>From an email from Kyle Sampson, who just resigned as Gonzales's chief of staff, to Harriet Miers, January 9, 2006:
...Once confirmed by the Senate and appointed, U.S. Attorneys serve for four years and then holdover indefinitely (at the pleasure of the President, of course). In recent memory, during the Reagan and Clinton Administrations, Presidents Reagan and Clinton *did not* seek to remove and replace the U.S. Attorneys they had appointed whose terms had expired, but instead permitted those U.S. Attorneys to serve indefinitely under the holdover provision. [emphasis in original]
