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Ex senator learns rewards of loyalty to the president
Former Iowa senator Roger W. Jepsen, defeated after a single term, stayed on federal payroll for most of seven months earning about 70 000 dollars a year. He joined the Justice Department to help celebrate the Constitution bicentennial, with aide Don Johnson also hired, illustrating a bipartisan practice of rewarding loyal figures with administration posts.
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Washington
Roger W. Jepsen
Iowa
Jepsen
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Des Moines
Commerce Department
Eugene V. Atkinson
Dick Clark
Carter
Senate
Justice Department
Don Johnson
White House
Terry Eastland
Department
Congress
Commission
Jepsen and
Johnson