20 Friday, August 9, 1985
• THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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RELATIVES AND FRIENDS FOR THEIR
CARDS, PRAYERS, VISITS AND GOOD
WISHES DURING JACK'S RECENT SURGERY.
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ING HIS RECOVERY.
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White House Advisor
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than
as
an
overall, the confidence and trust of
encompassing philosophy.
the President prior to his be-
"When you start thinking
coming
President. I don't
about the White House and think there
is anyone alive
the President's staff, you're in the Jewish community
going to have high level
who has that confidence and
people who represent trust
who is prepared to im-
Catholics, blacks, Jews, His- pose on it to counsel and ad-
panics, "women, etc. That
bothers me; to have special vise the President on matters
pleaders. And if they're not of concern to the Jewish
community. We just don't
going to be high level, if have
someone like that."
they're going to be over in
"The
job," said Mark
the old Executive Office
Siegel,
"has
clearly been
Building, then they're just
functionaries. They're not downgraded. I don't know
able to do a significant job on whether they will abolish it
or not. Obviously, if you're
a continuing basis.
"I believe every adminis-
tration ought to decide to
flesh out its senior staff with 4 4 . . . Most of the
as representative a group of
Americans as it can find. people close to the
You've got to watch out not
to fragment American politi- President now have
cal society — American never worked at a
society — any more than it
is. There's something that political or social
bothers me about having all
these _groups that have their level with the
own individual representa- American Jewish
tion at the White House."
Of course, not everyone community and
agrees with Sanders, Gar- don't share its social
ment and Gale. Gordon
Zacks, who with George interests."
Klein, Max Fisher and
Richard Fox form an im-
mensely powerful quadrum- going to have
an office of
virate in the Republican Na-
tional Jewish Coalition, does public liaison, the American
not look upon the liaison job Jewish community is an
as an advisory position; one active political community
there has to be a
that contributes to the and
mechanism to get informa-
policy-making process before
decisions are made. In fact, tion to it and from it.
some of the group's critics Whether it's a person with
charge that the liaison is the the title of Jewish Liaison, or
coalition's creature, and that whether it's someone who
they can do with it what handles many respon-
they will. But Zacks defines sibilities is rather irrelevant,
as long as the function gets
it rather broadly.
accomplished."
The job, he said, is (1) "to
The key to accomlishing a
be an address to which the liaison function that is more
Jewish community in all of meaningful than that of so-
its parts can turn to express cial secretary is access.
its concerns, views, attitudes, Everyone agrees on that
actions and reactions to im- score. Or almost.
pending policy decision or
"The issue," said Julius
de cisions already made b
the Administration," and ( 2 Berman, past chairman of
to provide a vehicle through the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish
which the Administratio n w
Oh r e g a t ti n ei: a ( L
i o njsi;ason")ishas naoct
can attempt to reach out in
to
the Jewish community in a 11 cess.
The issue is whether
of its parts, explain it s his access
brings influence, It
policies , and hope to achiev
support for those policies. e t ina
hek w eo s rla d " the difference in ?
"Furthermore, think tha t
Or, according to Kenneth
to be an advisor to th
President in the true sense e f Bialkin, who is the current
o chairman of the Conference
the word, one has to have
of Presidents of Major
the trust and confidence o f American
Jewish Qrsaniza-
the President," said the Ohio
businessman who has close
ties with Vice President
bush,
"Ad you normally acquire
tions, "the key is the
quality
of the parson, and
the ability
of the
person to fulfill the
c ommunications
lisactiono,
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