Bush Brings Back Nixon Lawyer

How effing appropriate!

Daily Herald | Business:

WASHINGTON — In his first job at the White House, Fred Fielding, barely in his 30s, broke the news to President Nixon’s top lawyer about the Watergate break-in.

In 1981, when President Reagan was shot and lying on an operating table, it was Fielding who helped settle a dispute about who was in charge of the nation. A few years later, Reagan’s counsel stood at the president’s bedside, making sure he was competent to reclaim his authority after cancer surgery.

Now, more than two decades later, President Bush has brought the 67-year-old lawyer back to handle legal fights the White House expects with the new Democratic Congress.

In an Associated Press interview, he is so soft-spoken that some of his words are drowned out by heat blowing from a register across the room. But Fielding, who has defended huge corporate clients, is no pushover.