president bill clinton retained big name lawyers david kendall, bob bennett to represent him during the monica lewinsky affair. so presidents hire outside counsel. presents use outside lawyers when they ve got scandals to deal with. usually high-profile lawyers at high-profile law firms. and those kinds of lawyers, those kinds of law firms usually line up to represent the president. no matters the scandal, it s representing the president of the united states. except when it comes to this president. president trump being rebuffed by big law firms is not only an anomaly when it comes to recent presidential history. it also raises this very practical, immediate question of whether or not he s going to have the best possible defense. i mean, following tonight s reporting, front page of the washington post, looks like he might need it more than ever. is he going to get as good a defense as other presidents would get? hold that thought. there s an answer.
lawyers. his first was a man names charles alan wright, the preempent in institutional lawyer of his time. wright, however, was unsuccessful in his efforts to prevent nixon from having to hand over the white house tapes. and so nixon canned him. replaced him with another prominent lawyer names james st. clair. st. clair defended the decision to withhold the tapes all the way up to the supreme court before they lost that case. during iran/contra, president reagan retained republican super lawyer ted olson as his private counsel. ronald reagan s successor, president george h.w. bush hired jimmy carter s attorney general, griffin bell, to be his private outside lawyer when the iran/contra issues followed him into his term as president. president bill clinton retained big name lawyers david kendall, bob bennett to represent him during the monica lewinsky affair. so presidents hire outside