Traveling with President Bush in Australia, the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said the memorandum was "exactly what a strong and capable secretary of defense, like Secretary Rumsfeld, should be doing".
But as the euro crisis intensifies and the potential bills for Germany mount, she would be imprudent not to be considering a Plan B. Drafted in utmost secrecy by a few trusted officials for the chancellor's eyes only, this is what the memorandum outlining a contingency plan might say.TO: Angela Merkel FROM: ??? SUBJECT: Plan BTHE CURRENT IMPASSEI.
Carmody subsequently tried to "speak privately with [Boddice] about what he described in a memorandum as 'unresolved concerns'", according to former justice Alan Wilson in his March valedictory speech.
In rebuttal, Mr. Witten offered several exhibits, including what he said was a memorandum from PhRMA, the trade association and lobbying arm of the pharmaceutical industry, which instructed an employee on how to approach Senator McConnell on a matter of interest to the industry.
Michael Liss, a White Plains real estate lawyer, said that in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess Counties -- as well as New York City -- it is common for the broker to draft what is known as a "memorandum of agreement," which sets forth all the relevant terms that will be included in the contract.
By August, over at Andersen, a memorandum describing what had been done with the Raptors was sent from the accounting team to Mr. Bass and Mr. Stewart.
In July, according to his lawsuit, Mr. Bingham prepared a memorandum "outlining what he believed were significant accounting and financial irregularities" at Xerox.
Several former aides say he was troubled by the administration's decision to hold terrorism suspects indefinitely without normal due-process rights, and records show that he once asked for a memorandum on what recourse would be available to a hypothetical foreign Vanderbilt University student implicated in a terror plot and secretly "tried at the direction of the president".
What the memorandum did not mention is that three days after it was sent, the city ended its fiscal year with a $3.2 billion surplus, the largest in New York City history.
"If people are verbally advising umpires to ignore what the memorandum clearly says and automatically eject, I'm afraid we are going to have a problem on our hands, because that advice constitutes an unlawful rule change".
