European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine Washington Power broken and Doc Lect a Fob nent poetic in. He removed the outspoken and controversial Midge cos Lanja 11 Public Liaison and appointed Wixler to the s56, Job then a Deputy undersecretary or Commerce Wexler had campaigned for Carter and impressed his aides with her political Iru Tincu and contacts. At first she was regarded As a necessary evil because they needed a woman someone with Washington experience and  says a Washington lawyer familiar with the White House operation. They did s think icy needed it. And boy were they  one White House aide a welter understands the Washington Way of laying thank  she Doe Litell things thai mean a lot. If you lobby for a Bill you la gel a letter from the president thinking you. A major food manufacturer who lobbied for the Panama canal �01 a pair of presidential cuff links. Afterwards he told me Anne unde Tandi How the game ii played " Strauss who Calls a tiler a special hunk of Gal says he consults with her at least once a Day. She had no training for that he say. She came out of the political Gutter. Political people come from the political streets. Those of us who manage to stay near the top have innate instincts. She Hai  Strauss knows first hand about her taste for Fine wine i invited her and Joe Over to help celebrate my birthday. And i opened a bottle of Chapleau ladle Rothschild i had been saving. After a finished it i walked into the Kitchen and Anne snuck Down to my wins cellar and opened two , not everyone gushes about her. She can be really rude says an associate. Del fall in Art it to emf Llort of we had 25 Anne Well Gas the equal rights amendment would be passed.1 Carter s Contact with the by Ann Blackman associated Pressw Hen Anne Wexler was running a local political Campaign years ago in connect Cut she explained to her Little boy thai she brought papers Home at night so she could keep up with her work. Well if you can t keep up the 6-year-old responded Why Don t they put you in a slower group today As president Carter s link to special interest groups she still brings papers Home. For Anne Wixler one time Antiwar and Eugene Macii Alliy activist is Learned to do her  we had 25 Anns we ulcers the equal rights Amend mint would be passed says Robert Strauss chairman of the car scr Mondale Campaign. She s a breath of fresh  says Esther Pelc son. The Carter consumer expert who has worked for three Percsi she hns great political instincts and the biggest Rolo Dex in Washington says her assistant Michael Chanin. Wailer on Wax tar i m a result oriented  Anns it Xref in so moot of two grow men Etc Panther to two my if of Cartter Appo Latt Doffer now at a height of u unorthodox to us Pray Dpi us. I Pincus my of whenever i Wlk through the White tier notion building support for Carter s policies with interest groups in business labor and ran.T?1" affairs to mate sure people know what the Salt ii trealy the Panama canal a Gas Bill or a balanced Bud gel meant to them there Are few people in Washington with her contacts and savvy and toughness says smart Eizenstat Carter s Domestic affairs adviser. Shell pick out legislation like the Windfall profits la. Then Well have scores of East room briefings where Shell bring in people from states or districts that Are crucial in getting it passed. 1 give a lecture about the substance of the Issue and then the president greets them. And they go away  it was two years ago it � much publicized meet ing at Camp David that Carter decided his staff a did a a backup that he needed More Contact with " she s their Liaison to business and state and local officials groups Carter got to know Are important. She draws on resources they never thought of " wednesday september 3. 1190 Liaison Frank Moore said you did a bad Job " another Codon get a a of one told a Friend Locking or a better Job to Bun the employer Call her for recommendation. Then when he called Anne said her Friend was a disaster. Maybe the Friend was t the greatest person for the Job Bat if she did t have anything Good to Lay. She should t have volunteered to recommend her the col league says. I think she likes Power the feeling she can make or break  David Cohen president of common cause where Sculer once worked on a voting rights project says her talents Are in organizing not in articulating an overview of government or deciding what direction a society should go in. For a person who came out of the Antiwar movement she seems less troubled by the inevitable compromises you have to make As a Public official. Her sir englis Deal with the technical skills and Leas , the values Yuu bring to  insiders say that while Weilor is not As close to Carter As press Secretary Jody Powell or Campaign strategist Hamilton Jordan she s one of a handful of aides to whom the president listens regularly. She has carved out a Niche for herself says Robert d. Barnett. Who docs Legal work for the Carter Mondale re election Campaign and is a Friend and neighbor of Wexler. She s their Liaison to business and stale and local officials groups Carter got to know Arem Portal. She draws on resources they never thought  her main personal resource is husband Jot duffty chairman of tse National endowment for the Hunan Otlet in which be Arica tort than $110 null Una in programs for the Iris. Both were involved in the Antiwar movement in the late 1960s and met when they were working for presiden tial candidate Eugene Mccarthy. She later managed Duffey s unsuccessful Senate Campaign. In 1974, they both divorced their spouses ran off to Haiti and  they got married they did t have anything but each other says Bob Strauss. I offered her a Job with a democratic telethon for wolking around Money. 1 paid her Sloo a week which was All we had. She proved that she s  today u of of a half Doriea husband wife nuns work big for the Carter  it is and Dat Luj Bate a command salary of Over $100,000. They live in an expensive High Rue apartment in North West Washington where they Reserve sundays for swim Ming cooking and wandering around the capital. Each is amused by the Oiher Uyi a longtime Friend. Joe u quiet enough to lit Back and tease her when the t lying herself up in knots. He s aggressive in a quiet Tow key Way. She s aggressive in a More up front Way. The Only thing she i soft on is  the stars and stripes Page 13