At the time I was litigating the alcohol beverage industry in 1981-82, I had heard of a woman who formed an organization called MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers in 1980. I called Candy Lightner to ask her to team up with my organization, Victims Of Alcohol International, Inc. her answer was a flat…NO!  She had her own agenda going for her. Lightner had lost her thirteen old daughter, Cari to a drunk driver.

    During that short period of time, 1980 to 1983, Anheuser-Busch pledged and gave to MADD $180,000. Part of that money went to enlist a new board member for MADD. The new board member was Robert M. Garrick, of Pasadena who was valued because of his White-House connections. MADD then moved its national headquarters to Dallas, Texas. Anheuser-Busch pledged to pay for the production of two television commercials which were estimated to cost $100,000. In addition, the beer maker pledged $50,000 cash to help MADD develop more chapters throughout the nation and $5,000 for a table at the San Francisco fund-raiser. Beyond that, Anheuser-Busch agreed to pay for the services of a San Francisco “head hunting” firm that recently found MADD’s new executive director. That cost was estimated at $20,000 to $25,000. The new executive director was Philip Roos, a psychologist in suburban Dallas who was national executive director of the Association for Retarded Citizens. MADD would pay Roos $75,000 a year. Records show that MADD received $485,762 in contributions during its first full year of existence.

    The new director Garrick, who was active in Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign, became deputy counsel to the president in 1981. He left the White House later that year and returned to his public relations firm in Pasadena, where he became involved in Republican Pete Wilson’s successful campaign for the U.S. Senate. Garrick said he had represented Anheuser-Busch for 30 years and saw no problem with serving as a MADD director.

From "God's Linchpin", Page 153