He practised law in Little Rock and began serving as Deputy White House Counsel in 1994.
Starr, the dean of Pepperdine Law School, investigated the suicide of Clinton deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater affair.
The Supreme Court battle over the notes of former Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster ended with a decision that attorney-client privilege extends beyond the grave.
In testimony to Congress in 1995, Tripp defended White House conduct under the Clinton Administration in the aftermath of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster's 1993 suicide.
The legal document was filed on behalf of deputy White House counsel Bruce Lindsey in response to a pending lawsuit by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, which released it.
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Yet when deputy White House counsel Cheryl Mills brought him the news, first disclosed by TIME, Clinton responded in private much as he did last week in public: with frustration, but also with fatalistic detachment.
The two aides are White House Deputy Counsel Bruce Lindsey and communications adviser Sidney Blumenthal.
At issue are the notes taken by former White House deputy counsel Jane Sherburne following the first lady's testimony in January 1996 before a Whitewater grand jury in Washington.
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The other set of notes focused on a conversation about events following the death of Vincent Foster, who was White House deputy counsel and a close friend of the Clintons.
Lindsay -- who invoked executive privilege Tuesday when asked if he discussed the problem with President Clinton -- said Wednesday he had discussed the problem as high as then-Deputy Chief of Staff John Podesta and White House Counsel Charles Ruff, but never brought it directly to the attention of the president.
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Reno has indicated she will decide by January 29 whether to seek an independent counsel to investigate former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, a key figure in the Clinton-Gore campaign.
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The President was accompanied by his Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend, White House Counsel Harriet Miers, Press Spokesman Scott McClellan and the Director of White House Legislative Affairs, Candy Wolff.
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