New White House Counsel to the rescue?

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WASHINGTON, March 15 — It was hardly a social call when Fred F. Fielding,the new White House counsel, turned up Wednesday afternoon on Capitol Hill.

He had come to negotiate with Democrats, who are investigating whether politics played a role in the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors and demanding testimony from Karl Rove and other top aides to President Bush.

But Mr. Fielding’s real task is even bigger and more delicate: to serve as the point man for the White House as it decides the future of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, a longtime Texas friend and confidant of Mr.Bush.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/washington/16fielding.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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