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...campaign without his "knowledge or consent." Thus Massachusetts' Senator Ted Kennedy, like many another Congress member, could and did file a report declaring that his 1962 campaign expenses were zero-though his supporters spent an estimated $2,000,000. Not that a campaign contribution necessarily means undue influence. Lobbyist Julius Klein obtained such a hold on Senator Dodd that he was able to write him bullying instructions, yet Klein also made sizable contributions to the campaigns of Senators Everett Dirksen and Jacob Javits, without any suggestion that he corrupted them. Still, contributions do often establish a strong and lingering...
...legislator has his own way of raising money, most notably the testimonial dinner. It has the advantage that no single contribution is "major," even at $500 a plate. In the trade, such affairs are often known as "blackjack" dinners, since lobbyists or trade associations for whom the Congressman has done a favor are pointedly notified and often arbitrarily assigned an allotted number of tickets. In Washington, a favorite variant is the campaign cocktail party. Says one lobbyist ruefully: "I get invited to about two every month. They are so well organized that after the first drink, they pass blank checks...
...constant strains during Romney's life have been his firm Mormon convictions and his knack for selling. As a Mormon missionary in Britain for two years, as an aluminum salesman in Los Angeles, as an Alcoa lobbyist in Washington during the New Deal, as chief spokesman for the Automobile Manufacturers Association during World War II, he was an intense, determined seller...
Romney the missionary, lobbyist, and salesman committed himself to his product. He knew what he was promoting thoroughly and was apparently able to persuade people. Romney the politician and presidential aspirant must sell his record, his ideas, and himself. The last two are not easy to promote, even for the master of public relations, but his record is a near cinch...
Real Resentments. Farmers have been known to poor-mouth it in the past. "The farmer will never admit that things are going good," says a farm lobbyist. "But let the fellow next door want to sell out, and he'll find the money to buy that farm." Nonetheless, the farmer's resentments seem real enough-as the Democrats discovered in last November's elections. Last week, to demonstrate the party's concern, Vice President Hubert Humphrey-and Senator Robert Kennedy followed Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to the National Farmers Union convention in Oklahoma City. Speaking...