That is why new wrinkles in the story of how President Clinton and the Democrats financed the 1996 election keep popping up.
The Republicans insisted that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which has 1.4 million members, should finance the election.
The Government agreed to finance the 1996 election as part of its long-standing effort to make the teamsters' union more democratic and eliminate mob influence.
People may be disinclined to finance the election of any politician these days.
The money will come from citizens who opt to provide $1 from their income taxes to finance the general election.
The funding deadlock developed after Congress and the union both refused to provide any of the estimated $8 million needed to finance the election for the teamsters presidency.
He helped finance the election of 1933, which enabled Hitler to strengthen his tenuous grip on the government.
The protests received little backing from the foreign governments that had helped finance the election; most endorsed the results.
The union argued that the pledge the Government made in 1989 to finance the election should supersede Congress's prohibition.
International organizations, which spent $200 million to finance the election, indicated that they had little patience for would-be spoilers challenging the vote's validity.