You got it exactly right. Your grandfather sounds like a great man.
The political organizations are indeed afraid to upset any of their contacts. The same is true with the media as well, which is why we don’t have any real investigative journalism anymore. Newspapers, TV and Radio need access in order to get news to report. If they report negatively they lose access and that damages their ability to break news. So they play with kid gloves.
The whole darn system is just too darn big. We probably have scandals worse than Watergate that don’t get reported because the media consolidation and fear of being cut off (as one San Fran journo learned recently for reporting poorly on the Gun Walker). Solyndra corruption. Web Hubbel Suicide. Gun Walker. And many others. But I digress from the purpose of the thread.
I think you meant Vince Foster Suicide. Of course, to anyone with knowledge of the facts and the power of deductive reasoning, Vince Foster was a homicide victim. I have posted about the Foster case many times here on FR.