Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basis of the evidence disclosed to date, Pat Smith, a sometime lobbyist in the Texas state legislature, thinks there are insufficient grounds for impeachment. "We could suffer this trauma every four years, and we can't afford it." Many Southerners blame the press more than Nixon for the Watergate debacle. Says Nick Parker, an advertising man in Birmingham: "A few Democrats and the liberal press-especially the Washington Post-are persecuting the President and tearing up the country...
Still in Shape. Ford also was accused by former Washington Lobbyist Robert N. Winter-Berger, in his book The Washington Payoff, of being involved in some small stock deals having to do with his membership on the board of the Old Kent Bank and Trust Co. of Grand Rapids. Winter-Berger also claims that Ford did unspecified favors for an unnamed client hi return for $50,000 donated to Republican candidates- but not Ford-in 1970. The minority leader has denied both accusations, and almost no one takes them seriously...
...going for him was the ear and the admiration of the President. Colson had avidly cultivated that contact. Shortly after arriving at the White House, he had met Nixon a dozen times but complained, "The President doesn't even know who I am." Once a corporation lawyer and lobbyist, as well as an assistant to former Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Colson had been hired by Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow as a political tactician. He proceeded to exploit his friendships with many labor leaders. Colson gained Nixon's appreciation with his advice on how the President could gain labor...
...lobby's clout was also enhanced when the voting age was reduced to 18 years in 1971. That added over 1,000,000 youths to the state's voting rolls. Says the U.C.'s official Sacramento lobbyist, Jay Michael: "Now legislators really have to listen to this group because their constituency poses a voting threat...
...long ago that Keith Stroup, head of NORML, appeared to be a rather improbable lobbyist, but now he and his Washington-based organization believe that they are at the threshold of success. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark will soon file a NORML suit in Washington federal district court arguing that the capital's pot-possession laws are unconstitutional. A favorable decision there would add credence to Stroup's prediction that marijuana may be legal nationwide...