The Key to Surviving in Washington
Segal, David
Washington's Nice Problem It may look nasty from the outside, but what really ails the nation's capital is too many nice people who don't want to leave BY DAVID SEGAL ¦¦ IJ^Hiis is a town that...
...There's just one answer, son...
...Much of official Washington, therefore, is always facing the prospect of looking elsewhere for work—or going home...
...Pentagon bureaucrats are tasked with ensuring that weapons systems get built on time, and, ideally, function as advertised...
...To get a sense of how toxic Washington nice-ness can be, let's look at three different facets of the same problem...
...The same day he announced his retirement, job offers from the city's most successful lobbying outfits lit up his phones...
...The more friends you had while in office, the more clients you can help...
...But each one was wrong...
...I said, 'Well, I don't know, I don't do anything I don't want to do.' And he said, 'You've never lobbied me, I guess.' I said, 'Excuse me...
...in fact, the two usually get on with symbiotic smoothness...
...When Moffet twice sought a wider stage, however, he twice came up short, losing in bids for the Senate in '82 and the governor's job in '86...
...Pap smears can be invaluable help in identifying the early stages of cervical cancer, when it is easily treatable...
...Little of what goes wrong here can be attributed to wicked people doing evil...
...The C.I.A.'s record on that point is not encouraging," he writes...
...Again, the price of upsetting business as usual is high, and its benefits—in terms of survival, in terms of staying in Washington—hard to see...
...Defense contractors frequently can offer double the government's money, so it's not unusual for milicrats to marshal a program through the DoD and Congress and then join the staff of the program's defense contractor shortly thereafter...
...I send letters, once in a while I pick up a phone...
...The town affords folks the chance to work on important issues with important people...
...and finally, how it can turn around even those politicians who come to town looking to buck the system...
...Raymond McGrath...
...I saw Steve Engleberg, who was Ferraro's person, and I had known in Mondale's office back in those years...
...It may sound like a lab for testing six packs, but the Beer Institute is actually the lobbying arm of the beer industry...
...For anyone who thinks that plying connections must be humiliating work, Moffet's experience is corrective...
...Meeting the man puts an appealing and human face on what is arguably a greedy lobby financed by huge, not-so-appealing corporations...
...it happens on the phone, in lunches, at meetings, fundraisers, social gatherings on junkets, and at dinner parties...
...Everyone else is working hard to make sure they don't have to leave at all...
...Sitting in his large corner office, he smiles easily as he explains why he's at the Beer Institute...
...On the contrary, people tend to empathize with those who help them survive or raise their . profile...
...Under the picture, Rosty scribbled a tribute to McGrath for some valuable help in 1986: "I had no better friend on the tax bill (on your side of the aisle...
...Much of the agencies' work these days is overseeing private contractors—close to 90 percent of the Department of Energy's business, for instance, is farmed out...
...They asked me 'Do you have something lined up...
...at the tender age of 30 as a representative from Connecticut, part of the crusading class of 1974...
...He worked in local television for a while, and ran and lost two more races...
...And you can be helpful to them as well, either through your work at Labor now, or as a contact in whatever you end up doing next...
...If you can't deal with every day having people try to destroy you, you shouldn't even think of coming down here...
...The winner will be announced in the October issue...
...Toby Moffet arrived in D.C...
...PrimeTime Live's undercover investigation of cervical cancer screening labs reveals how poor training of technicians, outdated equipment, and a salary system that rewards speed above accuracy contribute to the high error rate that cost Lewis and many others their lives...
...But thanks to some helpful program managers in the Pentagon, several of the operational tests meant to determine whether the missile would work were rigged...
...You settle in, the kids are in school, you buy a house...
...New arrivals quickly learn that they have an excellent reason to be nice to just everyone...
...Omestad warns that the stakes are far greater when it comes to Kim Jong II, the new dictator of North Korea...
...What happened...
...But in general there's surprisingly little nastiness here...
...Pulling on one side are polls and abstract numbers presented by crusading non-profiteers you've never met, from places with names like the Center for Science in the Public Interest...
...Hence, the relationship between Congress and agencies is rarely adversarial...
...I have a whole bunch of people who do that," he tells me...
...Clinton quietly let the alcohol industry off the hook way back in September when he decided to drop it from the list of sin tax increases he would seek from Congress...
...We started with four bottles of wine, and I cooked some pasta and these were not big drinkers, but after about three hours I was borrowing wine from my neighbors, they were drinking so much...
