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Article: Bush Aides' Lobbying Debated; Democrats Decry Work for Bahamian; GOP Notes Issue Cuts Both Ways
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- The Washington Post
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- September 9, 1988
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Shortly after he resigned in early 1985 as Vice President Bush's
chief of staff, retired admiral Daniel J. Murphy flew to the Bahamas
in an attempt to persuade that nation's prime minister, Lynden O.
Pindling, to retain his services in negotiations with the United
States on a proposed treaty against money laundering.
The two did not hit it off and, as Murphy explained in recent
Senate testimony, Pindling "kind of threw me out of the office."
But Pindling-whose government has been repeatedly accused of cozy
relations with drug traffickers-recognized he needed well-connected
U.S. representation anyway. He soon turned to another firm with
close ties to Bush: Black Manafort Stone & Kelly, ...