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Angry borrowers and legal experts have suggested that federal investigators may have gotten the wrong man when a federal court convicted City Councillor William H. Walsh for his involvement in a scheme to defraud Dime Savings Bank of New York...
...borrowers and legal experts said Dime may actually have perpetrated the fraud, and that Walsh was merely used as the scapegoat...
...that the fund was perfectly legal and was used solely for routine political expenses, but the smell of scandal thickened. At Eisenhower's urging, Nixon went before a TV audience estimated at 58 million with an impassioned defense of his honesty. "Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime we've got is honestly ours," he said. The only personal present he had received was "a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate. Black-and-white spotted. And our little girl -- Tricia, the six-year-old -- named it Checkers. And you know, the kids love that dog." Hundreds...
Walsh says the councillors who are calling for his resignation are acting for political reasons that precede his entanglement with Dime Savings Bank of New York that led to his conviction last month...
Black students began to feel they had to "get off the dime," he says. "[They] felt they were irrelevant sitting around in common rooms...