Word: lobbyists
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...hearty condemnation to the other voices that have expressed anger and disillusion with Bok's approach to an issue on which he carries so much weight, both as a lobbyist and as an educational leader. If the president of an influential university can compromise his support of the basic principles of equal opportunity in favor of doubtful statistical patterns, we can hardly hope the Reaganites will be more generous. We hope Bok will instead continue to use his considerable influence to further the educational causes that most need support in Washington, rather than distracting the lawmakers and confusing the issues...
...main organization opposing the original plan was the Coalition for Basic Human Needs, an area group, representing welfare recipients. Dale Mitchell, a lobbyist for the Coalition said that while the group has some reservations with the final draft, they are basically in agreement. "We are pleased. This is one of the few instances that [the Governor's office] has been concerned about...
DIED. Thomas Corcoran, 80, savvy Washington lawyer and lobbyist who helped shape Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; of a pulmonary blood clot; in Washington, D.C. Corcoran, who had once served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, became an influential member of F.D.R.'s brain trust. Nicknamed "Tommy the Cork" by Roosevelt, Corcoran served as a presidential speechwriter and liaison with Congress, and helped write the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. He was one of Roosevelt's key aides in the Chief Executive...
Another highly effective White House aide, Chief Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf, resigned last week. Friedersdorf apparently quit for personal reasons; he had been hospitalized by an asthma attack last summer and took a less hectic job as U.S. consul general in Bermuda. He was replaced by Kenneth Duberstein, one of his chief assistants, who had proved adept at lining up votes for Reagan's programs in the Democratic-controlled House. Nonetheless, a lobbyist with Friedersdorf's skill in wooing legislators is bound to be missed...
...black leaders interpret the firings as all too symbolic of the Administration's retreat on such civil rights issues as school integration, affirmative action and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which Reagan has criticized as overly broad. "What the Administration is trying to do," says Althea Simmons, Washington lobbyist for the N.A.A.C.P., "is not just put civil rights on the back burner, but take it off the stove completely...