11.   He did not advise the president on how to cope, Leopoulos said.

12.   However, the White House counsel must be able to evaluate politics while advising the president on the law and ethics.

13.   President Richard Nixon appointed him to the National Industrial Pollution Control Council, which was created to advise the president on energy and environmental programs.

14.   That is why a lawyer advising the president has to tell him to do what he has been doing.

15.   The council, whose members include the vice president, secretary of state and secretary of defense, advises the president on national security.

16.   The Harvard-trained economist, a former Federal Reserve Board governor who advised two presidents on economic policy, has long seemed a hopeless pessimist.

17.   The task force did most of its work in secret and refused at first to identify the hundreds of people advising the president on health policy.

18.   We also look at the reality of advising the president from a distance.

19.   White House counsel Charles Ruff and National Security Adviser Samuel Berger will play key roles in advising the president on the decision, officials added.

20.   After Attorney General Janet Reno made that decision, the president was advised.