Choose a Counsel loyal to the President over one with elite credentials
What the document says“the best one will be above all loyal to the President and the Constitution”
The chapter says the President should choose a Counsel well versed in the Constitution, administrative and regulatory law and the workings of Congress, should prefer broad experience to a specialism, and that although a candidate with elite credentials might seem ideal, the best candidate will above all be loyal to the President and the Constitution.
What the document actually says“the best one will be above all loyal to the President and the Constitution”
The best person will be loyal above all. That means loyal to the president and to the Constitution.
The president picks his own top lawyer. The chapter says a famous name or a top school is not the main thing. It says the most important thing is that the lawyer is loyal.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The memorandum on resolving the security clearance backlog for Executive Office of the President personnel touches White House staffing, since it directs interim clearances be granted, but it names no office of Counsel and sets no criterion for choosing one. Nothing indexed records the standard applied in selecting the Counsel to the President. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.