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...Forest Industries Council hired Lake's firm to "track legislation" and monitor "administrative activities." A month later, the Commerce Department imposed a 14.5% tariff on subsidized lumber imports from Canada under the terms of the U.S.-Canada free trade pact. During the next 10 weeks, Lake twice telephoned Clayton Yeutter, who was then White House domestic-policy adviser; in a conversation on May 10, Lake asked Yeutter to take a phone call from a lawyer pleading the Canadians' case. Five days later, the Commerce Department reduced the duty on lumber imports to 6.5%. Yeutter has denied that Lake's intervention...
Thus, when the White House decided to send a top official to St. Louis last week to counter the Clinton-Gore bus tour, it assigned presidential adviser Clayton Yeutter, who emphasized that "Clinton does not have one-tenth the stature that the President has all over the world. The American people are going to wake up and realize this...
...Yeutter said Bush cannot be held accountable for America's economic woes...
...Yeutter countered by stressing the necessity for good foreign relations, for which "our Democratic friends haven't even formulated a farm team...
...that reason alone, Yeutter said, "Bush will be reelected by a handy margin next year...