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...next day Solicitor General Charles Fried personally urged Meese to resign. Finally, Strom Thurmond, one of the Senate's most conservative Republicans, marched into the Attorney General's office to express the "deep concern" of his Capitol Hill colleagues about the example Meese was setting as the nation's top law-enforcement officer...
After the resignations, speculation quickly shifted to whether Solicitor General Charles Fried would quit too. Fried, who represents the Government before the Supreme Court, sought the advice of Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell. The 80-year-old Powell described Fried as "very upset and concerned." When Meese urged Fried to stay on the job, the anguished official declined to give a flat promise to do so. Instead, he told Meese that the turmoil in the department would not end until Meese stepped aside...
Later Fried announced vaguely that he would remain as long as he is "able to lead the office of Solicitor General with integrity and effectiveness." He made it clear that he would not accept promotion to any of the higher vacancies...
...members of the advisory committee were:Archibald Cox '34, Loeb University ProfessorEmeritus and former solicitor general; Robert E.Keeton, Federal District Judge and former Harvardlaw professor; Anthony T. Kronman, chairman of theYale Law School appointments committee; Ellen A.Peters, Chief Justice of the Connecticut SupremeCourt and former Yale law professor; and Harry H.Wellington, Yale law professor and former Yaledean...
Phoebe M. Bruck, chairperson of the Harvard Square Advisory Committee which acts as a mandatory intermediary between developers and the city's planning board, said that the city solicitor has to define which zoning laws apply in this situation before the board can make a decision about the amount of parking that the developer must build...