Our 20-year nightmare

On the Gregorian calendar, it happened twenty years ago today on the White House lawn. I was in New York at the time, representing a client of my boss who was a high-ranking member of the Labor party in meetings with underwriters. (The client turned out to be a fraud - his only sale was to his own company and the company never went public). The client was exuberant. Now, there was going to be '