Word: liaisoning
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...Greenbrier, Louisa Kennedy, wife of former Hostage Moorhead Kennedy, announced that the hostage family group she helped found, called FLAG (Family Liaison Action Group) will now concentrate on gaining financial compensation for the returned Americans. Pending such financial aid, the State Department last week conferred its second highest honor, the Award of Valor, on the Marine guards and diplomatic personnel who had been seized...
...indicate an ominous degree of disunity in the Administration. Moreover, Haig would be hard to replace, since no other foreign policy heavyweight was readily available and acceptable to Reagan. Finally, around 9:15 a.m. the President and Haig met to settle the affair. While they conferred, White House Congressional Liaison Max Friedersdorf phoned Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker three times to keep him posted on developments. Eventually, the White House drew up a statement that was intended to mollify Haig without giving ground on the Bush appointment...
...course, should be able to organize his staff as he pleases, but that staff has grown so haphazardly in recent years that it sometimes interferes with good administration. Since Nixon's presidency, White House aides have from time to tune usurped the function of Cabinet officers, congressional liaison aides have tried to dictate policy to the House and Senate instead of reasoning with them, and National Security Advisers have overshadowed Secretaries of State as architects of foreign policy...
...congressional cliques. U.S. diplomacy, however, would almost automatically become more consistent, credible and effective if Congress, at its own initiative, demonstrated discipline and bipartisanship in offering advice and consent to the Executive Branch. The new Administration, in turn, could help by being more solicitous and skillful in its liaison with Capitol Hill than has recently been the case...
DIED. Jack Zuinglius Anderson, 76, California rancher who was elected to seven consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 1939, and later served President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a congressional liaison specializing in farm legislation; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Hollister, Calif...