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...after the hearings had come to a close, the nightmare began again. A three-judge panel in Washington stunned the White House by replacing independent counsel Robert Fiske, who had been chosen by Attorney General Janet Reno in January, with Kenneth Starr, a tough, conservative lawyer who served as solicitor general under George Bush. The panel, acting under a law passed by Congress earlier this year, wanted to guarantee that the Whitewater investigation would be truly independent...
...admired Richard Nixon. "I really identified with Nixon because of his rather humble roots," Starr has said. Today, as a 48-year-old lawyer and veteran of the Reagan and Bush Administrations, he speaks wishfully of Dan Quayle's political future. "If President Quayle asked me to become the solicitor general again, I'd do it," he told TIME in a recent interview. His appointment has Republicans cheering and Democrats worried. Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa calls Starr's credentials "impeccable." A Clinton adviser labels Starr "a partisan...
...Starr's credentials as a partisan are impeccable. Ronald Reagan appointed him to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where one of his major rulings was to strike down an affirmative-action hiring plan for fire fighters. George Bush named him U.S. Solicitor General, the government's lawyer in Supreme Court cases, a role in which he argued in favor of a flag-burning ban. In 1990 Starr was on Bush's short list for the Supreme Court. Starr has argued against President Clinton's request for temporary immunity from the Paula Jones...
...surprise move on Friday, a special three-member judicial panel charged with administering the newly re-enacted independent-counsel law appointed Kenneth Starr, the Bush Administration's Solicitor General, to replace Robert Fiske as the special Whitewater prosecutor. The court said its decision was no reflection on Fiske's capabilities or integrity but stemmed from the need to maintain "the appearance of independence." In the law's absence, Fiske was specially appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno earlier this year...
...When Cox rejected that idea, Nixon on Oct. 20 angrily told Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson refused and resigned instead. Nixon told Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox; he too refused and resigned. General Alexander Haig, Haldeman's successor as White House chief of staff, finally got Solicitor General Robert Bork to do the job, and so the "Saturday Night Massacre" ended, leaving the Nixon Administration a shambles. (In the midst of all this, it was almost incidental that Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned under fire for having taken graft and that he was replaced by Michigan Congressman...