Word: backchannel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Black's firm sold its services in a proposal to the Pindling government on the basis of its "backchannel relationship" with the Reagan Administration. Black promoted his skills in the third person: "Many believe his meticulous organization of the key primary states resulted in President Reagan's nomination." The firm contacted the Vice President's office 18 times in 1985 and 1986 on behalf of the Bahamas. (Although Bush Campaign Manager Lee Atwater has been a partner in Black's firm, he avoids a conflict of interest by refusing to be part of the lobbying side of the business...
...they are assumed to have achieved it last year.) They unabashedly peddle their access to the Reagan Administration. The firm's proposal soliciting the Bahamas as a client, for instance, touted the "personal relationships between State Department officials and Black, Manafort & Stone" that could be "utilized to upgrade a backchannel relationship in the economic and foreign policy spheres...
...with him at the State Department. The Secretary ran through a long list of complaints, citing specifically the private meetings that the National Security Adviser had held with Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Washington. In Haig's view, those meetings constituted a White House attempt to conduct backchannel dealings and undercut him in foreign policy. He also complained that Vice President George Bush had been sent as head of the U.S. delegation to memorial services for the late King Khalid in Saudi Arabia, and that he had been cut off from cables addressed to the White House from...