Word: lindseyism
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...Lindsey says the campaign money was withdrawn in small amounts to keep it from the notice of Clinton's political opponents, not the irs, and that it was duly reported on campaign-finance documents after the election. "Any suggestion that my writing four checks was intended to mislead bank regulators is simply false," he said, after emerging suddenly from the West Wing and intercepting reporters on the White House driveway. He will take the witness stand sometime this summer; Clinton will testify by videotape...
Whenever scandal has rocked the White House, Bruce Lindsey has been at the center of the cleanup effort, calling around his native Arkansas to gather information and enlist allies, devising legal strategy with the President's other lawyers, steering journalists away from negative conclusions and soothing the President just by being there, ready to watch a movie or play a game of hearts...
...Clinton's longtime political ferret, Lindsey, 48, has always understood the centripetal nature of power--that to get to the core of it, you almost have to disappear. But last week he shed his cherished invisibility, when instead of managing the President's problems, he became one himself. It was revealed that federal prosecutors plan to name Lindsey an "unindicted co-conspirator" in an alleged plot to hide from the irs large cash withdrawals by Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign, which Lindsey served as treasurer...
...Lindsey is so unassuming that during the 1992 presidential campaign he declined to take a conspicuous role, recommending instead George Stephanopoulos, and was perhaps the only aide to stay away from television cameras. But last Wednesday he went searching for them outside the White House to tell the world he'd done nothing wrong. "Bruce would never hurt the President," says a White House colleague. "If there were anything to this, he would have resigned a long time...
...when both worked for Arkansas Senator William Fulbright. Twelve years later, after losing his first re-election bid for Governor, Clinton found refuge in Lindsey's law firm and plotted a comeback. When Clinton launched his unlikely bid to unseat George Bush in 1991, Lindsey was his only traveling companion, and the two trekked anonymously through airports, carrying their own bags. Once in the White House, Clinton put him in charge of personnel, but his range has always been unlimited...