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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appears increasingly confident that he will survive the crisis over the dismissal of federal prosecutors, as White House aides who view him as a liability see little point in trying to persuade President Bush to push him out, administration officials and Republican allies said.
Though Mr. Gonzales is considered in Congress and in legal circles as an isolated and diminished figure, he has told aides he believes he has weathered the storm.
Gonzales "believes he has weathered the storm"
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Representative John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has stopped short of calling for Mr. Gonzales's resignation, but said it would be premature to conclude that he would keep his job.
"For anybody to be suggesting that this matter is over or closed is pretty far off base," Mr. Conyers said, adding, "My experience is when the president says he's standing behind you, that's when you should really be concerned."
See, for instance, Donald Rumsfeld.
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