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Vote: | And we decided that Bill Miller would talk, first, to the Saudis and several of the other central bankers. And he did that between six and eight that morning and made sure they, at least, understood what we were doing. And by a little after eight we had the order ready and signed. |
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Vote: | And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts. |
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Vote: | Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan. |
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Vote: | During that administration, I worked with the Justice Department people, both on the return of the Bay of Pigs prisoners which is an odd coincidence in the light of the subsequent Iranian hostages, and my particular part was to work with the pharmaceutical companies who were clients of mine to arrange the delivery of medicines to Cuba in return for those prisoners. |
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Vote: | I also had the responsibility of dealing with the Shah and getting him to leave New York and go to Texas. And getting him to go from Texas to Panama and getting him to go from Panama to Cairo; in fact, I felt almost like Typhoid maryiagis whenever I showed up and he was about to take a trip someplace. |
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Vote: | I also worked on the settlement of a large litigation which had been kicking around ever since World War II relating to the American seizure of the I.G.Farben assets of World War II and a Swiss claim to be the true owners of those assets. |
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Vote: | I am convinced myself that if we had not admitted the Shah, within a month the embassy would have been seized and the hostages taken anyway. |
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Vote: | I believe it was and is in their interest and that they would live up to it in the end and we have the means of verifying that they did live up to it. |
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Vote: | I don't think that there were ever any great illusions in the Senate or in the White House about Soviet behavior. |
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Vote: | I had known General Eisenhower before he became President. I knew President Kennedy, actually we were the same age. And one of my partners, Lou Oberdorfer, became Assistant Attorney General with Bobby Kennedy; through him I met Bobby and got to know him well. I'd already known Byron White and helped Bobby Kennedy and Byron White select people for the Justice Department. |
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Vote: | I had previously worked in that campaign. Oddly enough, one of the things that I had looked into was what we could learn about the relationships between Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo, which turned out much later to have some significance. |
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Vote: | I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought. |
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Vote: | I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled. |
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Vote: | I war brought in five to seven days beforehand to pass a question of whether under the War Powers Resolution we had a duty to consult with Congress in advance. And I was told I had to do that by myself, not to discuss it with anybody. I remember going to the Executive Office Building law library looking up my own laws. |
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Vote: | In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything. |
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Vote: | Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point. |
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Vote: | Nobody knew what the Saudis would do, the Kuwaitis would do, what the faceless gnomes of Zurich would do with all their deposits in the U.S. if we froze sombody's assets for political reasons. |
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Vote: | The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one. |
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Vote: | We all differ in our assessments of how much we thought the treaty was in their interests so that they would live up to it, of course. |
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Vote: | We had gone through lists of things we might do, that I might mention in this connection, both in the Iranian situation and in the case of Afghanistan. I became persuaded that we had reached a time when our enormous military power, even when it was clearly superior to the power of the other side as in the case in Berlin, was essentially unusable to deal with the practical problem that we had. |
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Vote: | We, first, thought of it very much like the Columbian situation that came along later or other terrorist seizures of embassies as it happened in the Sudan, where the local government deplores what happened just as much as you do and does everything it can to bring it to an end. |
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Vote: | Within a very few days it became clear, then, in this case, at least, the militants, as we called them, were national heroes and that government, such as it was, was going to support them, at least the Ayatollah was going to support them. |
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Lloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917–May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. Cutler graduated from Yale University in 1936 at the age of 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. Three years later, he graduated magna cum laude from Yale Law School. Following his graduation, Cutler clerked for Judge Charles Clark for a year before entering private practice.
During World War II, he worked briefly for the Lend-Lease Administration, later enlisting in the U.S. Army and becoming an intelligence analyst. In 1962, he co-founded the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, specializing in international law and public policy. Later, he co-chaired the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, formed at the request of President John F. Kennedy.
Cutler was White House Counsel to Jimmy Carter, whom he met first while both served on the Trilateral Commission. He served as a special counsel and consultant to the president on the ratification of SALT II and other international matters. Cutler also served as counsel in Bill Clinton's administration.
On February 6, 2004, Cutler was appointed to the Iraq Intelligence Commission, an independent panel tasked with investigating U.S. intelligence surrounding the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the allegations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
On May 8, 2005, Cutler died of complications of a broken hip in Washington, D.C. at his home. He is survived by his wife, Polly Kraft, and four children, three of whom were practicing lawyers.
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