Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...region is most dependent on imported oil and would be hardest hit by the Ford tariff. Last week the New England caucus released a letter challenging Ford's right to act under the 1962 trade act without public hearings. "No matter what the Congress does," says a New England lobbyist on Capitol Hill, "the tariff makes it Ford's program. He'll be blamed for the consequences. It'll be like Lyndon Johnson...
...immigrant father's cafe and bar back in Springfield, Mass., O'Brien rose to play a unique national role. He managed John Kennedy's spectacular unseating of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in 1952 and directed Kennedy to the presidency in 1960. As chief congressional lobbyist for both Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he led the drive that ended in the most significant social legislation since the days of F.D.R. Yet O'Brien was also with Jack at Dallas and Bob at Los Angeles. He agonized with Hubert Humphrey after managing Humphrey's losing campaign against Richard...
officials around the country will be divided among several staffers. William Timmons, Nixon's chief congressional liaison, is planning to leave in the near future. His replacement: Max Friedersdorf, 45, who is currently Ford's lobbyist in the House of Representatives and was Timmons' assistant...
...third and final myth is that the lobbyists are a bad influence on legislatures. This I categorically deny. I have been proud to call myself a lobbyist because that is the role I have been playing, for Cambridge, for mental health, for the reorganization of human services. I know I have been effective in proposing, testing, inquiring, communicating. In this way I have been taking part in a legitimate and indispensable process that is required equally of a citizen as a free agent and of a paid representative of any interest group. I am disturbed when I see this role...
...Grand Rapids alone, fanned out to investigate his background, but Ford instructed anybody who asked: "Tell them the truth?give them everything." Everything did not amount to very much. He had been careless about disclosing the names of campaign contributors in his last election. A discredited Washington lobbyist had accused him of accepting money for favors. By the end of the televised hearings, Ford emerged with his reputation intact and even enhanced...