Bernard W. Nussbaum

Bernard W. Nussbaum '58 was White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton, a member of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigations, and one of the original lawyers at New York firm Wachtell Lipton. He resigned from his post as White House Counsel due to complications arising out of the Whitewater investigation, but was later cleared of any wrongdoing.

After college, Nussbaum attended law school at Harvard rather than Columbia, at University President Grayson Kirk's insistence. Kirk thought a different graduate school would broaden Nussbaum's horizons.

He is a recipient of the John Jay Award, and has nothing to do with Nussbaum & Wu or the dormitory above it.