He advised Clinton to fight for her nomination as A.G. despite opposition over her failure to pay social-security taxes for her illegal nanny.

His relaxed questioning of the next A.G. candidate failed to elicit that she, too, had an illegal-nanny problem.

He sat in when the FBI was asked to reword a statement to support White House claims of mismanagement in the travel office.

He approved her for the top civil-rights job despite her controversial writings on minority representation.

He invoked executive privilege over Foster’s files and waited nearly 30 hours to turn over a note.