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...includes a statement of intent declaring that the burden will be kept to a minimum--most likely that institutions will have to ask students whether they have registered, but leaving the verification up to the feds. "They have given us an adequate framework," says Charles F. Saunders, a lobbyist for the American Council on Education...
...important that everyone in the Administration knew there was a clearing house," explains Darman. Other core participants: Baker's partners in the White House top troika, Michael Deaver, 44, and Meese; Communications Director David Gergen, 40; Kenneth Duberstein, 38, the Administration's gregarious and highly effective lobbyist on Capitol Hill; Budget Director David Stockman, 35; and Craig Fuller, 31, who coordinates the work of the Cabinet...
Over eleven years Watt held Washington jobs that honed his expertise and his ideology. As a U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyist, he worked to defeat all manner of environmental regulation. In the Nixon and Ford Administrations he served a well-rounded apprenticeship: as an Interior deputy in charge of water management, as director of the department's land-buying Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and, finally, as a federal power commissioner. As a result, Secretary Watt's technical mastery of his job is positively staggering...
...grandiose behavior stems from a boyish love of audacity and outrage, some from an outsize appetite for experience. He once told George Breece, his Washington lobbyist, "I want to live five lives. I have to hurry to get them...
Several months ago, when one of Alexander Haig's periodic eruptions appeared to signal his imminent departure from office, George Shultz ran into an old friend from Nixon Administration days on a Washington street. "I think he's going to go," said the friend, Washington Lobbyist Charls Walker. "Who do you think they'll get?" asked Shultz. "You," answered Walker, with a laugh...