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...hear the complaints, plead the cases and soothe the ruffled feathers of the fat cats and Pooh-Bahs. The position naturally invites allegations of mollycoddling business at public expense. But few who have held it have proved more controversial or more subject to charges of favoritism than Peter Flanigan, Richard Nixon's "Mr. Fixit" when it comes to powerful business interests...
...millionaire former Wall Street investment banker (Dillon Read), Flanigan, 48, is variously regarded as a mischievous genius of finance, a wheeler-dealer and the business community's best friend at the White House. According to Ralph Nader, Flanigan is the "most evil" man in Washington because he so often appears to be responsible for shifts in presidential policy favorable to business...
When the ITT brouhaha arose, many predicted that it was only a matter of time before Flanigan's name surfaced-and with good reason. Since he was appointed a presidential assistant three years ago, Flanigan has been the focal point of every controversy about business influence involving the Nixon Administration. Two of Flanigan's more notable shenanigans...
...accused of using improper influence to gain a Treasury Department waiver permitting an oil tanker to engage in coastal shipping trade, thereby increasing the ship's value by $5,000,000. The tanker, it was discovered, was owned by officials of Dillon Read. Flanigan too had held a share in the vessel and had disposed of it only five days before the waiver was granted. Flanigan's reply: "I did not even know Treasury was considering a waiver...
...lose billions of dollars, was up in arms. Anticipating the repercussions among oil-rich G.O.P. campaign contributors, the President ordered a new "study" of oil-import quotas. Not surprisingly, the second commission disagreed completely with its predecessor and recommended the retention of the tariffs. Though not officially involved, Flanigan sat in on so many of the second task force's deliberations that one participant remarked, "I thought he was a member." Pointedly, it was Non-Member Flanigan who informed the group of the decision it was supposed to make...