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It’s Bananas: The Role of “Banana-gate” as a Contributing Factor to the Passing of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977

Posted by: Elin Hofverberg

The following is a guest post by Steven Hughston Vasil, a 2020 summer intern working remotely with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. He is a current graduate student pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science degree at the University of Maryland, College Park. On December 19, 1977, President Jimmy …