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about wilbur mills. mills told me that by the end of this week, he thought he would have something in shape to come down and discuss with you that he could present in the way of a packet that could be of interest. i told him i had read some articles lately that were a little bit disturbing that indicated something that was happening on the medicare and, indeed that, well, you know better than to the attention to those stories, and i said, i agree with you, wilbur. i just wanted to be reassured and he said, you know you cannot read everything you want, and this bill ultimately it has to have the mills stamp on it, and i said well, the president s view is that whenever you want to talk to him, that door is just wide open. he is happy to see you, and he said you just tell him again, as i told you lately last week that just as soon as i am ready to sit down and be able to present think to him that i could spell out that would make some sense and that would represent what ....
he knew each and every member. he knew what they needed. he knew what they didn t want anybody to know. the part that i find just wonder russ is how in a day could he do what he did and how did he come to know so much about each and every member? you nailed it. he had this encyclopedic knowledge of not only the legislative process, but of the people around it. hue better humphrey described lbj as a psychiatrist. he could read you. he knew it moerveated you. he knew what might motivate bob was different from what motivate linda or larry. he got that. and he used it. he exploited it. there s an expression, that people are motivated by either love or fear. and you need to know the right combination in order to get them to act. lbj got that and he used to apply something that was legendarily known in washington as the johns ontreatment or just the treatment. there was no doubt who was applying it. johnson was the master of that and he used a combination of flattery or thr ....
come to israel s aid if survival at risk, but use american leverage to get a two-state solution, and we suggest a powerful proisrael lobby would be a good thing if it s supporting smarter policies that were in america s and israel s interest. we were not saying anything other countrier had not said before. people like george ball, michael, and what we wrote was also exon knowledge inside the beltway. bill clinton said a-pack was, quote, better than anyone else lobbying in this town. politicians as diverse as lee hamilton, chris clollings, barry goldwater, and newt gingrich had written or spoken about the power in the past. even passionate defenders of israel like jeffrey goldberg had written proudly about clout. we provoked an extreme reaction, partly because we provided more depails about the lobby s influence, and partly because we were both rather middle of the road boring figures from well-known universities, partly because we were not left wing, we were not muslim, ....
state do not give to a single candidate to that state. report she washington list of the top 10 recipients in 2012. you can see steny hoyer was num ber four in the house and ben cardin was number four in the senate. neither faced a tight reelection campaign. one would assume some of the thousands of dollars these men got came from the maryland association of concerned citizens. here the house candidates that pac gave to in 2012. hoyer is nowhere to be found. similarly, one searches for ben cardin. instead, the maryland association for concerned citizens gave to candidates as far away as nevada, north dakota, california, but not a single candidate in maryland. a memo leaked reveals that aipac exercises and high degree of coordination over the smaller pacs. instructs a subordinate topressure several to donate specific candidates. the first item is hard to read. has done nothing , louisiana, and missouri race. they have given $500. they had $11,048. try four 1000 bond more ....
university, if you don t have your heart set on working in the u.s. government or if you re retired. [laughter] but it s hard to find people inside the foreign policy establishment who are willing to say what they think on this issue out loud. just look at how chuck hagel and samantha power had to contort themselves during their confirmation hearings, and you see the lob by s continued lob by s continued influence. and please don t forget we re still a long way from a deal with iran or a two-state solution, and the lobby will be working 24/7 to make sure that the united states doesn t do anything israel doesn t want. in short, reports of the lobby s demise have been greatly exaggerated, and given that fact, what do i think we ought to do about it? i ll just give you, i hi, four basic lessons here. lesson number one, it s just politics, stupid. first lesson i would emphasize is this is all about politics. israel lobby is powerful because it has all the features that ma ....