The Nation - News from March 19, 1985
Anne McGill Burford has asked the White House to pay $211,000 of her legal fees, contending that Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III had promised her that the Administration would pick up the tab if she resigned in March, 1983, as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. “The agreement (with Meese) was oral and part of my resignation. You’d think he’d honor his word, wouldn’t you?” she said in an interview in Legal Times, a trade publication. Meese, who in 1983 was counselor to President Reagan, refused to comment.
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