Walker established the ACCF in order to provide credibility to his advocacy for big business.
After Connally left the race, Walker joined the campaign of Ronald Reagan.
According to Sidney Blumenthal, his other clients, such as the Business Roundtable, were relieved to know he was close to Reagan, whom they regarded as potentially dangerous.
[2] Walker and the ACCF won large cuts in corporate taxes in Reagan's 1981 economics legislation.
[3] His ACCF colleague, Mark Bloomfield, said of Walker, "Charly was the classic caricature of the cigar-smoking super-lobbyist with a limo."