Talk:Harriet Miers

Deputy White House Chief of Staff

On the entry for Karl Rove there is a box showing her as the previous Deputy White House Chief of Staff. There should be similar box here, with her predecessor, and Rove as her successor. --grr 08:24, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

revert year links

I reverted the removal of links on bare years. Editor claimed there was no use, since years have no "date preference" settings. I contend that the bare year links exist to link to the pages for the years in question, placing the article, and its timeline, in historical context; and that such links have nothing to do with date preferences. I will agree, however, with anyone who wants to go through and ensure that each year is linked only once, or once per header section. I don't have time right now. --Kgf0

What does the "Republican tremors" link have anything to do with Miers? --(non-Wiki editor)

Resignation Errata

I believe this: "As of January 4th, 2006, she has submitted her resignation from the position"

Should be changed to: January 4th, 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.207.165.23 (talk) 19:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC).

Why don't you just change it then?Mowens35 19:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Miers involved in the '06-'07 U.S. Attorney firing scandal

This is a widening scandal, but there is now email evidence that Miers suggested, in 2005, that the Attorney General, via the White House, remove and replace all 97 U.S. Attorneys. They didn't heed her adice, but did fire 8 U.S. Attorneys, all Democrats, all with positive job evaluations, and replaced them without Congressional confrimation.

Here's the link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/12/AR2007031201818_pf.html

This text is from the NY Times 3/13/07 article "‘Mistakes’ Made on Prosecutors, Gonzales Says" By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JEFF ZELENY.

Congressional Democrats, who are investigating whether the White House was meddling in Justice Department affairs for political reasons, demanded that President Bush and his chief political adviser, Karl Rove, explain their roles in the dismissals.

With Mr. Bush traveling in Mexico, 'the White House insisted that the president’s role had been minimal and laid the blame primarily on Harriet E. Miers, who was White House counsel when the prosecutors lost their jobs and who stepped down in January.

“The White House did not play a specific role in the list of the seven U.S. attorneys,” said Dan Bartlett, Mr. Bush’s counselor, referring to a Justice Department roster of those to be dismissed. But he said the White House, through Ms. Miers’s office, ultimately “signed off on the list.”

and now it looks like the white house is retreating from this position: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031601046.html "The White House retreated today from its claim that former counsel Harriet E. Miers first came up with the idea of firing U.S. attorneys, another apparent shift in the Bush administration's evolving version of events behind the controversy." Slarson 22:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Is it like "meers" or "meyers"? --AW (talk) 21:16, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Reportedly the latter, like "Myers", with a long English I.

--UnicornTapestry (talk) 06:48, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Opening line

The opening line reads

Harriet Ellan Miers (born 10 August 1945) is an American lawyer and former White House Counsel. On 4 January 2007, she submitted her resignation from the position of White House Counsel, effective 31 January 2007.

While I grant there's an odd irony, the opening paragraph makes it sound as if her crowning achievement is her resignation. Can't we do better than that?

(BTW, for this section, I added the year to a date where it wasn't clear and used international dates, because the article may be of international interest.)

--UnicornTapestry (talk) 06:53, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Missing section

There is no information to whether she is married, single, or divorced. Is she a lesbian? Or a single mother? User F203 (talk) 16:40, 14 June 2009 (UTC)