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...Nixon's evening speech shortly after he first arrived at Westchester airport that afternoon. I knew what he was going to say, so I put excerpts from his speech in my story. I didn't know that several hundred demonstrators had infiltrated the Nassau County Coliseum, that they would disrupt Nixon's speech and that they would be forcibly ejected from the auditorium. So that important event didn't make the morning paper. Too bad, but that's the way it goes in the news business...
Magruder, a Santa Monica, Calif., business executive who coordinated Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign in the Los Angeles area, told the Justice Department that he thought the intelligence money was to be used to get information about radicals and antiwar protesters who might try to disrupt the Republican National Convention. He denied authorizing any funds for illegal purposes. A certain conspiratorial mood among the White House staff is illustrated by one of Magruder's former assignments there. He moved from Haldeman's staff to Klein's, TIME has learned, to watch Klein for Haldeman...
Still very much in place in his windowless west-wing office is Dwight Chapin, deputy assistant to the President, who with White House Staff Assistant Gordon Strachan had hired Donald H. Segretti to recruit agents to help "disrupt" the primary campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates. TIME reported earlier (Oct. 23) that Segretti had received from Herbert Kalmbach more than $35,000 for his services. Kalmbach in turn got the money from the secret fund in Stans' safe. This information was based on statements made by both Segretti and Kalmbach to FBI agents...
Segretti divulged to Justice Department officials only the bare outlines of his mission. He said that he was hired, among other things, to disrupt the primary campaigns of Democratic candidates. On one occasion, he said, he went to California to harass candidates with telephone calls and feed them false tipoffs. He also arranged to have embarrassing questions put to the Democrats at their public appearances. The Department of Justice learned that in 1971 Segretti asked a former Army officer friend to infiltrate the George Wallace campaign and work as an informant...
...assistant attorney general of Tennessee, Alex B. Shipley, has said that Segretti approached him last year and tried to hire him to disrupt Democratic campaigners. "It wasn't represented as a strong-arm operation," said Shipley. "He stressed what fun we could have." As an example of the trouble he might cause, Shipley was told that he could call the manager of a coliseum where a Democratic rally was to be held. He could represent himself as the candidate's field manager and report some threats from hippies or other troublemakers, asking that the rally be moved...