Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exchange or offer ideas. The President is also in the habit of soliciting the views of trusted outsiders: longtime Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow, former Congressman and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former Wisconsin Representative John Byrnes, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and William Whyte, a U.S. Steel vice president and lobbyist who also plays golf with the President...
...which of two men, Jacobsen and Connally, the jurors decided to believe. And despite some odd lapses in his memory, Connally proved to be the more credible. Jacobsen testified that Connally asked him for money shortly after the milk price support increase. The Associated Milk Producers' chief lobbyist, Bob Lilly, testified that he gave Jacobsen $10,000 for Connally in April 1971. Jacobsen claimed that he turned the money over to Connally in two $5,000 installments on May 14 and Sept. 24, 1971-both times in Connally's office at the Treasury Department...
...time the trial began three weeks ago, the government's case was crumbling. Their star witness was Connally's old friend Jake Jacobsen, a former lobbyist for the Associated Milk Producers, who said he gave Connally $10,000 in 1972 in exchange for Connally's support for raising the floor on milk prices. But Jacobsen had only agreed to testify against Connally when prosecutors offered to drop several more serious charges against him in an unrelated bank fraud case. The prosecution had no one to directly corroborate Jacobsen's story--he and Connally were alone when the money changed hands...
...puzzling indeed that Connally blundered by including so many Shultz bills. The purpose of the alleged exercise, after all, was to make it seem the money had been in Jacobsen's safe-deposit box all along. Under Williams' tough crossexamination, Jacobsen also acknowledged that Associated Milk Producers Lobbyist Bob Lilly had given him a third $5,000 for Connally, but that he had no "firm recollection" of actually having passed the money on; that he had told investigative bodies on several occasions that Connally had taken no money from him; and that he had once written Connally...
...campaign. After the increases had been granted, Jacobsen testified last week, Connally asked that since the dairy groups had raised big money for politicians, "why don't they raise some for me?" Jacobsen said that he got $10,000 in $100 bills from Bob Lilly, lobbyist for the Associated Milk Producers, and gave half of it to Connally on May 14, 1971, in his office at the Treasury. Connally took the money to his private bathroom, added Jacobsen, presumably to count and hide it, and then said, "Thank you very much." Jacobsen contended that he gave Connally a second...