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Article: BUSH'S STAKE IN CHOOSING MEESE'S SUCCESSOR
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 8, 1988
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WASHINGTON - It was as though Michael Spinks got off the mat
after being flattened by Mike Tyson and said, "He never laid a
glove on me."
There was Attorney General Edwin Meese telling the American
people that he had been cleared by the special prosecutor office
because he had not been recommended for indictment.
He had dodged the bullet for putting in the fix at the White
House on the Middle East pipeline deal; he had just barely escaped
from going to jail for putting the fix in for a crowd of confessed
bandits that ripped off the government in a series of military
contracts delivered to the Wedtech Corp. with Meese's fingerprints
all over them; and if he was not criminally guilty, ...