Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JULY 1993, DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE counsel Vincent Foster wrote an anguished lament: "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport." Nine days later, Foster was dead. Shock at the apparent suicide of one of President Clinton's top aides turned to mystery, then suspicion, as the White House became entangled in an ever widening net of questions. Among the confidential matters Foster was working on when he died was the Clintons' investment in Whitewater, an Arkansas land development launched in 1978 with the Clintons' partners...
...Sport is as much about how political combat is waged in America today as it is about the Clintons and their misjudgments. The main excerpt, which is from Part 1 of the book, "The Road to Scandal," traces the deal that spawned the Clintons' current problems. The excerpt about Vincent Foster is from Part 2, "A Death in the White House." The third part of the book, "Shrouding the Truth," concentrates on subsequent events inside the White House, especially how the Clintons handled--and mishandled--mounting revelations about their lives in Arkansas...
...Susan Thomases, the Manhattan lawyer who is a close friend and adviser to the Clintons, came to my office about a matter she had said she couldn't discuss over the phone. After some pleasantries, Thomases described a White House besieged by allegations ranging from the murder of Vincent Foster to irregularities in Whitewater to obstruction of justice. The President and First Lady had concluded that the best way to clear their names was to open themselves to a reputable journalist. Thomases never said explicitly that I was being considered for this project, but when I asked if this were...
Meanwhile, Hillary was trying to build up the fledgling litigation practice at Rose. She, like her litigation partners Vincent Foster and Webster Hubbell, were at a disadvantage: those partners who handled corporate clients tended to get the lion's share of compensation, and the only way Hillary, Foster and Hubbell could improve their pay was to bring in more clients...
...play proceeds, the two men engage in a series of debates, each one defending his way of dealing with a racist Hollywood. But by the final scene, when Bradley and Vincent meet up again at a similar party, they have reversed their initial positions; Bradley has had a nose-job and is playing a lucrative but demeaning role in a big-budget film, while Vincent is about to make an independent documentary about a Japanese family during World War II. As if to emphasize his enlightenment, Gotanda even has Vincent come out in the play's last scene, adding sexual...