AdviserHaroldIckes, who for monthshas beenurgingthe Clintonsto focuson ground-game vulnerabilities, is also ascendant, thanks in part tohiscloserelationshipwithWilliams.
Jamail's testimony was taken in 1999 but remained bottled up as the five tobacco lawyers-- Harold Nix , John O'Quinn , Wayne Reaud , Walter Umphrey and John Eddie Williams --fought to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep the records in the hands of a cooperative federal judge in Texarkana, Tex.
Leading the list of the 30 to 40 witnesses expected to testify are former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, presidential advisor Bruce Lindsey and the first lady's chief of staff, Margaret Williams.