats will threaten the end of bipartisan cooperation. Not that the word "bipartisan" has much currency anymore in a House where each member seems to have his own solution to the crisis. In the end, perhaps the only thing that will keep the GOP from letting the tapes be broadcast is the fear of public backlash. After all, Clinton always comes back strongest when he is most under fire...
...debate inside the White House about whether Clinton should testify was tightly limited to six lawyers: Kendall, Ruff, Bennett, associate counsel Cheryl Mills, Kendall's colleague Nicole Seligman and Mickey Kantor. Each morning the inner circle met by conference call, with out-of-body participation by Kantor, calling in from Hong Kong. The instincts of Kendall had always been for Clinton to say as little as possible for as long as possible. None of the more political-minded advisers, such as Kantor and Bennett, could overcome Kendall's doctrine that no news was good news. Kendall often said little during...
...radar that when the President's lawyer dealt Starr his most significant setback, it took nearly a month before word got out of the judge's chambers. Even Clinton's own strategists had no inkling that something serious had happened until last Tuesday morning, when White House counsel Charles Ruff warned them that the reporters covering the comings and goings of grand-jury witnesses were likely to notice some extra activity that day on the fifth floor of the federal courthouse...