Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that this media circus meant little to him. "Never apologize, never explain"--that had been his motto for 17 years, ever since he left the presidency of the National Urban League after a racist gunman nearly took his life, going on to become Washington's most powerful back-room fixer. Now he had to violate that principle and offer a partial explanation of his role in the tawdry matter of Monica Lewinsky. "After I shall have read my statement," he said, wrapping himself in a protective layer of syntax, "I will not take questions. I'm going to leave...
...Lewinsky problem--which Jordan, according to Lewinsky confidant Linda Tripp, tried to solve by counseling Lewinsky in the back of his limo--made the papers anyway, forcing the fixer into the spotlight. Lewinsky reportedly told Tripp that Jordan said to her, "They can't prove anything...Your answer is, 'It didn't happen, it wasn't me.'" If that turns out to be true, Jordan could be on the hook for suborning perjury and obstruction of justice. And if Lewinsky cooperates with independent counsel Kenneth Starr in exchange for immunity, Starr would presumably try to work...
...rainmaker and fixer, Jordan soon equaled Strauss himself. But unlike Strauss, he didn't advertise it. "Jordan has been a stealth presence in Washington," says Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity. "He's a super-lawyer who is rarely seen or heard, but who hobnobs with the high and mighty and receives large sums for doing so. Little is known of how much he traffics on his relationship with Bill Clinton. He is close to the most powerful people and does not need or want publicity...
...Christmas Eve with the Jordans and regularly visited them on the Vineyard in the summer. Says Jordan's friend Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation: "Public life can be a pretty high-risk proposition." But as Jordan is finding out, the private life of a fixer carries risks too. He could go before Starr's grand jury in Little Rock as early as this week...
...finally focused on his Washington woes. And he is attacking the issue the way he storms into any battle he's losing: identify the problem, open his wallet, and buy a solution. In this case, that means pricey Beltway sluggers like former Reagan imagemaker Mike Deaver; Congressman-cum-fixer Vin Weber; and Tom Downey, former New York Democratic Congressman and close personal friend of Al ("Year 2000") Gore...