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...President Roosevelt, Allen graduated to the role of presidential confidant, brightening the high office with his folksy low comedy. He helped persuade Roosevelt to select Harry Truman as running mate in 1944, then later emerged as a member of Truman's own "Kitchen Cabinet." When his old friend Dwight Eisenhower, whom he had met during World War II, won the presidency in 1952, the affable-and durable -Allen became Ike's frequent golfing partner and companion...
...when it revealed the existence of a network of agents hired to undertake political espionage for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, and named Donald Segretti as one of the operatives. Five days later, the Post (along with TIME) linked Segretti to Presidential Appointments Secretary Dwight Chapin. On Oct. 25, Woodward and Bernstein wrote that Presidential Aide H R. Haldeman had access to a secret campaign kitty used in part to fund political sabotage. Though other publications-principally TIME and the New York Times-kept up a steady rhythm of Watergate beats, Republican spokesmen reserved their harshest...
...congressional and White House sources, against: Robert Reisner, who was Magruder's top assistant on the re-election committee; Dwight Chapin, a former White House aide; and Donald Segretti, a California lawyer who has admitted some attempts to disrupt the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates. Since so much of the secret and unreported money used to finance the espionage came from a safe in the office of Maurice Stans, the former Commerce Secretary who headed the Nixon campaign's fund-raising efforts, he is also considered a possible grand jury target. One Senate investigator insists, however, that "Stans...
...cash. This line of inquiry by the grand jury could also implicate Dwight Chapin, who has admitted arranging the hiring of Segretti, and Gordon Strachan, who also helped recruit the agent provocateur...
...DWIGHT CHAPIN, 32, a former White House aide who, among other things, helped to coordinate the President's daily schedule. Chapin worked as assistant to Haldeman at the J. Walter Thompson office in Los Angeles. He joined the White House staff in 1969 and left after the public disclosure of his involvement with C.R.P.'s "dirty tricks department" but denies that he was forced to resign. He is now director of market planning for United Air Lines...