Word: liaisoning
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...believe how this is going to upset the Speaker," said President Carter's congressional liaison...
...they don't," Midge Costanza liked to say. In the White House, as the months wore on, it seemed that more and more members of Jimmy Carter's all-male Georgia Mafia did not cotton to the brash, opinionated woman who served as his Assistant for Public Liaison-his emissary to women, ethnics and other demanding constituent groups. "A flake and a clown," some staffers grumbled openly when she made headlines with her impulsive acts-prematurely calling for Bert Lance's resignation, injudiciously using her office to round up guests for a fund raiser...
...four had been under investigation since October 1977, following the public confession by a former airline pilot, Andrew Newton, 33, that he had been offered roughly $10,000 by a nameless "prominent Liberal" and friend of Thorpe's to murder Scott and thus silence the claims of homosexual liaison. Newton had been sentenced to two years in prison after shooting Scott's dog and threatening the indigent model...
...bill, which finally passed the House in April, came up last week before Senator Abraham Ribicoff's Governmental Affairs Committee?and was promptly consigned to either imminent death or limbo by the lobbyists. Leading the assault against it were such diverse persuaders as William Timmons, the former Capitol Hill liaison man for the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Freelancers Maurice Rosenblatt and William Bonsib, and Diane Rennert of the Association of American Publishers. In a multiple assault, they first threw their weight behind a much milder version of the bill, which was substituted for Ribicoff's stiff version. Despite telephone calls...
...fertile ground in which to cultivate votes. So too has the decrease in White House leverage on Congress. This is partly due to the relative ineffectiveness of Carter's own lobbyists on the Hill. "I like Frank Moore," says one labor lobbyist about the President's chief congressional liaison, "but he's a greenhorn. He's lost in Congress." Carter's own mild approach to Congress is also at fault. Some veterans on the Hill vividly recall Lyndon Johnson's brutal lobbying as President. "What do you do when the President gets you on the phone and eats your consummate...