Word: vincent
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...spent a brief time in private practice, became an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal under Leon Jaworski and rose steadily through top-level posts at the Justice Department and White House. During one tour, he was Ronald Reagan's deputy White House counsel, the job the late Vincent Foster held under Clinton at the time of his death last July. After becoming U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in 1988, Stephens directed the successful prosecution of former Washington Mayor Marion Barry on drug charges...
...Little Rock have always liked to operate near the center of power. Their first woman partner was Hillary Rodham Clinton, who got the title in 1979, the same year her husband became Governor. When she became First Lady, she took three other partners with her to Washington, where Vincent Foster and William Kennedy became White House counsels and Webster Hubbell was named Associate Attorney General. The future looked so promising that Rose opened a one-man Washington operation to explore opportunities for establishing a permanent office...
...Attorney General and the choice of an easily targeted Lani Guinier for a top Justice Department post, earned him the reputation of a Beltway naif and worse. Until last week the most serious charges against him involved his actions after the apparent suicide last year of White House lawyer Vincent Foster, when Nussbaum interfered in investigators' attempts to examine Foster's office and removed some records, including files pertaining to Whitewater. It was an odd notion of propriety for a man who did his first stint in Washington on the staff of the House Watergate committee...
...damaging revelations of briefings between Treasury officials knowledgeable about a federal investigation of the Clintons' role in the Whitewater scandal and White House aides. The departure of Nussbaum, previously criticized for his involvement in the White House travel-office fiasco and the investigation into the death of deputy counsel Vincent Foster, is unlikely to appease Republicans, who have been pressing yet harder for congressional Whitewater hearings...
...more potentially embarrassing news for the President. Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell acknowledged that the firm had questioned him about his billing practices while he was a lawyer there, but he denied any improprieties. There were also reports that documents had been taken and shredded from the files of Vincent Foster, the former Rose and White House lawyer whose suicide is under investigation. The firm denied that any Foster files were destroyed...