Word: lobbyists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important that everyone in the Administration knew there was a clearing house," explains Darman. Other core participants: Baker's partners in the White House top troika, Michael Deaver, 44, and Meese; Communications Director David Gergen, 40; Kenneth Duberstein, 38, the Administration's gregarious and highly effective lobbyist on Capitol Hill; Budget Director David Stockman, 35; and Craig Fuller, 31, who coordinates the work of the Cabinet...
...grandiose behavior stems from a boyish love of audacity and outrage, some from an outsize appetite for experience. He once told George Breece, his Washington lobbyist, "I want to live five lives. I have to hurry to get them...
Several months ago, when one of Alexander Haig's periodic eruptions appeared to signal his imminent departure from office, George Shultz ran into an old friend from Nixon Administration days on a Washington street. "I think he's going to go," said the friend, Washington Lobbyist Charls Walker. "Who do you think they'll get?" asked Shultz. "You," answered Walker, with a laugh...
...lobbyist for The Tobacco Institute argued at the meeting that the ban represents "discrimination" against the tobacco industry's constitutional right to advertise...
...King has proven his qualifications. "There wasn't really an attempt to have an ongoing liason," he says. He visits the State House two or three times a week just "talking with the various people, asking them what's happening." Emphasizing that he is not a "lobbyist," King prefers to think of himself as "just providing the facts...