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Nofziger's lawyers did not deny that on April 8, 1982, he wrote to Edwin Meese, then Counsellor to the President, urging that Wedtech get the $32 million Army contract. They conceded that Nofziger talked to National Security Council aides on Sept. 24, 1982, about the Fairchild planes and wrote to a Meese deputy on Aug. 20 of that year about the seaman jobs. But these overtures did not violate the Ethics Act, they argued, because the law prohibits lobbying only on matters of "direct and substantial interest" to the contacted agencies...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese told it last week, just "ten words" are the source of the "cascade of misinformation, false headlines, half-truths, innuendo and misunderstanding" about whether he ignored an associate's proposal to bribe Israeli officials. The words, he said, are part of a long document sent to him in 1985 by his former California attorney, E. Robert Wallach, concerning a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline. In a statement to the press, Meese declared that he cannot recall having read the words at the time. But they do not, he said, mention any "bribes or payoffs" to guarantee that...
Other White House insiders also suffer from Deaver's tributes. He describes Attorney General Edwin Meese as a man who would "as a matter of loyalty or conviction, sit there and deny something he knew to be true." Vice President George Bush gets high marks for calling all over the U.S. to provide a fresh joke for the President's daily briefing...
Senior Correspondents: Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer...
Nofziger was convicted of appealing to then-presidential counselor Edwin Meese III in an April 8, 1982, memo for help getting Wedtech Corp. a $32 million no-bid Army contract...