The Office of Public Liaison?

[zippygaloo]

What exactly is the Office of Public Liaison (http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/opl/)? How long has this been around?

[dhrith]

"The Nixon White House was the first to formalize a set of staff responsibilities to work with
interest groups that had been unsystematically scattered among staff members during the
presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt through Lyndon B. Johnson. The title “public liaison,”
however, officially emerged in the Ford administration. Of course, interest groups pressed their
issues onto presidents even earlier in American history, but several factors conspired to encourage
the creation of a White House staff for interest group liaison."

Copy paste from somewhere.



My first guess was about one liberal week.