Lloyd Cutler
Lloyd Cutler
Lloyd Norton Cutlerwas an American attorney, who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Carter and Clinton. He was also the trainer of the former Vice President of the European Parliament and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Stavros Lambrinidis...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth10 November 1917
CountryUnited States of America
ultimately upheld
And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.
admitted convinced embassy month seized taken within
I am convinced myself that if we had not admitted the Shah, within a month the embassy would have been seized and the hostages taken anyway.
differ interests treaty
We all differ in our assessments of how much we thought the treaty was in their interests so that they would live up to it, of course.
country immediate internal opportunity reasons unify
The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.
builds candidates cannot contribute including job remarkably simply
I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.
power
In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.
affairs asked assistant became economic job later law leave merger putting secretary small state together turn
Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.
believe interest means
I believe it was and is in their interest and that they would live up to it in the end and we have the means of verifying that they did live up to it.
lawyer argument responsible
It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.
running government difficult
I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.
europe important use
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.