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Another highly effective White House aide, Chief Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf, resigned last week. Friedersdorf apparently quit for personal reasons; he had been hospitalized by an asthma attack last summer and took a less hectic job as U.S. consul general in Bermuda. He was replaced by Kenneth Duberstein, one of his chief assistants, who had proved adept at lining up votes for Reagan's programs in the Democratic-controlled House. Nonetheless, a lobbyist with Friedersdorf's skill in wooing legislators is bound to be missed...
...black leaders interpret the firings as all too symbolic of the Administration's retreat on such civil rights issues as school integration, affirmative action and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which Reagan has criticized as overly broad. "What the Administration is trying to do," says Althea Simmons, Washington lobbyist for the N.A.A.C.P., "is not just put civil rights on the back burner, but take it off the stove completely...
...King surprised his host by disclosing that he had agreed to buy SA-6 antiaircraft missiles from the Soviets. Altogether, the week's news reinforced an impression that the Administration is improvising day to day in Middle East diplomacy rather than following a careful strategy. Said one American lobbyist for Israel, alluding to U.S. efforts to build a radar-eluding airplane: "Reagan's Middle East policy is like the Stealth-you can't see it or hear it, but it sure bombs...
...Democrat Russell ("Sugar Ray") Long of Louisiana, who is fighting for sugar price supports in the pending farm bill and is notorious among his colleagues for trying to get the most mileage for his votes. Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa said that he hung up on White House Lobbyist Powell Moore when Moore linked the AWACS vote to the nomination of Grassley's candidate for U.S. Attorney in Iowa. All three Senators ended up with the President, but the White House insists that it was not because any side deals were made...
...charge that as Vice President Johnson was sent, through one of his aides, a $50,000 cash contribution is not new, even though the Atlantic issued a press release touting the disclosure. Gulf Oil Lobbyist Claude Wild Jr. testified in 1975 that he made such political donations. Caro says that his three-volume biography - the 30,000-word article was excerpted from the first volume, to be published next fall - will be extensively footnoted. His book The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, which won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for biography, is meticulously documented...