The Baker in Baker Botts is of course Bush family lawyer James Baker the lawyer credited with winning Florida for Bush Jr. over Gore and Secretary of State under Bush Sr.

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Baker, a shrewd corporate lawyer and Secretary of State for George H.

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David Pettit, a lawyer at the National Resources Defence Council and one of those environmentalists who so frustrate Mr Baker, says that he fully understands the threat posed by the canal.

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