Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feeling he had been misused, Baker bounced back fast. He made a dramatic entry into the race for Senate minority leader in 1977 and beat out the favored Senator Robert Griffin of Michigan. He proved surprisingly effective in a generally thankless job, welding the independent-minded Republican Senate barons into a cohesive opposition without making enemies. Says Nevada's G.O.P. Senator Paul Laxalt, Ronald Reagan's campaign chairman: "Nobody has a bad word to say about Howard...
Chrysler also played politics in its pursuit of aid. The company not only recruited Michigan's congressional delegation, led by Senator Don Riegle and Congressman Jim Blanchard, to press its case on Capitol Hill but also dispatched a team of high-powered lobbyists to work up House and Senate support. Much of the pressuring was concentrated on Wisconsin's Proxmire, who had let it be known that he would be in no great hurry to have his committee report out an aid bill before Christmas. Though Proxmire's opposition to the bailout is genuine enough, by last...
...State aid: about $250 million, representing various financial schemes now cooking between Chrysler and the seven states where it has major operations. For example, the state of Michigan plans to mortgage Chrysler's Highland Park headquarters for $150 million...
...through his arguments, if not through his vote. For example, he can make the company at least consider preserving jobs when its knee-jerk reaction to financial difficulty might be massive layoffs. More immediately, he may be able to get Chrysler to re-consider the planned closing of its Michigan Assembly plant...
Kennedy runs a special risk, of course, and not only because he lost two brothers to assassins. Says Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, state director of mental health in Michigan: ''The same charisma in Ted Kennedy that stirs some people to the good, stirs other people to the bad.'' In September, Jimmy Carter ordered the Secret Service to guard Kennedy. They now watch over him around the clock, three shifts of five or six agents each, all identified by a lapel button and an earplug linked to a walkie-talkie. When traveling, Kennedy is usually accompanied by Aide...