Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...return to law practice or start a new career. "Be a snow-plow operator in Tahoe," jokes Patterson, "or something like that." In the end, Patterson chose Washington. An influential former member of the House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee, he became a Washington-based attorney and lobbyist for a California law firm, at about double the annual $75,100 congressional salary...
Associates and acquaintances of Regan predict, as Washington Lobbyist Jack Albertine puts it, that "he will be one of the strongest chiefs of staff in history. The White House will be a tight ship." That may be overstated, but it is clear that the collegial style of staff organization, in which Baker had ultimately emerged first among equals, had been breaking down. Meese had been sidetracked by his confirmation troubles and the investigations of his personal business dealings with friends who later gained federal jobs. Baker was burning out, and Deaver felt pinched on his Government salary...
...White House ship, depending upon their own interests there. Right now, says a presidential aide, "nobody knows who's in charge of what, and people like (Defense Secretary Caspar) Weinberger slip in the back door and get policy changed at odd hours without anybody realizing what's happened." A lobbyist agrees, but prefers things that way. Says he: "If Baker blocked you, you could go to Meese or Clark. No more. Regan will nail up the back door." A Washington-based business leader sees another key difference in the Baker and Regan styles. "Let's face it," he contends, "Baker...
From his first day in office, Duarte moved on all fronts. He proved an able lobbyist in Washington, charming a reluctant Congress into approving some $200 million in economic and military aid. He shuffled the command of El Salvador's security forces, long considered the breeding ground for the death squads, and watched the number of killings sink from 40 a month to less than a dozen. He assured businessmen, deeply suspicious of his left-leaning economic and social policies, that he would listen to them...
While gnashing and wailing on behalf of clients, lobbyists are rubbing their hands over the fees they will earn from upcoming campaigns. They only hope the war will be a long one. "It's going to be big, really big, and it may last for years," chortles Tax Lobbyist Robert McCandless. "This could be the lobbyists' full-employment...