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When Richard Nixon took office, Dole stayed on at the consumer office, which had moved to the White House, though the new President's policies were oriented more toward manufacturers than consumers. The enterprising Dole visited the home of the new director, Virginia Knauer, and gave her a detailed, unsolicited briefing on the department. Knauer made Dole deputy director of the White House Office of Consumer Affairs, where she looked for common ground between consumers and manufacturers, and helped persuade supermarkets to date products for freshness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIDDY MAKES PERFECT | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...Knauer took a shine to her unmarried but very eligible deputy, and in the spring of 1972 arranged for Elizabeth to meet a certain recently divorced Senator from Kansas. In her memoir, Mrs. Dole remarks that she found the Senator "awfully attractive" but he didn't call her and she wouldn't call him. She ran into Dole again at the 1972 Republican Convention, and this time he did call. Their romance progressed with all the speed of an omnibus budget resolution wending its way through committee, and they were married in 1975. Elizabeth finally had her trophy husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIDDY MAKES PERFECT | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

Promotion: Liza Greene, Kelly Knauer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead: Nov. 1, 1990 | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...Nate Knauer (C) d. Aaron Danzig...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Grapplers Mauled by Big Red | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

Both sides agree that what is crimping the consumer movement most is rising worries about broader economic problems. Says President Reagan's consumer adviser Virginia Knauer: "Inflation is the No. 1 consumer concern. It is what the election was all about." Agrees Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America: "We underestimated people's concern with their economic condition. The main issue for most people now is one of economic survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let the Buyers Beware | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

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