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Article: Lord of the lies; how Hill and Knowlton's Robert Gray pulls Washington's strings. (Washington, D.C. public relations consultant)
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- September 1, 1992
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This article is adapted from The Power House: Robert Keith Gray and the Selling of Access and Influence in Washington, recently published by St. Martin 's Press.
In the old days, when Robert Gray was a staffer in the Eisenhower White House and had visitors in his office, he'd have his secretary interrupt him from time to time with fake telephone calls from the President. Back then, the occasional deception helped the Nebraska native wire his White House career. Three decades later, the tricks were the same but the stakes a fittie higher. This time around, deception helped Bob Gray set the American agenda.
"A reporter would walk in, and he would instruct ...