Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Administration, Reagan created a powerful new White House staff position with the title of Presidential Counsellor. The post will be filled by Meese, prime organizer of Reagan's campaign, who will have to work closely with the chief of the White House staff, James Baker. A Houston lawyer, Baker labored so successfully for George Bush in the primaries that he was quickly hired by the Reaganites after his man quit the race...
...positions quickly, he has given semiofficial status to his kitchen cabinet, composed mostly of longtime California business men friends. They dominate an 18-member Transition Appointments Committee, which is meeting in Los Angeles under the direction of William French Smith, Reagan's personal lawyer and a potential Attorney General...
...chief of the White House staff will be given to James Baker III, 50, a prominent Houston lawyer who rose rapidly in the Reagan hierarchy after joining the campaign in July. Baker's appointment, notes Meese with some satisfaction, shows that "the senior White House staff is not going to be nine guys from California...
...lacks Washington experience, as indeed do most of the members of Reagan's inner circle. If Meese does not become Chief of Staff, he might be named Attorney General. Coming up fast in the race for the top White House post is Jim Baker, a calm and collected lawyer from Houston who managed Ford's 1976 campaign, then George Bush's primary campaign, and joined Reagan after the G.O.P. Convention...
...union officials in fact needed permission, which Harvard proved they didn't receive. Rather than take the case to arbitration, the union decided to file an unfair labor practice suit with the NLRB. Crockett unwittingly signed the unfair labor practice suit, without being informed by the union's lawyer of the nature of the document. He returned from his summer vacation, received a call from the manager of custodial services, and unwittingly signed an affadavit supporting the University's position. Crockett acknowledges he was "confused...