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...campaign. After the increases had been granted, Jacobsen testified last week, Connally asked that since the dairy groups had raised big money for politicians, "why don't they raise some for me?" Jacobsen said that he got $10,000 in $100 bills from Bob Lilly, lobbyist for the Associated Milk Producers, and gave half of it to Connally on May 14, 1971, in his office at the Treasury. Connally took the money to his private bathroom, added Jacobsen, presumably to count and hide it, and then said, "Thank you very much." Jacobsen contended that he gave Connally a second...
...agency supplied information about Maheu in connection with his successful defamation suit against Hughes for calling him a thief. For their part, Hughes' employees kept the CIA informed about the activities of White House Plumber E. Howard Hunt. Among other things, they reported that he had interviewed ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard and planned to rifle the files of Las Vegas Publisher Hank Greenspun in search of information that might embarrass Democratic Presidential Candidate Edmund Muskie. At the time, ex-CIA Agent Hunt was also working for Robert R. Mullen & Co., a now defunct public relations firm in Washington that...
This kind of relationship between the military and the aesthetic is almost unimaginable today: transpose it to America and you have a Pentagon lobbyist fiddling with a watercolor kit. We think of art as the product of mercantile classes. Yet one of the supreme moments in Japanese culture was almost wholly a military creation...
...totally unanticipated reason: the conservatives' outrage over the intrusion of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller into the fight over making it easier to cut off Senate filibusters. Although Ford discussed the issue with Rockefeller, he was not directly involved in the Vice President's actions. One Administration lobbyist concluded that "a lot of conservatives are inclined to take out their frustrations on the President." At one point in the Senate debate, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long reddened with anger and declared: "I thought that I was going to help this Administration when possible. But I have grave doubts about...
...changing. Critics charge that his views reflect the fact that his state's largest employer is the Boeing Co. (hence "the Senator from Boeing"). The charge is not quite fair. Jackson has worked on the company's behalf, and during the SST debate he let a Boeing lobbyist work out of his office. But Jackson fundamentally believes that new technology is essential to preserve peace and U.S. freedom. As he once said, "The way you get the Soviets to the conference table is from a position of strength." He provided much of the impetus behind the Navy...