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...Eidenberg's duties for the past two years, first as a deputy to Jack H. Watson Jr. and then as director when Watson became chief of staff, were simply, he says, to make the federal system work: across agencies and with governors and mayors. He was responsible for coordinating the relations between the federal government and state and local authorities. "Our job was to give flexibility without, compromising federal authority," he explains...
...Eidenberg's ascension to a White House post followed a long career of "non-partisan"--a distinction he stresses--political activities. Born in 1939, he grew up in New York City and majored in political science at the University of Wisconsin. Before graduating in 1962, he became active in campus-based politics and in the civil rights movement...
Hardeman had been active during the fifties in Texas politics and learned a great deal about the trade. "From eight until ten every morning, we'd read the papers and talk about politics," Eidenberg recalls. "It was a one-on-one seminar in American politics in the fifties and sixties." For the man who was educated in the Midwest. Hardeman's insight into Texas hardball politics "was a real eye-opener. It was important for me to realize that politics was tough...
After spending time in Minneapolis, teaching at the University of Minnesota and serving as deputy mayor, Eidenberg accepted a vice-chancellory at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus in 1972. There he continued his political hobby, observing Mayor Richard J. Daley's machine first hand...
...Eidenberg recalls the Chicago Circle Campus' tenth anniversary, when, as university representative, he served as Daley's escort. Making idle conversation with the mayor before Daley was to give a speech, Eidenberg mentioned that the college was considering building a law school. To his surprise, when Daley addressed the college officials, he painted a picture of a "wall-to-wall law school. It was pure Richard J. Daley Chicago Circle boosterism...