Mr. Bush responded by hailing his No. 2 and recalling the decision to ask him to be the running mate in 2000.
"They did exactly the right thing," said Michael T. Stolper, a lawyer at Orrick, Herrington, recalling the decision by the tobacco industry lawyers to get in touch with the plaintiff's firm.
He says, "Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized".
Erica L Smith, chief of the bureau's law enforcement statistics unit, recalled the decision to end the count.
David Kusnet, Mr. Clinton's chief speechwriter during his early years in the White House, said that he did not recall the decision to use the phrase, but that it was easy to imagine why the choice was made, and repeated, and repeated.
Vic Giles, the paper's former art director, wrote in the Guardian this week that he recalled the decision being taken by the proprietor himself, against the wishes of the then editor, Larry Lamb.
Years later, T-Boz, the leader of the group, recalled the decision in a MTV interview: "I was like, I like the song, but do I think it's a hit?
"It was a lousy idea," Jarrett said as she recalled the decision by Obama, then a state senator, to run for U.S. Senate after he was trounced two years earlier in a bid for Congress.
In an interview with MTV, Carey recalled the decision with Reid: "L.A. was like, 'You and Jermaine Dupri make magic together, why aren't you in the studio with him?
But Marceline goes further, talking about the Eichmann trial, which was taking place at the time, and recalling the "selections," the decisions of life and death, by the "chief doctor" at Auschwitz (she doesn't mention Josef Mengele by name).
Mr. Thompson, recalling the mayor's decision recently to lay off workers to close a budget gap, said Mr. Bloomberg "neither sees nor comprehends the struggles of working New Yorkers.
