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...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...
When the Whitewater focus wasn't on Nussbaum, it turned toward the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, where Foster, the First Lady, Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell and White House lawyer Kennedy were all once partners, known collectively as "the Famous Four." Last week the firm added to the Whitewater saga that piece of office equipment vital to any full-fledged political scandal: a shredder. The New York Times reported that a college student who works at Rose told the federal grand jury convened by Fiske that in late January he and another employee were ordered to shred...
...Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas -- where Mrs. Clinton used to ply her trade -- generated 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...
Washington -- Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell is snarling communications between the Justice Department and the White House, claim sources at the department. Hubbell is Hillary Clinton's former law partner and Bill Clinton's golfing buddy and functions as Attorney General Janet Reno's link with the White House. But the big-picture Hubbell tends to focus on issues that interest him and lets crucial details fall through the cracks. Justice aides say that's one reason the White House is sniping about being blindsided by Reno...
...March 2, 1989. A few days before, Vincent Foster, then a partner in Rose Law Firm, wrote to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which had temporarily taken responsibility for dealing with failed thrifts, seeking a contract for Rose to represent the regulators. Rose in fact got the business, and Webster Hubbell, a partner who has since become Associated U.S. Attorney General, brought a $6 million suit on behalf of the regulators against Madison's accountants; he settled for $1 million...