Word: lobbyist
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Profound Effect. Nonetheless, Buckley's defection had a profound effect on conservatives, particularly on those in Congress. "What Buckley has done is pull a plug on the President's most important reservoir," says Howard Phillips, a Washington lobbyist for the American Conservative Union. At the very least, Buckley's pronouncement will force many on the right to reconsider the reasons why they want Nixon to stay in office. Says Congressman Bauman: "Some of us feel that Senator Buckley said many of the things that we have had on our minds, although we may not agree that Nixon...
Criminal activity relating to the Watergate scandal reaches beyond the seven Nixon aides indicted last week. It embraces accusations involving illegal campaign contributions by Financier Robert L. Vesco and perjury charges against Milk-Industry Lobbyist Jake Jacobsen. In addition, nine corporations have been fined for making illegal campaign donations. But most damaging for the President is the large number of his aides and agents who have already been to court. Before the latest indictments, 18 men with connections to the White House or the Committee for the Re-Election of the President had been indicted or convicted or had pleaded...
Harold S. Geneen. Among the plumbers' unit's activities was spiriting Dita Beard, a lobbyist for International Telephone and Telegraph, away from reporters inquiring into ITT's contributions to Nixon's re-election campaign. The gifts were apparently intended to get an anti-trust suit dropped--as it later was, at Nixon's personal insistence. ITT's President Geneen should probably come to trial for bribery. But just as some of the alleged Watergate consirators should have been tried years ago for other matters--things like ordering illegal mass arrests of political dissenters, as John N. Mitchell did during...
...after, the stock market's recently leaden Dow Jones industrial average shot up almost 50 points, its largest two-day gam ever; Wall Street analysts attributed part of it to a boost in political confidence caused by Ford's swearing-in. In Washington, an AFL-CIO lobbyist said that Ford's arrival was "our go-ahead" for a broadened labor push for impeachment. In addition, the two dailies owned by Chicago's Field Enterprises chose Ford's inauguration day as the occasion to urge in editorials the "vigorous pursuit" of impeachment proceedings against Nixon. Said...
...Dismissed as "utterly preposterous" the claim by onetime Washington Lobbyist Robert N. Winter-Berger in his book The Washington Pay-Off that he had lent the Congressman more than $15,000. Said Ford: "I categorically, unqualifiedly and unreservedly say that...