Going ... going ...; how the White House booted the nomination of Judge...

U.S. News & World Report;  October 12, 1987 ;     700+ words ......by its own members. The White House had intended to play the...Court nomination of Judge Robert Bork had gone way past the stage...political survival-for the White House, some moderate Republicans...Bork himself chastised the White House for failing to do more...session ...

To the bitter end; Robert Bork's decision to fight intensifies an already...

U.S. News & World Report;  October 19, 1987 ;     700+ words ......mathematical impossibility, Robert Bork refused to concede defeat...frustrated-- both with his White House defenders, who botched their...matter of main concern at the White House, the nomination was first...of political survival. The White House, which predicted a ...

Impact: Interview With Robert Bork

The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News Network);  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......determined replacement. Judge Robert Bork joins us now from McLean...replacing Sandra Day O'Connor? ROBERT BORK: Well, in the first place...who was involved in the White House during your confirmation...things that happened is the White House did not take seriously...it ...

White House readying campaign for Thomas

The Boston Globe;  July 28, 1991 ;     700+ words ......support. And last week, the White House and the Justice Department...This is no replay of the Robert Bork nomination battle of 1987...Bork. President Reagan's White House, so convinced that Bork...nothing. This time, the White House, using many of the techniques...said ...

JUDGE ROBERT BORK, MARTIN ANDERSON WRITE ON IMPEACHMENT

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  November 24, 1997 ;     471 words ......Representative Bob Barr (GA-7) JUDGE ROBERT BORK, MARTIN ANDERSON WRITE ON IMPEACHMENT Judge Robert Bork, in a review of The Impeachement...First, Cheryl Mills, Deputy White House Counsel, testified under...illegally merge the official White House database with the DNC ...

White House Gang That Couldn't `Vet' Straight // Faulty Checks Undercut...

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 19, 1995 ;     644 words ......buzzword in Washington is "vetting," and the White House is abysmal at it. Vetting is what used to be...background check, and the parade of failed White House nominees, disgraced officials, withdrawn job...The FBI passed the information along to the White House before Cisneros was ...

Into the trenches over Bork. (Robert Bork)

U.S. News & World Report;  August 17, 1987 ;     700+ words ......social policy: Who is the real Robert Bork? Is he, as the White House asserted last week, a mainstream...Peter Keisler, a lawyer at the White House, which put out its own list...candidates in the 1988 race for the White House. Photo: Bork: The record in...

Decorum in the Rose Garden; Remember, the White House makes the rules.

The Washington Post;  October 11, 1987 ;     700+ words ......the majority opinion of White House reporters as offensive...And that's the way the White House wants it. So it was that...Office. Never mind that White House officials confirm that he expected a question about Robert Bork and had his answer ready...viewers. But though ...

The trials and tribulations of getting to court; after Bork. (Robert Bork)

U.S. News & World Report;  November 2, 1987 ;     410 words ......days of Senate debate--and a plea from Robert Bork himself to end it--before the die was...conservative Republicans last week assailed White House nominee William Dwyer of Washington...plus an expected stronger push from the White House to nail down Reagan's legacy in the...

Top White House officials have indicated that the president will withdraw...

NPR Morning Edition;  June 3, 1993 ;     700+ words ......is fading in the Senate and the White House. The New York Times reports today...Guatemala. On this day in 1965, Ed White became the first American to walk...week. That, the assessment of top White House officials and Senate sources...Senate Judiciary Committee and the White ...

Foster follies. (abortion politics, poor White House preparation...

Newsweek;  February 20, 1995 ;     700+ words ...ROBERT BORK, JOHN TOWER, CLARENCE Thomas...unfairly eclipsed by the White House's inept handling of a politically...have been a warning to the White House. It was to Kansas Sen...official at the jan. 28 White House welfare summit, Kassebaum...

SPECTER READY TO FORCE SHOWDOWN GOP SENATOR EMERGES AS WHITE HOUSE RIVAL...

The Boston Globe;  June 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ......emerged this week as a nemesis that the Bush White House hasn't had to face: A subpoena-wielding...Senate have been unwilling to challenge the White House. Democrats have howled in protest but remain...and lawmakers' checks on the power of the White House. That spurred the unusual ...

Pilot disembarks. (resignation of White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker)

The Economist (US);  June 18, 1988 ;     567 words ......Howard Baker joined the White House as chief of staff in February...together majorities for the White House. He left the Senate in...Congress, where the Reagan White House suffered its worst defeat...the Supreme Court, Judge Robert Bork. Only after the stockmarket...Mr ...

Pennsylvania upstart could give White House headaches Pat Toomey says he...

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......party. The political savants in the White House may think that Toomey's plan, although...why Andrew Card, chief of staff of a White House that is not bashful about intervening...confirming Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Toomey says...More than anyone ...

Left and right gear up for High Court warfare White House Letter

International Herald Tribune;  June 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Caught in the middle was the White House, which had its own war plan...spectacles of the failed Robert Bork nomination in 1987 and the...preference and gay rights.At the White House, the plan is to run the...Harriet Miers, the low-profile White House counsel, once ...