Word: drafted
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...support of his 1972 reelection campaign. He has insisted that the real reason for the increase was to forestall the Democratic Congress from legislating an even larger boost. But evidence to the contrary continues to accumulate Last week Democratic staffers of the Senate Watergate committee completed a 359-page draft report that was damaging to the President. The investigators concluded that both the White House and the milkmen clearly understood that the cooperatives' pledge of more than $2 million to the Nixon reelection campaign was in return for higher milk prices and other favors...
...cooperatives, led by Associated Milk Producers, Inc., offered $250,000 in 1969 to the Nixon campaign in hopes of obtaining higher price supports, a speech by Nixon at a forthcoming milk producers' convention and an audience at the White House for milk cooperative leaders. According to the draft, Kalmbach "reported to [then White House Chief of Staff] H.R. Haldeman the pending contribution and the three goals, and Haldeman authorized him to accept the contribution." Haldeman has denied to the committee that he knew anything about that particular contribution. The report said that Kalmbach received $100,000 from the cooperatives...
...HURRY. When the North Vietnamese finally responded to the U.S. concessions and produced a draft agreement in Paris on Oct. 8, Szulc claims, Kissinger fairly grabbed at it. He instructed three staffers to write a counterproposal, then went out to a dinner date. The aides finished at 3 a.m. and went off to sleep, leaving the document for Kissinger. He awakened them at 8 a.m., raging that the draft was much too tough. "You don't understand," he said. "I want to meet their position." All through that critical week Kissinger kept up a furious pace. Said one American...
Szulc stops short of concluding that Kissinger deliberately misled Thieu, but does insist that he "grossly overestimated his ability to bring Thieu around." When Kissinger showed him the draft of the peace agreement for the first time in October, Thieu "reacted with undisguised fury." It was the outraged opposition of Thieu (for whom Kissinger developed an active hatred, says Szulc) that led to delays in the signing of the agreement, to Hanoi's second thoughts about U.S. intentions, and to the "Christmas bombings" that finally ended the agony of Viet...
...76ers, who finished with the worst record in the league, lost the coin toss for the first draft choice to the Portland Trailblazers, and to no one's surprise, Portland took the highly sought-after Bill Walton of UCLA. The Trailblazers actually have already signed the Briun kingpin to a five-year contract for more than $2 million...