Article: White House Counsel Ready to Quit; Six Senior Members of Clinton Staff Get Subpoenas From Whitewater Special Counsel

White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum yesterday told President Clinton he will resign this weekend as he and five other senior White House officials were subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating a failed Arkansas savings and loan with ties to the Clintons.

Both the resignation and the subpoenas stem from the disclosure this week that White House and Treasury officials had three meetings where they discussed the status of an investigation of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and its connections with Whitewater Development Corp., a land development venture in which the Clintons were partners.

The action brings the Madison case directly into the White House, a bitter blow to President ...

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