Word: backslapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Mochtar's son James Riady, during a number of Oval Office visits, described by the White House as basically social, praised Clinton's stand on China and urged him to visit President Suharto of Indonesia (as did others and he did). Most social encounters in Washington are part backslap and part business, and these had more of the former than the latter. But because reporters are trying to compensate for charges that they favor Democrats, they are more willing to buy the G.O.P. line that foreign-policy decisions are as open to influence as domestic ones, like tobacco regulations...