Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There may be more serious abuses in backroom dealings between lobbyist and lawmaker, as past scandals and the Korean bribery affair suggest. Yet on balance the relationship between the governors and the governed, even when the lobbyist does represent one of the nation's many special-interest groups, is often mutually beneficial, and perhaps indispensable, to the fullest workings of democracy. The increasingly knowledgeable and competent Washington lobbyist supplies a practical knowledge vital to the writing of workable laws. He does it at no public expense?and at only the cost of being sure his own interests get the fullest...
...office buildings springing up west of the White House along Pennsylvania Avenue fill up with lobbyists as soon as the painters walk out. It is estimated that lobbyists now spend $1 billion a year to influence Washington opinion, plus another $1 billion to orchestrate public opinion across the nation...
...most visible symbol of the business world's new willingness to get into the trenches is the Business Roundtable, composed of nearly 200 top officers of the nation's most powerful corporations (among them: AT&T, Boeing, DuPont, General Motors, Mobil Oil, General Electric). The group's policy committee convenes monthly in New York to stake out positions on pending legislation and plot strategies to influence the outcome. Often invited to the White House, the executives get their views across to the President. While in Washington, some stay on to buttonhole legislators. Says one lobbyist: "A Congressman is impressed...
Lyndon Johnson once called him "an s.o.b. with elbows." Explains the recipient of that odd encomium, Texas-born Charlie Walker: "Down where we come from, that's a term of endearment." In fact, just about everybody in Washington likes the breezy, boisterous superlobbyist, who represents the nation's biggest corporations, including General Motors Corp., Gulf Oil Corp. and the country's five largest airlines. Even Walker's opponents openly admire him. Says liberal Lawyer Max Kampelman: "He's always on the wrong side, but he's good for his clients. He delivers...
...Crane sees it, this nation's great wealth flowed from the Jeffersonian concept of the unalienable rights of man. Politics today has swung too far toward materialism and needs to re-emphasize our original purpose of sustaining the most just and humane society on earth. To Crane, that means helping the less fortunate but also glorying in unfettered opportunity...