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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 21, 1993                   TAG: 9307210267
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

WHITE HOUSE ATTORNEY FOUND DEAD

Vince Foster, President Clinton's deputy legal counsel, was found dead Tuesday night in a roadside park from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, White House officials said.

A native of Hope, Ark., Foster had been a partner with Hillary Rodham Clinton in a Little Rock law firm and had moved to Washington when Clinton became president.

Foster, 48, was married and the father of three children.

His death stunned White House officials, who said they were unaware of anything that might have caused Foster to take his own life.

Foster was the No. 2 White House lawyer, serving under Bernard Nussbaum, a Manhattan lawyer who is one of Clinton's closest advisers. Foster kept a low profile, which is common for White House attorneys.

He was a player in the White House's controversial firing of seven travel office employees but he was not singled out for criticism in a White House review of the issue. - Associated Press

Keywords:
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