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...said last week that some money had been received for the Program for Modern Greek Studies, and said that the donor had asked him not to disclose his identity or the amount of money involved. Kaiser would neither confirm nor deny the report and Rosovsky was not available for comment...
...first press secretary in Congress. In his memoir of the former President's early political career, Back When It All Began, Arnold tells of a Democratic Congressman who handed over a $1,000 personal check to Nixon's 1950 Senate campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas. The donor: John F. Kennedy. "He explained that the check should be used in Nixon's campaign for Senator," writes Arnold, "and that its intention was partly due to admiration of Nixon and partly due to a preference for [then] Congressman Nixon over Congresswoman Douglas ..." Arnold says that he accepted the gift...
...rules create new dilemmas for candidates, they also put them all on a more even footing. No one can overwhelm the field financially, and none need feel beholden to affluent interests. "It's a helluva lot better psychologically," explains Jackson's finance coordinator, Richard Kline. Donors know they are not going to be "hit for a fortune," he adds, and "there isn't all the tension. Also, you don't have to find some donor's kid a summer job in Washington. We're dealing with a much better class of people...
...five years ago, really can't be installed until the Fogg gets its addition, which Slive says will cost at least $7,000,000. And so he sits in his office, surrounded by a selection of the Fogg's surplus holdings, waiting for the knock of some donor who will liberate them...
...down racial restrictions, we wouldn't accept the money," he says. "We have turned down money already on that regard." Peterson says that often the genealogy of the fund-raised dollar is so tangled that it gets nearly impossible to tell what the original source of the donor's money was. But, he says, the University is careful to reject money from corporations or governments whose enterprises may be illegitimate for fear that by accepting the money the University may appear to be endorsing those activities...