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More recently, Jenkins' name cropped up again. According to an affidavit by Reynolds, Jenkins badgered him last year for a cash kickback on a second $100,000 policy that Reynolds sold to Johnson after Johnson became Vice President. Jenkins told him, Reynolds said, that the money should be given to Bobby Baker, who "would bring...
Reynolds told the committee that during negotiations for Johnson's policy, Johnson Aide Walter Jenkins "suggested" that Reynolds buy the time, and Reynolds did so "because it was expected of me." Jenkins denied the allegation in a sworn affidavit to the committee...
...answer to all this, White House Aide Jenkins swore in an affidavit that he had no knowledge "of any arrangement by which Reynolds purchased time on the TV station." Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said that the President had assumed the stereo to be a gift from "a longtime employee," not Reynolds. And President Johnson, in the course of an impromptu press conference, brought up the matter himself. Said he: "The Baker family gave us a stereo set. We used it for a period, and we had exchanged gifts before. He was an employee of the public and had no business...
...family long ago accepted his death, but the legal loose ends still remained to be cleared up. At last, in a Westchester, N.Y., surrogate's court, an affidavit was filed by his father to have Michael Rockefeller declared legally deceased. Lost two years ago off the southern New Guinea coast when his catamaran capsized, Mike at 23 left an estate of $660,000 in mixed investments. In the absence of a will, the money will go to his parents, Nelson Rockefeller and First Wife Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller...
...American embassy, Oswald announced that he meant to become a Soviet citizen, swore out an affidavit that said: "I affirm that my allegiance is to the Soviet Socialist Republic." The Marine Corps got news of Oswald's action, convened a special board and gave Oswald an "undesirable" discharge from the Marine Reserve. Enraged, Oswald wrote a letter to John Connally, who had just stepped down as Secretary of the Navy to run for Governor of Texas. Said the letter, which was found among Oswald's Marine records last weekend...