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...onetime Marine captain and a widely experienced journalist, Arthur J. Olsen joined the State Department four years ago as public affairs adviser for the Bureau of European Affairs. Earning a reputation for integrity, accuracy and diplomatic expertise, he rapidly became known to State Department reporters as "one of the press information people in Washington who are really worth talking to," in the words of the Washington Post's Chalmers Roberts...
...When Olsen was appointed last month to become the department's chief of press relations, both reporters and diplomats were generally enthusiastic. But the approval in Washington was not unanimous. Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater fired off a note to Secretary of State William Rogers declaring that Olsen's appointment was "personally obnoxious" to him and implying that it be withdrawn...
Report from Bonn. The Senator's grudge against Olsen dates from July 15, 1964 when, in the midst of the Republican National Convention, the New York Times published a story from its Bonn bureau reporting that Goldwater had been exchanging letters with right-wing West German politicians. Most notably, said the story, quoting "competent informants," Goldwater had been in "frequent and friendly" correspondence with Hans-Christoph Seebohm, a conservative who was then the West German Minister of Transport. The byline on the story: "Arthur J. Olsen," then the Times's Bonn bureau chief...
Nixon's house economists are gambling on an upturn by midsummer, and experts like Leif Olsen, senior vice president and economist of First National City Bank, see a lessening of inflation. No one has more riding on an inflationary slowdown than Nixon himself. As a political mathematician, he need only look at economics statistics to realize that few groups have been hit harder by the recession than the usually secure middle class of the West and Midwestern industrial centers that helped him to victory...
...Economist Leif Olsen, vice president, First National City Bank