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...calls at home from him demanding action on something he has read in the morning newspapers or in HEW's "green sheet" of clippings. But he has attracted some good, young talent to HEW. Boasts the boss: "We have the best people who have ever been in this department???and it shows...
Although most of its attention focuses on Congress, the Jewish lobby does not ignore the White House, Pentagon or State Department???although one Kissinger aide claims that Jewish lobbyists have just about given up on the Secretary and work through Congress instead. Friction arose, for example, over Nixon's opposition to helping Soviet Jews through the Jackson Amendment, but Jewish leaders had no difficulty discussing it with him. One of Nixon's Jewish backers, Industrialist Max Fisher of Detroit, arranged such a talk. Fisher also set up a meeting with Nixon in which Jewish leaders urged intervention with the Soviet...
...wants to be sure his case gets a fair hearing before some arm of Government. That feeling, more than any outright payoff for a proffered gift, probably was behind the Nixon Administration's error in the ITT controversy. Top ITT executives got to talk with officials in the Justice Department???an opportunity the small businessman, or the noncontributor, rarely gets...
...steps down from room to room, with a billiard room that is half of the kitchen marked off by a broad red line across which the cooks dare not tread but over which they pasa nicely browned sausages or still-warm tarts to the loungers in the billiard department???in this delectable tavern foregather Michael Webb and claimants to culture. Their discursive and argumentative flights?hodgepodge of raillery and provocative philosophy?are the substance of the book. Three or four years pass unobtrusively, disconnectedly, and the book ends as it progressed, inconspicuously yet without any sense of incompleteness...
...lapse if not confirmed by the Senate, when it meets in December. They recalled that the U. S. Shipping Board had been created in 1916 as a semi-judicial and regulative body. With our entrance into the War it was supplemented by a sort of get-down-to-business department???the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which was to have the direct administration of the Government Merchant Marine but remain subservient to the parent Board...
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