Word: liaison
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...joined the battle for some of his key programs, such as welfare reform and revenue sharing, only when it was much too late?and then he blistered Congress for not acting on them. Even the new Republican National Chairman, Kansas Senator Robert Dole, used to complain about the poor liaison; as many as 80 telephone calls at a time from Congressmen and Senators would go unanswered by White House aides...
...local conferences around the nation -while generally avoiding the kind of party fund-raising events that might bring forth his old sulfurous partisanship. He will also try to work closely with the nation's Governors and, unlikely as it may sound, court ethnic groups, including blacks. Such liaison was supposed to be an Agnew assignment all along...
Political Folly. The Senate's skeptics cited Nixon's vetoes, his threat to convene the new Congress on Jan. 4 instead of Jan. 21, poor liaison with "his old friends" in the Senate. Said one Republican: "It's like he's running against the Congress already for 1972." One leading Democratic aide ready to accept, like many others, what they see as a clear challenge from Nixon, gleefully perceived political folly in some of the positions the President is taking: "Education, hospital construction, campaign-spending limits, manpower training. The things he's saying...
...White House, the Vice President promised to spend more time serving as Nixon's intermediary in state-level politics. He was assigned that job by the President in February 1969, but has spent little time fulfilling its duties. Pledged Agnew: "We will strengthen our efforts at liaison...
...Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns calls "more widespread and more intense" than at any time since World War II. Unprofitable products were dropped, inefficient factories closed, research projects curtailed, advertising budgets pruned. It was the year of the layoff. Labor hoarding gave way to payroll paring at every level. Liaison men, coordinators and other functionaries with fuzzily defined duties proved to be particularly vulnerable. Layers of superfluous executives, built up over the euphoric years, were fired or pushed into early retirement. As part of one hold-down, the assistant controller of a Pittsburgh steel company daringly recommended that...