First of all, I think it would be well to clarify the point that the president's counsel stands as the president's counsel.
There's the President's budget, there's the President's proposal to the super committee.
Contrast this with the House Judiciary Committee's conduct in the matter of President Nixon's impeachment when the President's lawyers sat in with the committee in its closed sessions when committee staff presented findings of fact.
Mr. WILKERSON: What happened was that the secretary of Defense, under the cover of the vice president's office, began to create an environment--and this started from the very beginning when David Addington, the vice president's lawyer, was a staunch advocate of allowing the president in his capacity as commander in chief to deviate from the Geneva Conventions.
While she did not know the nature of his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, Ms. Currie did know and would have testified to Ms. Lewinsky's visits in 1997, the notes and messages that Ms. Lewinsky sent the president, the gifts that Ms. Lewinsky sent the president, and the president's support of her efforts to get Ms. Lewinsky a job.
CNN: Transcript: White House Deputy Counsel Mills' statement
The President -- the story of the President's life has been told, and not least by the President himself in his own memoir.
The main reason for their confidence was that the president's party normally does badly in midterm elections since the civil war, the president's party has gained seats only once and this tendency is especially marked for second-term presidents.
Behind the scenes, the president's aides admit they were concerned the defense seemed to pin so much of its case on the president's testimony, but they say they were relived when the prosecution itself discredited Hale.
In his endorsement this morning during the interview, as Jay mentioned, he talked not just about the President's leadership on foreign policy issues, but the Affordable Care Act and the President's steps he took to bring the economy back from the brink.
Amid a campaign season in which the candidates are promising change, Steve Inskeep talks to two former White House chiefs of staff about what the next president's priorities should be, and about some of the limitations on the president's ability to affect change.
Luc van den Brande, who headed the delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, said officials had brought the "overwhelming influence of the president's office and the president" to bear on the campaign, and that "administrative resources" had been used to influence the outcome.
But at the White House, there was huge pushback from the president's counsel, Alberto Gonzales and the vice president's counsel, David Addington.
"Under the president's own tax proposals, including limitations on the value of tax preferences for high-income households, he would pay more in taxes while ensuring we cut taxes for the middle class and those trying to get in it, " said White House press secretary Jay Carney in a statement accompanying the release of the president's and vice-president's tax returns.
Albright continued negotiations with Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov after the Russian official's meeting with President Bill Clinton yielded no progress on the thorny issue, which could complicate the president's meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin this Friday in Helsinki, Finland.
You've got a news reporter for a national publication, two days before the president's deposition, talking to the president's secretary saying, I need to see the courier records of the White House.
During the deposition itself, the president's attorney stated that the president was, in his words, "fully familiar" with the affidavit.
Since you laid out the criteria where the President decides when he thinks the U.S. government should apologize, is the President seeking an apology from President Karzai for the fact that U.S. service personnel were killed because of this?
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest
Las Vegas, one of the hardest hit cities in the country in terms of unemployment, foreclosures -- some of the President's fellow Democrats, like Harry Reid, Oscar Goodman, the mayor, have been upset about the President's comments about Vegas.
"There's been too much spending under the Republicans over the last couple of years, but if you begin to look at what's happen over the last month and what's being proposed in this budget, the president's beginning to make President Bush like a piker when it comes to spending, " said Rep. John Boehner, the House minority leader.
The campaign -- and I refer you to the President's campaign for discussions of campaign advertising, paid for by the President's campaign.
Sifting through the guests invited to official events involving the president, it's clear that labor leaders have the president's ear.
"The majority would vote to overturn the president's veto on this, but enough of a minority wants to stay with the president's position on this that that veto is likely to be sustained, " said Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health who helped design the poll.
The real issue here is not the truth of the underlying statements made by the president in the Jones deposition but the president's explanation of those statements.
By not including it in the President's proposal, is the President saying as far as he's concerned it's dead?
One of the great myths generated by the president's opponents is that he justified action by claiming the threat posed by Saddam's regime was imminent.2 Well, the stubborn fact is, that wasn't the president's claim--in fact, he specifically disclaimed that rationale for his decision.
Freeh's highly publiclized difference of opinion with Attorney General Janet Reno over the issue of seeking an independent counsel to investigate the president's and vice president's fund-raising activities has certainly influenced the way the White House views Freeh.
Even after the embarrassing playout of the Obama-invented Great Sequester Game, after the fiasco of the president's Fiscal Cliff Game, conventional wisdom among Democrats holds that disunited Republicans will be routed in the 2014 midterm elections, leaving an open field for the president's agenda in the final two years of his term.
Historian Victor Davis Hanson cites what he terms, "The President's politically correct canard that the Renaissance was fueled by Arab learning, and the President's statement that abolition of slavery and civil rights in the U.S. were accomplished without violence, " as two of seven presidential errors.
The fact that all the updates on the president's health are delivered by members of his party rather than the medical team treating him has fuelled speculation within Venezuela and abroad about the president's state.
The main opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front (NSF), subsequently said it would boycott the polls because the electoral law favoured the president's Islamist allies - a claim the president denied.
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