...He declined to specify how much he makes, but his predecessor's salary was $217,000 in 1993...
...You want to avoid putting a member in a position where he has to oppose you and I know which members can't allow certain things...
...And what if you're one of the 40 percent of congressmen who come back to lobby the Hill once you leave...
...Because everyone here needs a survival network, the place is suffused with a sense of "We're all in this together...
...NW, Washington, D.C...
...At Wexler, I'd make a phone call to a particular member, directly, maybe, at home let's say, on a critical thing and get some feedback or information that's worth millions of dollars to somebody and they say, 'OK, fine, you can bill us two hours at $300 an hour.' It didn't take long to figure out that I needed to be my own boss and price things the way I wanted to price them...
...here he is posing with his family and Ronald Reagan...
...When I was a congressman, I was an advocate...
...I started getting the guilts about traveling to New York for weekends and I knew that if I stayed in the House, I'd leave feet first...
...This creates an insularity and resistance to change that makes anything that rocks the boat—loud dissent, ideological passion—rare...
...For a sense of how it dims the brightest of reforming spirits, let's follow one man's Washington-style transformation from progressive lawmaker to big-dollar rainmaker...
...His colleagues in Washington as well as his constituents at home liked him...
...In 1991, McGrath was sitting on a runway at LaGuardia Airport trying to get back to D.C...
...If you're a member of the House Education and Labor Committee and you learn that $53 million is being spent on some useless pilot program in Colorado, you face a quandary...
...The truth is, Washington is a nice town filled with nice people being nice to each other...
...That means making contacts, fattening your Rolodex, and attracting allies...
...The agency's most public fiasco came from its assessment that Haiti's president-in-exile, Jean-Bertrand Aris-tide, suffered from a history of mental illness...
...Coffee, tea, juice . . . beer...
...If you have been supportive of a program, you can almost count on the nice man with the money bags showing up and asking you to join the company...
...The lobby has friends throughout Washington and a critical ally in Dan Rostenkowski, former chairman of the committee through which any alcohol tax would have had to pass...
...Sadly, the Clintons were probably right...
...What "works here" is largely prescribed by what allows people to stick around and make money, and for the city's players, sticking around and making money requires a sense of team spirit...
...The next day, Moffet went to talk business with the previous evening's dinner guests...
...And I had a good session with Anne [Wexler, whom Moffet knew from Connecticut politics...
...I came here because I had a young family and I was neglecting them," he says...
...20009...
...Ending that program would embarrass your distinguished colleague...
...But minus rigor and real competition for the contract every few years, private firms naturally tend to cut corners to enhance their bottom line...
...The liquor lobby is one of the richest, most powerful, and best connected in town, and fighting it could have cost the administration more political capital than it could spare...
...Phil Gramm, whom no one has ever accused of being too nice, is fond of saying that he is doing the "Lord's work in the Devil's city...
...In the wake of the decision, a local newspaper ran an editorial praising his reason for retiring and calling McGrath "Father of the Year...
...When the Fox pilot was dropped, I was out of money and still paying off debts from the '86 campaign in a Connecticut economy that was going down the tubes fast...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...If, for instance, you're from Wisconsin, a big milk-producing state, it behooves you to angle for a spot on the Agriculture Committee and then hob nob the agency's top officials...
...to them his niceness proved his failure of assimilation...
...Their sources, it turns out, were Aristide's opponents in the military who now rule in his absence...
...This also explains how they stay...
...But once you're here, it's not easy to go home...
...He was the one standing next to you as Reagan signed the '86 tax bill into law, the two of you grinning like fishermen beside a bluefish in a photograph seen around the country...
...Spend a little time with Raymond McGrath and you wish you could see him at events, too...
...He handily won reelection three times...
...This explains why so few leave...
...worse, it would put him in a less than sympathetic mood when you next go looking for allies for programs and bills that you think are worthwhile...
...That's a town where I know the most people, I know how to do things, I know how to solve problems.'" Fortunately for Moffet, many of his old Washington friends were now working "downtown," D.C.'s influence- and access-peddling zone, and they were happy to meet him again...
...In a sense you want to have good working relations...
...Once you appreciate how this leads to inane policy, missiles that don't work, and an insider culture that bends even those who came to town promising change, you get a sense of why Washington's niceness should be better known...
...But the style of the advocate doesn't work here...
