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He added that Starr had been placed as solicitor general, the lawyer who argues Supreme Court cases for the government, for the express purpose of moving him to the Supreme Court if a vacancy occurred.

Winston Starr, 48, was not surprised that he was asked to be the new independent counsel.

Reagan had appointed Starr a judge on the District of Columbia Federal Appeals Court in 1983 at the age of 37, then the youngest appointee to that court.

Baptist minister from Texas, Starr was a dutiful, even pious figure, balding, with glasses, a Mister Rogers manner and a reputation for patience.

Since the high court ruled in 1988 that the independent counsel law was constitutional, Starr agreed to take the Whitewater post.

Kendall thought that it would probably force Starr to start from scratch.

Kendall had been overjoyed at the Starr opinion, which concluded that the disputed article was largely true and endorsed aggressive investigative reporting.

Kendall found Starr smooth, witty, polished, hardly a Republican zealot.

Recently Cutler had debated Starr on television about presidential immunity in civil cases.

The problem, Cutler said, was that Starr probably would have to revisit everything that Fiske had done.

Carville said he wanted to challenge Starr publicly as an obvious partisan.

Panetta that public criticism of the new independent counsel would antagonize Starr and wind up hurting the president.

August 10, Clinton was first asked in public what he thought about the Starr appointment.

Fiske had accomplished, Starr concluded he had to reopen the Foster death investigation.

Washington legal playbook: never join the issue, never have an all-out fight with Starr or the congressional committees.