Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
Who spent four decades as Washington’s consummate insider — a St. Louis lawyer turned White House counsel who advised every Democratic president from Truman to Carter, masterminded an upset reelection, talked a president into recognizing a brand-new nation, and, years later as secretary of defense, pushed a president toward ending a war?
Hint: In his eighties, his gilded reputation collapsed in one of the largest banking scandals in history.
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