...Blowing the whistle could save Americans everywhere some money, but it runs the risk of infuriating Rep...
...he asks me with a grin early one morning in July...
...And Les AuCoin, he was trying to decide what he was going to do, and he said, 'I don't know how you do what you do, I just can't imagine doing it,' you know, lobbying members...
...Last February, a USA Today poll found that 85 percent favor higher taxes on alcohol to finance health reform, two percent more than said the same thing about tobacco...
...And then, camaraderie getting the better of the chairman's spelling, "Your a pal...
...That's what happened in the case of the Maverick missile, an anti-tank weapon purchased by the Air Force in the early eighties...
...The town's nice ethos isn't well known to Beltway outsiders because the business of survival networking is almost always private...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...One of its power centers, St...
...Today, he runs what is genteelly called the "consulting" arm of a well-established law firm in town, a blue chip mouthful called Wunder, Diefenderfer, Cannon & Thelen...
...for his child's third birthday party when a plane on another runway landed and blew a tire, shutting down the airport for eight hours...
...Even Congress is tame compared to the acrimony in, say, Japan's Diet, where legislators often punch each other in the face...
...And in a crisis that threatens war, flawed profiles could lead to deadly miscalculation...
...Dan Ros-tenkowski was indicted on no less 17 charges of defrauding the public one sensed that Post columnist David Broder, Washington's grandfatherly voice of reason, meant it when he said he was sorry to see Rosty deposed...
...There's nothing inherently wrong with what is often little more than simple human decency, but in Congress, as elsewhere in town, simple decency can have dire consequences...
...Often he doesn't need to say anything to former colleagues, let alone supplicate before them...
...A Toast to the Chairman Watching Clinton juke and Dole jibe on TV, it may look as though wrangling and partisan disputes are all that ail the cause of health reform...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Sitting in the conference room at Wunder, Diefenderfer, his tie loosened and a cup of coffee in one hand, he candidly explained how a man who started off as a Nader Raider and anti-Washington politician has ended up earning six figures in the cradle of the capital's establishment...
...Research assistance for this article provided by Liz Greenspan, Celeste Katz, and Rachel Van Dongen...
...A Town Full of Mavericks For most legislators, the process of learning to get along with everybody begins well before they decide to retire...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in July will close September 15...
...In short, Clinton decided to avoid a fight he felt he would probably lose...
...Pulling the other way is a guy who has been through some battles with you, a war buddy who did you a good turn in the trenches some years ago...
...there he is arm in arm with Tip O'Neill...
...The ex-chairman received thousands in alcohol PAC dollars during his years in office...
...When I told my wife that I wasn't running, she was so happy she said she was going to throw up...
...Politicians get elected to work on behalf of certain constituents, political appointees arrive because they have managed to land a position in the government, and countless aides come to assist these people...
...That way, when the dairy farmers (or their PAC) come to town with a problem, you know exactly who can solve it...
...Far more often, it's nice people doing well...
...Where else would a swell guy like former chief of staff Mack McLarty—nicknamed "the Nice"—get demoted and then have to read in The New Yorker that "some used his moniker in a denigrating way...
...And why not...
...A fat and legitimate target for Bill and Hillary, wouldn't you say...
...Another dinner party demonstrates why...
...The missile failed real tests, mistaking, at one point, a franks and beans cookout in the desert for a tank...
...It will just spin around and you'll never win...
...The twist is that nearly everyone in the paintings is drinking a beer...
...And why would you want to leave...
...Those officials will be happy to oblige...
...A former Nader protege, Moffet's politics as a congressman were unabashedly progressive, especially on energy issues...
...For many bureaucrats, however, playing the heavy isn't easy because often the people they're supposed to lean on work alongside them, become their friends, and could offer them a job someday...
...The 13th point closed with a revealing suggestion: "Another way to express thanks is with a monetary donation at election time...
...Add to all this polling results which show that Americans think taxing the alcohol industry is a great way to help pay for universal health coverage...
...He was most attracted to a job that gave him the chance to run something...
...If virtually everyone you come across is a would-be ally, then you will be averse to criticizing anyone too loudly, and you'll steer away from reforms that might rattle present or future friends...
...But there can be great harm when that leads to a bias for the contractor for the wrong reasons, like wanting to feather your nest...
...These jobs are not lifelong positions...
...Together, you'll create a sort of mutual survival network...
...But you have to have been there and know that history to know where the opposition is going to come...
