Word: liaisoning
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...chauffeur-driven Citroën to visit his small farm, some twelve miles north of Saigon. Colonel Nam is not only a soldier in South Viet Nam's army; for the past seven years he has served as his nation's chief liaison officer with the International Control Commission, manned by a Canadian, an Indian and a Pole. The I.C.C. is supposed to "verify" the observance of the treaty terms of the 1954 Geneva Conference, which divided up French Indo-China...
...career was interrupted by World War II. Goldberg joined the Office of Strategic Services, spent the war in liaison with European labor unions, including those in Nazi-occupied territory, performing sabotage and espionage functions. Goldberg was discharged as a major in 1944, and the details of his work remain classified. All he will say is that published stories about his cloak-and-dagger operations behind enemy lines are false. He once wandered into German-held territory in France, but only because he had lost his way-and he quickly discovered the mistake and left the premises...
Check It with Larry. In his operations on Capitol Hill, O'Brien's greatest asset is the all-out backing of the President himself. In the first days of the New Frontier, Jack Kennedy made it obvious to Congressmen that Liaison Man O'Brien was armed with all the authority he might need. Senators and Representatives calling Kennedy with political proposals invariably were asked: "Have you checked that with Larry O'Brien?" They soon got the idea...
...Patronage. Just before O'Brien took over as President Kennedy's liaison representative to Congress, he conferred with Republican Dwight Eisenhower's man on the Hill, Bryce Harlow. From Harlow, O'Brien received a piece of sage advice: not to get too overtly involved with patronage problems. Said Harlow: "With patronage, you will have to turn down ten men for every one you say yes to. You make people unhappy instead of happy...
...qualifications, background, weak points and strong suits of nearly 10,000 prospective officials in the new Administration. One afternoon in Palm Beach, going over the lists of names with O'Brien, Kennedy casually notified him of his new job: "By the way, I think this role of congressional liaison is for you." As a graduate of both houses, Kennedy gave O'Brien a warning against the pitfalls of intimacy. "In politics," the President-elect told him, "you don't have friends. You have allies...