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When Arkansas state troopers Larry Patterson and Roger Perry met with reporters last week, standing beside them as media liaison and anecdote prodder was a Little Rock lawyer whom friends of Bill Clinton have taken to calling ''Ahab.'' It is a befitting moniker: from the moment he began telling journalists last year that Clinton was lying about the draft, Cliff Jackson has been out to harpoon the President. The question is why. Surprisingly, the two have much in common. Both were overachievers who grew up in small Arkansas towns; both won scholarships to Oxford; they even served as co-captains...
White sees his role as captain as that of prodder, rather than any strict type of leader. "Basically I'll be pushing people a little and try to bring to life the team spirit," White said yesterday...
Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns has been an intellectual prodder to the Nixon Administration, speaking up in favor of such unpleasant but necessary moves as wage-price controls and dollar devaluation. Last week he set out to overcome the Administration's seeming hesitancy to start negotiations quickly for rebuilding the world financial system, which cracked apart last summer and was only patched back together by last December's currency realignments. At a conference of U.S. and foreign bankers in Montreal, he outlined a ten-point program that was the first statement by a high U.S. official of goals...
...Galbraith, economics is a vehicle for achieving broad social aims. More than anyone else, he injects social ideas into the bloodstream of economics. As prodder, pleader and proselytizer, he is unrivaled in the U.S. today. "Galbraith is an antenna and a synthesizer," says Samuelson. "He senses what is in the air and puts it together and packages...
...testing is not critically dangerous. Last year he backed continued U.S. nuclear testing in a report to President Eisenhower that H-bombs can be made 96% "cleaner." The Radiation Laboratory flourished under his direction, built a bevatron for advanced particle research. Lawrence became chiefly an organizer, a humorous, vigorous prodder who steamed around Berkeley encouraging younger men with-as nuclear physicists put it-"all rods...