Bill Moyers Journal -Robert G. Kaiser -So Damn Much Money

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Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff still reigns for many as the public face of a corrupted Washington, D.C. But a new book from WASHINGTON POST reporter Robert G. Kaiser recounts the rise of one of Washington's most powerful — yet less known — lobbyists, Gerald Cassidy, who over the last 30 years helped evolve the now infamous processes of lobbying and earmarking that Abramoff briefly exploited.

Kaiser tells Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL about Cassidy, a complex "self-invented" man, who escaped a poor childhood to amass a huge fortune in the influence industry, "To me, the Cassidy story is wonderfully illustrative of how Washington became a venue -- in my time and your time -- a venue for the great American pastime, which is not baseball, but making money."

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02202009/profile.html

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