but for most other modern presidents, there is somebody. president nixon went through not one, but two outside private lawyers. his first was a man names charles alan wright, the preeminent constitutional 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.
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
james st. clair that was richard nixon s special council came from the hold firm in boston. that s the irony and then the perspective it s been 20 years since mel gibson s conspiracy theory came out with his apartment full of maps and red lines and newspaper clippings. i m beginning to think there s some offices in mainstream media that have those kind of charts. there s lots of paperwork and in the end there was a conspiracy. tougher question, how does the trump agenda do next week on capitol hill when everybody is back? the agenda advanced with the conversation this week and the destruction of the so-called blue slip. that s very good on the judicial side. mitch mcconnell admitted also he has no current plan to get an obamacare package out by august. i hope that changes and the speaker told me this week that we have tax reform on the agenda
deals with banks. that s an inappropriate conversation. hue, back to you. i wanted to point out there was precedent for back channel. and three administrations in a row attempted russian resets. the ironry of course is that the war room is being set up in part by jamie gorelick. james st. claire, richard nixon s special counsel came from the same firm. then the perspective, it s been 20 years since mel gibson s conspiracy theory came out with his apartment full of maps and red lines and newspaper clippings. i m beginning to think there are some offices in mainstream media that have those kinds of charts. there are lots of dots that people are connecting rapidly. but the mcgivin in that film was in the end there was a conspiracy. tough question, how does the trump agenda do next week on capitol hill when everybody is back?
diplomacy and there is there s some kind of thing that might be nefarious. i thought the interesting point in the reuter s story, about is there a quid pro quo between relaxing sanctions and making deals with banks. that s an inappropriate conversation. hugh, back to you. i wanted to point out there was precedent for back channel. and three administrations in a row attempted russian resets. the ironry of course is that the war room is being set up in part by jamie gorelick. james st. claire, richard nixon s special counsel came from the same firm. then the perspective, it s been 20 years since mel gibson s conspiracy theory came out with his apartment full of maps and red lines and newspaper clippings. i m beginning to think there are some offices in mainstream media that have those kinds of charts. there are lots of dots that people are connecting rapidly.