Lanny Davis
Lanny Davis
Lanny Jesse Davisis an American lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television commentator. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a special counsel to President Bill Clinton, and was a spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues...
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But they now are living day to day without having the slightest idea about how to control where this is going.
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I know people who describe him as a very decent man. So he starts out with a reservoir of open-mindedness among even arch-liberal Democrats like myself.
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It's deja vu all over again. We made the same arguments in the Clinton administration and ultimately we surrendered. And Sandy Berger testified on the China matter and campaign finance. Sooner or later, transparency wins out over that principle. You might as well do it earlier rather than later.
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There's no cause and effect between that particular incident and the policy that had been debated and evolving way before those contributions came in.
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Tell it early, tell it all and tell it yourself. The rules are the same whether you're a president, a corporate CEO or a baseball player.
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But for peaceful purposes and when agreements can be worked out and when understandings can be had then what we are talking about is economic development opportunities, peaceful and useful opportunities... Then I think we are on the same page.
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Many lawyers are, media-wise, brain-dead. Bob gets how to be a lawyer and communicate effectively. Lawyers cannot operate just by no-commenting anymore.
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Since last August, the new chairman of the board, Roel Pieper, came up against a cesspool of financial issues,
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We gave them what we thought they wanted.
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It's a self-created nightmare. Cheney took a non-story, or a minor story, and created a huge negative story because of his stubbornness and his arrogance.
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The news today is just the tip of the iceberg for L & H. This is a classic story of the chicken coming home to roost.
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I recommend that Cheney do a press conference and answer every question,
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In this presumption-of-guilt culture, which is what has come about in Washington in the last 10 or 15 years, there must be a sense of anger there and an inability to manage the facts.
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Finally, we are going to have the chance to have a court hear the facts that the prosecutors refused to allow the jury to hear, which is why 5 out of 12 jurors asked for this result. Truth and facts are what make our system of justice work.