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Her late husband, H.J. "Tex" Lezar, was a law partner of O'Neill. Also in the firm was Margaret Wilson, the former counsel to Gov. Bush who followed him to Washington, where she served for a time as a deputy counsel in the Department of Commerce.

In 1998, she coached Kenneth Starr to prepare him for impeaching Clinton. Her daughter's godfather is Ted Olson. He was counsel to the right-wing American Spectator when it acted as a front for the dirty-tricks campaign against Clinton known as the Arkansas Project; he represented Bush in the Florida recount, and was rewarded with the job of solicitor general in the Bush Justice Department.