Word: liaisoning
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...Chapter Two, the belated diversionary tactic is to have Brother Leo and Jennie's best friend Faye Medwick (Ann Wedgeworth) indulge in a teasy, vaudevillian, near adulterous liaison. Wedgeworth is a lispy, New Yorky clown with Valentine's Day on the brain, and her performance is as impeccable as her body is scannable. Not to scant the men. It will take the year or so that their contracts have to run to find adequate replacements for the richly gifted Hirsch and Gorman...
...happen again." That contrite promise has become a kind of unofficial motto for Frank Moore, assistant to the President for congressional liaison. Repeatedly during the past year, he has had to apologize for failures on the part of the White House to consult, inform or massage the egos of the increasingly assertive men and women on Capitol Hill about something Jimmy Carter is doing or wants done...
Moore's allies in the White House believe his very job makes him a scapegoat. Says Press Secretary Jody Powell: "Most of the things he gets blamed for are someone else's fault." Including, in some cases, Carter's. The President views liaison with Congress on vital issues as his own responsibility-one he has discharged with uneven success. As a result, he has sometimes failed to keep Moore sufficiently informed to be effective. For instance, the U.S.-Soviet statement on the Middle East caught Moore as much by surprise as it did his Hill contacts. Another...
...than anyone else on the White House staff. They first met in the early 1960s and worked together in 1966 on a Georgia planning commission. Moore, 42, joined Carter's gubernatorial staff in 1970 and in 1972 replaced Hamilton Jordan as Carter's executive secretary and legislative liaison when Jordan went to work for the Democratic National Committee in Washington...
...home rather than abroad. Underscoring Japan's concern about its strained trade relations with the U.S. and Europe, Fukuda also created a new Cabinet post, Minister of External Economic Affairs, and named Nobuhiko Ushiba, 68, a former Ambassador to Washington, to fill it. Ushiba will act as liaison and troubleshooter with Japan's trading partners...