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...That three times when he was Army Secretary, Callaway flew by Air Force executive jet to another family-owned resort at Pine Mountain, Ga. Callaway says he paid for the trips...
...That in February of 1974, Callaway arranged to fly top Pentagon officials, including Deputy Defense Secretary William Clements, by military helicopter from the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs to Crested Butte for skiing. Callaway says Clements paid for the trip...
Woven through the allegations is a too-familiar pattern of the Washington buddy system that Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter have condemned all along the campaign trail. The official to whom Callaway took his plea for a reversal of the Forest Service ruling was J. Phil Campbell, a close friend and fellow Georgian; indeed Callaway had recommended him as Under Secretary of Agriculture. Campbell admits that he urged reconsideration of the Crested Butte expansion. The reversal followed. By strange coincidence, the key decision maker in the Forest Service's reversal of its earlier decision was Jimmy Wilkins...
Last week Callaway said that he had not put pressure on anybody. He admitted arranging meetings in 1973 between the CAB and his partner and brother-in-law, Businessman Ralph O. Walton Jr. Callaway pointed out that he was not in Government at the time. But as the coordinator of Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign in the Deep South, Callaway was the sort whom many a Government bureaucrat would likely heed...
...Callaway's associates in Georgia-even some of his political enemies-question his judgment but not his honesty. Says a top Atlanta businessman who knows Callaway well: "He's not the kind to piddle around in this kind of stuff...