...Then I had a two-hour session with Howard Paster [who soon would become Clinton's congressional liaison and then leave after a year for a top job at Hill & Knowl-ton], Howard has always been a pal from the days he was lobbying for the United Auto Workers and I was on the Hill, and he was just fabulous, telling me, 'Here's what you have to do.' Then I had a good session with Frank [Mankiewicz, whom Moffet knew through his work on behalf of Ted Kennedy's bid for president in 1980] and he had me sit with Gary Hummel who was over there who I knew from Tip O'Neill days...
...If you're a legislator, there are also plenty of reasons to be pleasant to your colleagues...
...Sawyer's on-target investigation shows that a woman's first line of defense is in desperate need of reinforcement...
...Louis, Missouri, headquarters of Anheuser-Busch, is in the home district of House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt...
...McGrath's office is littered with memorabilia from a life in politics, including a photograph of him sharing a tall one with former House pasha Silvio Conte...
...But how do you stay, given that most jobs in Washington last only a few years...
...I know where their sensitivities are, things to avoid," he says...
...In April 1991, he became the president of the Beer Institute...
...And you know the wife and she's lovely too, and the alcohol industry has been awful good to you at campaign time and pretty soon you hear yourself saying, "I'm with you, Chief, but this will be an awful brawl...
...Niceness bedevils the bureaucracy in other ways...
...For legislators, being friendly with top-level bureaucrats is good politics...
...Unfortunately, he relies on the C.I.A.'s psychological profiles, exercises in cocktail-party psychology jigsawed together with incomplete and often dubious information...
...sometimes the bonds of friendship here are very real...
...He didn't have to work on any issues that he found unsavory, and in fact passed on a chance to lobby an energy-related bill about which he and Wexler disagreed...
...Letting the Denver program slide by means keeping up a friendship that, sooner or later, could be extremely valuable...
...But McGrath and Rostenkowski did their share of the work...
...However, such a donation should always be thought of as a thank-you gift, never as buying some future political favor...
...today they are roughly one-half of 1 percent...
...When handling a volatile foreign leader, how does the president know how to walk the tightrope between toughness and provocation...
...Frankly, my views have been shaped as I've gone along...
...Moreover, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, between 25 to 40 percent of bed space in hospitals is given over to alcohol-related disorders, at a price to the public and our health care system of something close to $100 billion dollars each year...
...Couldn't all this chumminess and respect just lend the nation's capital an air of pleasant, smalltown warmth...
...The implication was not only that McLarty needed to be a far tougher gatekeeper for the president, but that around these parts, nice people don't fit in...
...He found work in a place that few familiar with his political career would ever have imagined: a Washington lobbying outfit...
...Less than six months after the missile cleared its last production hurdle, three of the top Pentagon officials responsible for the program left to join Hughes Aircraft Company, the company that built it...
...His value to his present employers, he says, is simply that he knows the players on the Ways and Means Committee...
...And so, apparently, does everyone else...
...These are the people who are most likely to help you find another job or offer you one outright...
...As it turns out, no...
...He's so damn nice you want to buy him a beer...
...But while politicians look for an answer for the issue's thorniest question—how to pay for universal coverage—Washington's niceness has helped to keep an obvious source of revenue off the table...
...By any reasonable measure, taxes on booze are at a historic low, about 37 percent in real dollars of what they were after the last major tax increase, which, by the way, occurred in 1951...
...He keeps his hand in progressive issues by working with a group fighting to keep Disney's America theme park out of Virginia, and has several pro bono clients...
...Not that all rela-"1 tionships in Washington are fake...
...Well, That's my client.' He said, 'I didn't even know you were involved.' I said, 'That's right...
...You can't get into this issue," one of his aides told The Washington Post at the time...
...To summarize, here's an industry that is undertaxed, that costs the health care system a ton of money, and that a huge majority of us would like to see pitch in for health care reform...
...Put yourself in the chairman's place...
...Of course, Washington was thought to be a swamp of villains and miscreants even before Harry Truman famously declared that "If you want a friend in Washington, bring a dog," and that reputation endures today...
...The trick is making it seem as though the desperately needed rewards of PAC money and donations are not in any way connected to any particular actions for any'particular monied interest...
...He's an open, friendly, family-oriented guy—Father of the Year, for heaven's sake—unpretentious and plain spoken...
