The draft opinion would allow the nominees, if both agreed, to return contributions they had solicited for the general election campaign and limit themselves to public financing for it instead.
Esiason said he did not believe his career as a football analyst was doomed after ABC fired him and he harshly criticized Al Michaels, his former partner, because he was solicited for the radio job shortly after his dismissal.
Ms. Churchill has taken the unusual step of agreeing to license the play to theaters at no charge, as long as admission is free and donations are solicited for the medical group, according to a statement in the script.
Mr. Webster -- who was solicited for the board by the White House and Mr. Pitt after another candidate, John H. Biggs of the investment plan TIAA-CREF, was challenged by the accounting profession for being too aggressive -- said he had no intention of leaving.
The man, Justin Patrick White of Long Island City, is accused of keeping virtually all the money he solicited for the Police Survivors' Fund after he established it in October 1999, and of using the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to draw more contributions until two months ago.
When he left the Party post, blue-chip corporations he had solicited for the R.N.C., such as Federal Express and the big tobacco companies, signed up with his lobbying firm, Barbour Griffith & Rogers, hoping to benefit from the good will Barbour had engendered in Congress.
