Word: nixons
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Harvard's main lobbyist is Nan Nixon, who is also employed by Stanford, the University of Michigan and other universities. A Washington attorney and a registered lobbyist, Nixon works as a consultant and representative for Harvard on health and biomedical issues, Parker Cottington, of the Government and Community Affairs Office, explains...
...Nixon's name is a familiar one to many Washington staffers, for in the course of her work for Harvard she has developed a wide range of Congressional and bureaucratic contacts--as Cottington put it, "acting as our eyes and ears on the Washington world." Nixon worked as a unofficial lobbyist, until "Gradually she got to know many people who were turning to her with questions. Someone finally said we should face the fact that Nan was doing a substantial amount of lobbying," Cottington recalls. Nixon registered as a lobbyist in March of this year...
...Nixon's lobbying activities focus on health and biomedical legislation. This year, she became involved in the medical school funding issues after an amendment was tacked to a House bill at 3 a.m. requiring medical schools receiving government funds to admit a quota of foreign medical students. Cottington says if Congress had realized the unanimous opposition the bill faced from medical schools it would not have passed the amendment. Cottington also notes that Harvard prefers to work with staffers so that the University will never find itself with similar last-minute battles to fight. He cites this...
...focusing on the House side, where Harvard and two other universities formed a loosely organized group known as "Friends of DNA," which produces a monthly newsletter to keep approximately 75 universities on the mailing list informed of the progress of DNA legislation. The Friends of DNA also hired Nan Nixon to represent the group to legislators. Nixon later registered as an official lobbyist. Staffers described Harvard lobbying as arrogant and aggressive, but Harvard administrators said they believed their lobbying was not extraordinarily aggressive...
Perhaps we should not be too shocked at the decision by a court that still bears so clearly the mark of former president Richard M. Nixon. We are, however, both surprised and disappointed by the Carter administration's stand on this issue. The Solicitor General's office has failed to rally to the press's defense, bolstering instead the search power of law enforcement officials...