was an American political lobbyist and public policy advisor. She founded Wexler Walker Public Policy Associates. The daughter of Leon R. Levy, a prominent architect who designed the New York Coliseum. Her first involvement in politics was ringing doorbells for Harry S. Truman as a history major at Skidmore College. She married ophthalmologist Richard Wexler two weeks after her 1951 graduation. As a housewife in Westport, Connecticut, she described herself as having "all the Jewish princess stuff — a lovely home, a full-time maid, lots of vacations" before she started becoming involved in politics. Her first campaign was in the unsuccessful race by John Fitzgerald against the pro-Vietnam war incumbent Democrat Democrat Donald J. Irwin. She organized the Connecticut effort for Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign, and served on the rules committee at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where she was the primary author of the committee's minority report, whose recommendations on reforms in choosing delegates were later accepted. She managed the 1970 United States Senate campaign in Connecticut for Democrat Joseph Duffey, a Democrat who came in second to Republican Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., with incumbent Thomas J. Dodd coming in third. Bill Clinton, then a student at Yale Law School, and Hillary Clinton were recruited among the campaign's volunteer workers, with Hillary later crediting Wexler during her 2000 Presidential bid for providing her first political job. After her divorce, she married Duffey in September 1974, who would later head the National Endowment for the Humanities and the United States Information Agency. At Common Cause, starting in 1971, she led a short-lived voting rights effort. During the 1972 presidential election season, she led the campaign of Democrat Edmund Muskie and switched over the Democratic nominee George McGovern's voter registration campaign during the election. Rolling Stone magazine hired Wexler as an associate publisher in 1973, where her duties managing political reporting included overseeing the notoriously unconventional Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who would sometimes stay at the Duffey/Wexler residence while in Washington, D.C. During the 1976 Presidential Election, Wexler worked for the Jimmy Carter campaign and served on his transition team after Carter's win over Gerald Ford, where she was responsible for screening candidates for top-level positions. She recommended the little-known Juanita M. Kreps, who was nominated as United States Secretary of Commerce and became the first woman to hold the position. Wexler became undersecretary in charge of regional directors in the Department of Commerce. One of the top lobbyists in the United States[3], Wexler was named to serve as the Special Assistant for Public Outreach within the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs as an assistant to President Carter, where she succeeded Midge Costanza. In that role, she set up meetings with the President with hundreds of business and opinion leaders, working to get their support for Carter's agenda as part of an effort she described as intended to "create lobbyists" through "by educating people on the substance of the issues". Assisted by her efforts, Carter was able to secure passage of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties that would lead to the end of U.S. control over the Panama Canal, as well as deregulation of the airlines, tricking industry and newly-found natural gas. She established a lobbying firm that was to become Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates the day after the Carter Administration ended. The firms clients included General Motors and the Government of Australia, which honored her as an Officer of the Order of Australia for her meritorious service. Her firm was acquired by Hill & Knowlton in 1990, within which it operated independently. She died of Breast Cancer that she had been battling since 1981
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was an American political lobbyist and public policy advisor. She founded Wexler Walker Public Policy Associates. The daughter of Leon R. Levy, a prominent architect who designed the New York Coliseum. Her first involvement in politics was ringing doorbells for Harry S. Truman as a history major at Skidmore College. She married ophthalmologist Richard Wexler two weeks after her 1951 graduation. As a housewife in Westport, Connecticut, she described herself as having "all the Jewish princess stuff — a lovely home, a full-time maid, lots of vacations" before she started becoming involved in politics. Her first campaign was in the unsuccessful race by John Fitzgerald against the pro-Vietnam war incumbent Democrat Democrat Donald J. Irwin. She organized the Connecticut effort for Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign, and served on the rules committee at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where she was the primary author of the committee's minority report, whose recommendations on reforms in choosing delegates were later accepted. She managed the 1970 United States Senate campaign in Connecticut for Democrat Joseph Duffey, a Democrat who came in second to Republican Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., with incumbent Thomas J. Dodd coming in third. Bill Clinton, then a student at Yale Law School, and Hillary Clinton were recruited among the campaign's volunteer workers, with Hillary later crediting Wexler during her 2000 Presidential bid for providing her first political job. After her divorce, she married Duffey in September 1974, who would later head the National Endowment for the Humanities and the United States Information Agency. At Common Cause, starting in 1971, she led a short-lived voting rights effort. During the 1972 presidential election season, she led the campaign of Democrat Edmund Muskie and switched over the Democratic nominee George McGovern's voter registration campaign during the election. Rolling Stone magazine hired Wexler as an associate publisher in 1973, where her duties managing political reporting included overseeing the notoriously unconventional Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who would sometimes stay at the Duffey/Wexler residence while in Washington, D.C. During the 1976 Presidential Election, Wexler worked for the Jimmy Carter campaign and served on his transition team after Carter's win over Gerald Ford, where she was responsible for screening candidates for top-level positions. She recommended the little-known Juanita M. Kreps, who was nominated as United States Secretary of Commerce and became the first woman to hold the position. Wexler became undersecretary in charge of regional directors in the Department of Commerce. One of the top lobbyists in the United States[3], Wexler was named to serve as the Special Assistant for Public Outreach within the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs as an assistant to President Carter, where she succeeded Midge Costanza. In that role, she set up meetings with the President with hundreds of business and opinion leaders, working to get their support for Carter's agenda as part of an effort she described as intended to "create lobbyists" through "by educating people on the substance of the issues". Assisted by her efforts, Carter was able to secure passage of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties that would lead to the end of U.S. control over the Panama Canal, as well as deregulation of the airlines, tricking industry and newly-found natural gas. She established a lobbying firm that was to become Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates the day after the Carter Administration ended. The firms clients included General Motors and the Government of Australia, which honored her as an Officer of the Order of Australia for her meritorious service. Her firm was acquired by Hill & Knowlton in 1990, within which it operated independently. She died of Breast Cancer that she had been battling since 1981
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