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MILK FUND The committee also continued its investigation of whether the milk producers' contributions of at least $527,500 to President Nixon's re-election campaign helped buy a 1971 increase in federal price supports for milk (TIME, Dec...
...nine years earlier by Nixon's wealthy friend Elmer Bobst, then the chairman of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company.) Tricia lent her father $20,000 for purchase of the Florida property, and Nixon promised to repay her that amount plus 40% of whatever profits he might make. On Dec. 28, 1972, Nixon sold the property for $150,000, making a profit of almost 300% on his investment. Tricia received $65,000 as her share, and paid capital gains taxes of $11,617. The White House statement was aimed at refuting published reports that Tricia had avoided paying her share...
Since becoming President, Nixon has concentrated his capital on his properties in Florida and California. On Dec...
...click on a winning choice. In a move that drew praise even from his harshest critics, President Nixon ordered a sweeping reorganization of the Government's energy policymaking system and installed a tough-minded former investment banker, Deputy Treasury Secretary William Simon, as his newest energy czar (TIME, Dec...
Kissinger's trip is aimed at reducing the chances of those hostilities and at making sure that Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Israel show up at the peace conference scheduled to convene on Dec. 18 at Geneva. There they will be joined by the U.S., the Soviet Union and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Although Egypt late last week declared that it would attend the Geneva conference, it at first publicly hinted that it might not unless Israel first withdraws some of its troops from the west bank of the Suez Canal. Israel however has refused to budge until Egypt...