Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Major General Wilton B. Persons, 81, amiable chief assistant to President Eisenhower (1958-61); in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. During World War II Persons was the Army's top lobbyist on Capitol Hill-a job he performed so well that Chief of Staff General George Marshall refused General Eisenhower's request for Persons' services in North Africa. Although Persons retired from the Army in 1949, Eisenhower persuaded him to return to active duty in 1951 to act as his go-between in Paris with foreign diplomats. He later served as Eisenhower's campaign adviser...
...giving top executives a $1,000 raise on the understanding that it was to be donated in $50 installments to a political slush fund. The pot was used for contributions to local and state officials friendly to Bell rate increases. Ward K. Wilkinson, the company's Austin lobbyist, admitted that he collected $1,200 a month from Bell executives for a political fund that was kept in cash in his office safe...
...adventure. Esalen continues to shelter 5,000 people a year, but instead of vagabonds, its climate runs to corporate executives. Innovation can be found in the present climate, but it now occurs quietly, less flamboyantly. Instead of protesting, the University of California's 125,000 students employ a lobbyist (at $84,000 a year) to battle the legislature. Nearly a dozen "open universities" in the Bay Area alone provide a less structured, tutorial approach to learning. The ruddy affluent of Marin County have made holistic medical clinics into community centers that sometimes offer their clients life-style-evaluation group...
...general, said Kissinger, in a comment that seemed to apply to U.S. corporate dealings at home as well as abroad, "businessmen's conception of how to influence Government is that when they are in deep trouble they send some lobbyist around to promote some limited specific objective that pays off very rapidly. Labor is far more intelligent. I know of no business that has a long-term research organization and a long-term ability to work with Congress and the Executive Branch when there is no pressure...
...both that campaign and the one against the consumer protection agency, business lobbyists also roused the folks back home to put heat on Congress. They formed Southern businessmen's groups to exhort Dixie House members, and some corporations sent letters to stockholders urging them to write to Congressmen in opposition to the consumer agency. Says Andrew Biemiller, chief AFL-CIO lobbyist: "One thing they can do is flood that goddamned Hill with letters." Motley adds that the N.F.I.B. can turn out "local auto dealers, local accountants and dry cleaners, hardware dealers, dairymen-Kiwanians, Lions, church people. When we tell...