Talk:David E. Kendall
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"When he first arrived in Washington to practice law, the senior partner advised him that in Washington they burn a witch every three months and it is best not to be the witch."
- Cite, please. Who related this anecdote? The subject of the article? The senior partner? Who heard it, and how did it get here? -- Anon.
- Kendall reported it in a 2001 interview for the Wabash College magazine. He was talking about his work defending the President Clinton during the impeachment trial. Here is the quote as he reported it:
- "Edward Bennett Williams used to say, “Washington burns a witch every three months. It’s important not to be that witch.” And there’s a lot of wisdom in that." -- Robin22 00:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
- IMHO, the best way to get rid of the {{explain significance}} tag is to mention his work with Clinton during the impeachment trial. That is quite significant. PPI isn't as well known. I've Googled his name on the Internet before (well, technically I was Googling my own name, I happen to have the same first and last name as Kendall) and his work with Clinton, especially during the impeachment trial, comes up again and again (and ranks much higher than instances of "David Kendall" that refer to me! ;) ) The quote above too would be great for the Kendall article. If someone who has an interest in doing more research on him than I would like to do this, I think it will improve the article a lot and be a good reason to get rid of the tag. (And if someone could find a fair-use picture to put on the page, it'd be great! I've always wondered what he looks like, since I share a name and all ... ) --Canuckguy 02:55, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] PPI references?
The PPI links seem to confirm that this is a different person than the one most readers will probably be familiar with.
The David Kendall who served as an attorney for the Clintons was (is?) a Washington attorney, and a Wabash College graduate. The PPI link at the bottom of this entry describes someone who works at a thinktank, and graduated from U. of Chicago. I have no idea how/why the latter is important; however, the Clinton attorney certainly did gain name recognition during Clinton's presidency.
Another entry ("Wabash College") mentions David Kendall as an alumnus; that entry should link to a bio of the Clinton attorney. There is a link to a Wabash College magazine interview of Kendall in one of the comments about this one-- so even the earlier comments about this entry are apparently referring to a different David Kendall. Markinia 06:09, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
- Well then, as I mentioned above, maybe we should make another article about the Clintons' lawyer (there's lots of stuff on him on the 'net), perhaps have that be the main page for David Kendall, and relegate this one to another page (perhaps David Kendall (PPI)?) since he is (sadly) the most famous David Kendall it would seem and deserving of the primary page due to his significance. (I hope one day to unseat his position as the most famous David Kendall, though! ;) ) --Canuckguy 03:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
- This article was IMO vandalized to refer to the PPI Kendall instead of the impeachment Kendall. This resulted (several months later) in an AFD. I reversed the edit so that this article's editing history regarding the attorney would be preserved, and moved it to David E. Kendall. Then I fixed David Kendall to be a human-name disambiguation page. Hopefully this clarifies the article history. --Dhartung | Talk 20:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
