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...bill, which finally passed the House in April, came up last week before Senator Abraham Ribicoff's Governmental Affairs Committee???and was promptly consigned to either imminent death or limbo by the lobbyists. Leading the assault against it were such diverse persuaders as William Timmons, the former Capitol Hill liaison man for the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Freelancers Maurice Rosenblatt and William Bonsib, and Diane Rennert of the Association of American Publishers. In a multiple assault, they first threw their weight behind a much milder version of the bill, which was substituted for Ribicoff's stiff version. Despite telephone calls...
...vote states (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Illinois and California). Victory in only a few of them, on top of his Southern base, could give him the presidency. He depended heavily on the get-out-the-vote effectiveness of labor unions, big-city Democratic organizations and the Democratic National Committee???the type of Establishment groups he had kept at a distance in winning his party's nomination. But he needs them...
This openness made his confirmation hearings before the House Judiciary Committee???which lasted a grueling six days and went into every aspect of his life?a cakewalk. At least 350 FBI agents, 70 in Grand Rapids alone, fanned out to investigate his background, but Ford instructed anybody who asked: "Tell them the truth?give them everything." Everything did not amount to very much. He had been careless about disclosing the names of campaign contributors in his last election. A discredited Washington lobbyist had accused him of accepting money for favors. By the end of the televised hearings, Ford emerged with...
...Representative Jack Flynt: "I can understand, after having read them, why he didn't want to release the transcripts." Added Representative John Brademas of Indiana: "There was an extraordinary moral obtuseness on the part of these people. It seems to me? subject to the work of ?the Judiciary Committee???that there is a clear possibility of criminality by the President. The hush money is the symbol...
According to aides, he reasoned that the move would end the spiraling demands of the committee???as well as those of Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski?for more tapes. Explained one presidential adviser: "We felt a growing concern that it was becoming a test of manhood between the two branches. We decided this might be a way to defuse that feeling." In addition, aides reported, the President saw disclosure as a way of repairing his damaged credibility. Said St. Clair: "People were getting more and more imbued