It was there that he met legendary steel veteran Thomas Graham, with whom he left to save beleaguered Armco.

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Danner, 59, an easy-mannered former electrical engineer from Ohio, started his lobbying career in the early '70s for Armco steel company.

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As Kimberly Strassel notes in her May 17 Wall Street Journal column, when Bain invested in buying and upgrading the steel maker, its owner, Armco, was considering shutting it down.

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