Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having good friends in high places did not hurt Connally. Largely because of his close relationship with L.B.J., he was hired in 1952 by Multimillionaire Oilman Sid Richardson. Connally, as chief administrator and lobbyist for Richardson, was primarily concerned with guarding against any Government effort to reduce the depletion allowance, which then allowed a 27.5% tax deduction on the income of oil and gas producers. In 1956, Connally was among the main lobbyists in Washington who worked for the passage of a bill freeing natural gas from federal price controls. Under the protective wing of Johnson and House Speaker...
Second-Rate Status. Instead, as one Pentagon lobbyist said, "We put it to every Senator strictly on the basis of national security. We told them the services would have to call up reserves and induct people who had been previously deferred." The President suggested that he would accuse Senators voting against the draft of relegating the U.S. to second-rate military status. Observed Stennis: "It would be a serious mistake to delay this bill because of a disagreement about...
Breathtaking Expansion. During his eight years at CUNY, Bowker has indeed become an irreplaceable crisis manager and shrewd lobbyist for city and state funds. Disarmingly low-keyed and rumpled (he looks, say aides, "like an unmade bed"), he has charmed state legislators and plugged his office into New York politics by installing hot lines to both Mayor John Lindsay and Governor Nelson Rockefeller. As a result, he has engineered a breathtaking expansion of both CUNY's enrollment (now 195,000) and its commitment to solving urban problems. His major accomplishment came last fall when he launched CUNY...
...fascinating trend on U.S. campuses this year is the emergence of hired professionals to defend students' interests. At six of the University of California's nine campuses, for instance, student governments are spending $ 12,000 for a lobbyist to represent them for six months at the state capital in Sacramento. Boston University students have retained a local attorney; federal poverty lawyers help University of Michigan students. But what if the lawyers clash with the administrators...
...Dean of the Law School, Bok has had experience as a fund-raiser, academic lobbyist, figurehead and personable administrator. His role, however, has never called for him to surround himself with a large administrative staff, and this is where he will have his first impact as President-elect...