...With his fine gray hair, silver-rimmed glasses, and unaffected charm, he looks so much like a politician that he could be an actor playing one...
...But his water-carrying for the alcohol industry also doubled nicely as a good deed for someone who is both an old ally and a very nice guyMeet Raymond McGrath...
...Let's start with the lobbyists...
...I figured no matter how hard I tried, I wasn't going to be a good father if I stayed in the House," says McGrath...
...If there had been an honest evaluation of the Maverick, it would never have been built...
...Even the often less conciliatory first lady felt that a liquor tax increase was simply not possible...
...Let us talk to you.' I soon had half a dozen very good offers...
...Even though many of them are tenured, Congress can cut their budget, a move which could either end promotion pay raises or compel the agency to fire staffers...
...Now 50 years old, Moffet's thatch of dark hair is gray on the sides, but he is still bounding with energy and he retains the warm, easy manner that made him popular even among Republicans in Connecticut...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stories) on our political system...
...Any one of them could enhance your prestige by signing onto a bill you've drafted, or allowing you to join his committee, or providing help in winning a leadership role you want...
...He's a better provider these days as well...
...I never talk to you about it because you're doing the right thing and I'm working with your staff and they know that I know you.'" Moffet's journey from firebrand to the ranks of the well-heeled is not unusual, though his voyage covered more ideological ground than most...
...It's become an accepted career path in the Pentagon," says Jim Burton, a retired Air Force colonel and author of The Pentagon Wars...
...What gets lost in all this fellow-feeling is a role so slighted by lawmakers that few people even realize it's part of their job—namely, overseeing the bureaucracy...
...Tentermer from that Denver district where the program runs, a program Tentermer proudly unveiled at a news conference last year...
...I've seen the former chairmen occasionally on a social basis, and obviously I see the other guys at events...
...During the student loan debate, the Consumer Bank Association handed out a 13-point pamphlet with the dos and don'ts of lobbying, a primer for a group of bankers who'd come to town to chat with their legislators...
...If you're a political appointee at say, the Department of Labor, you'll want be friendly to anyone you meet professional ly: union leaders, interest groups, lobbyists, and your fellow bureaucrats...
...How does he earn that money...
...Performing tough oversight is a way to lose friends fast...
...The Devil's city...
...Granted, presidents—especially the current president—tend to get roughed up in Washington, and occasionally a lawmaker will go after a colleague in the House or Senate...
...The industry's own survival network is vast and pours dollars into congressional coffers far and wide...
...Back then, alcohol taxes were 5 percent of all federal revenues...
...It's a lesson Moffet learned later than most...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...Money is part of the explanation...
...So I said to my wife, 'We're out of here.' She said, 'What do you mean?' I said 'We're moving to Washington...
...Prominent among those who made contributions as individuals, naturally, was Mr...
...Well, it could, but since it's the seat of the federal government, the sense of mutual enterprise here can have important implications for politics as well...
...Then the Fox network offered him the leading role in a pilot show which featured Moffet surprising local heroes and community activists with checks for up to $25,000...
...Of course, Raymond McGrath and his pal Rostenkowski didn't single-handedly kill the alcohol sin tax...
...A lot of people were gracious enough to call hours after the announcement," says McGrath...
...In the waltz between them and a lawmaker, they can never seem to be leading the dance, offering what might look like a fee for service...
...Nonetheless, thousands of Mavericks were built at a cost of $123,000 per copy...
...But he also realizes that his approach as a legislator would be a liability now...
...then, how it can lead to wasted millions in taxpayer dollars...
...Consequently, those who are forced to leave—either because they lost an election or weren't reappointed—are usually plotting to come back...
...His new job allows him to spend a lot more time with his wife and three children, one of whom has Attention Deficit Disorder...
...In 1992, the pilot was shelved and Moffet was unemployed...
...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award For May 1994 Is Presented to Diane Sawyer and Robbie Gordon, PrimeTime Live For June 1994 Is Presented to Thomas Omestad, Foreign Affairs Helene Lewis had four pap smears taken in eight years to check for cervical cancer, and each one came back normal...
...But he was affable, hard-working, and continued his predecessors' emphasis on strong constituent service...
...This fear has the effect of forcing bureaucrats to be receptive to lobbyists and businessmen, any of whom could go to a legislator and register a complaint...
...Shortly after the '92 elections, Moffet invited a table full of buddies who'd just lost campaigns, including Tom Downey, Pete Kostemeyer, and Les AuCoin, who had just been edged out by Bob Packwood...
