Holloway had initiated the case after Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, filed a complaint.

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The lawyer, David Kendall, said the White House, as well as top aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal, have joined the motion.

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Ms Scranton even hopes to attract speakers such as Bob Dole, Mr Clinton's Republican rival in 1996, David Kendall, his lawyer, and Newt Gingrich, his nemesis from the mid-1990s.

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Another was the appointment on September 15th of Gregory Craig, a State Department lawyer with a reputation for being a lot more street-smart in politics than Mr Clinton's private lawyer, David Kendall, to liaise with Congress.

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