Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greeted every foreigner who came to the White House. But in the midst of the campaign, Ickes and Sosnik let the Democratic National Committee do the first round of vetting. If the D.N.C. didn't raise a flag, Lake was never alerted, which helps explain why a Chinese arms dealer was allowed through the White House gates to meet Clinton last year...
...Hannibal Lecter of finance," as one put it, he clings to his claim of innocence, blaming regulators and Congress for his troubles. Indeed, some of his fellow inmates told TIME that he never admitted guilt or regret for his actions. Kevin McKinley, a convicted Irish Republican Army weapons dealer, grew close to Keating as the two walked the prison yard. As he put it, "Charlie was never a rat. He refused to sell out his associates and wouldn't compromise with the government just to get a better deal. Charlie believes he is right...
...library. A mammoth carved wooden dome hangs just above the floor, waiting to be raised into the cupola. (I wonder: Does this grand chamber dispel my fear that he will relegate print to museum status? Or inadvertently confirm it?) He has hired a New York rare-books dealer to stock the library for him. His current reading is eclectic. "On a recent trip to Italy," he says, "I took the new Stalin biography, a book about Hewlett-Packard, Seven Summits [a mountaineering book by Dick Bass and the late Disney president Frank Wells] and a Wallace Stegner novel...
...party and then taps into a far-flung network of Buddhists for quick cash when the President gets into legal trouble. Eventually, he returns to Washington and earns the clout to move freely in and out of the White House, once bringing as his guest a major arms dealer from the People's Republic of China...
...Clinton completed his final round of Cabinet appointments last Friday, he appeared undaunted by the latest round of disclosures. He admitted that it was "clearly inappropriate" for Trie to escort Chinese weapons dealer Wang Jun through the White House in February. "We have to do a better job of screening people who come in and out of here," the President said. But Clinton noted with pride that so far the multiplying probes of the Administration "have spent $30 million or something, and there's not a single solitary shred of evidence of any wrongdoing on my part." Said...