...Rostenkowski provided some valuable help to the booze industry when he helped steer Clinton away from any alcohol taxes by telling him that if one type of alcohol were taxed, all three—beer, wine, and spirits—would have to be taxed, a neat shorthand for "I'm on your side, Chief, but this will be an awful brawl...
...We fought the utility companies, and that was the right thing to do...
...A Republican elected from New York's 5th district in 1980, he spent 12 years in the House of Representatives, the last eight of which he was a member of the House Ways and Means Committee...
...I have a much better appreciation for how markets work and market-driven forces as opposed to regulatory...
...His only real complaint, in fact, was the money—chiefly that he wasn't paid enough of it...
...For his first year on the job, he was barred from going to the Hill by new ethics laws, but even though it's now perfectly legal for him to lobby his former colleagues face to face in their offices, he says he rarely visits the House...
...Most of Washington's players come to town for a specific job...
...You know this British Columbia timber issue?' He said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'The one where we have all the environmental groups on our side?' He said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'You're the champion, right...
...They shot six episodes, but Fox never aired any of them...
...Lobbyists, nice folks that they are, happily do their part...
...Located in a sleek high-rise a quick car ride from the Capitol, the Institute's offices feature a collection of Norman Rockwell-style paintings of idealized scenes—dad meeting the boyfriend, twentysomethings idling by the pool, a beach cookout...
...If an alcohol tax hike is clearly overdue and obviously popular with Americans, why would Rosty side with the alcohol industry...
...He's also a jewel of a guy, just trying to earn a living, just trying to spend more time with his kids...
...Raymond McGrath is tall, distinguished-looking, and 52 years old...
...But for the military's overseers there is a temptation...
...Washington's Nice Problem It may look nasty from the outside, but what really ails the nation's capital is too many nice people who don't want to leave BY DAVID SEGAL ¦¦ IJ^Hiis is a town that is full of evil people," I says Alan Greenspan in Bob Wood-I ward's The Agenda...
...McGrath mulled over a few options and thought about starting his own firm, but decided against it because, as he says, he "didn't want to steal clients from my friends...
...Anyway, they said 'Come over and be a consultant.'" He signed up at the Wexler Group...
...He was one of the higher-profile "Watergate babies," a group of young legislators who had won their seats by running against the Beltway in the wake of Richard Nixon's resignation...
...No, the city's power strata—legislators, journalists, administration officials—are all in fairly high spirits...
...The problem is that the boat is not always heading in the right direction, and often it is simply operating in a way that enriches those on board rather than makes sense for the rest of us...
...When PrimeTime Live sent one lab a batch of pre-ex-amined slides for inspection, the lab misidentified 70 percent of cancerous slides as normal...
...And on the wall, above a slew of Chamber of Commerce plaques, is a framed shot of McGrath hugging the not-yet-indicted Dan Rostenkowski...
...The private companies that make weapons are constantly looking for a few good men—Pentagon officials who know "the Building" and can help business with the right contacts in the military...
...Those who parlay their public service expertise and contacts into private practice see their salaries soar...
...Of course, once you've been here a while, you have an expertise and a set of contacts that make you marketable, and the Washington market can be very lucrative...
...You develop a cozy relationship because they're sitting right next to you," says Carolyn Ban, a former manager at the Department of Personnel and Management...
...it's hard to go back to the farm after you've seen the Department of Agriculture...
...One pal, Vickie Reggie—now Vickie Kennedy, Teddy's wife—threw a dinner party on Moffet's behalf and invited a Who's Who of the city's best-connected Democrat lobbyists...
...You've got to network for dear life—and fast...
...Small wonder that when Rostenkowski was indicted on fraud charges, the donors to his defense fund read like the catering list at the world drinking Olympics: Anheuser-Busch, E&J Gallo Winery, Wine Merchants Ltd., Wine and Spirit Wholesalers...
...When Rep...
...Since a ton of money is needed to run for office, congressmen are survival networking for dollars almost immediately...
...And anyway, you like Tentermer...
...First, how survival networking can lead to bad policy...
...Moffet soon left for Wunder, Diefenderfer and today his major clients include the government of Angola, Coopers & Lybrand, and the big six accounting firms...
...This problem is most acute where the money in the private sector is most abundant: the Department of Defense...
Vol. 26 • January 1994 • No. 9
