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...Your article about a measure for public financing of presidential campaigns [Dec. 17] sponsored by Senators Kennedy and Mondale portrays Senator James Allen as a villain because of his efforts to scuttle this bill-a bill opposed even by Senators Ervin and Weicker. You can't seem to recognize a piece of hurriedly prepared, half-baked legislation sneakily attached to an important bill that was assured of President Nixon's signature. I believe that Senator Allen deserves a lot of credit for his efforts...
...Parade Before the Ervin Committee...
...wiretapping in advance, never approved clemency for the defendants, was unaware of payoffs to them and played no part in the conspiracy to conceal. Then, dramatically, a means to break the testimonial impasse was revealed: Alexander Butterfield, a former White House aide (now head of the F.A.A.), told the Ervin committee that most of the President's White House meetings and telephone calls had been secretly recorded. The Senate committee and Prosecutor Cox promptly issued subpoenas for key tapes...
...White House also decided last week that it would not deliver material that had been subpoenaed by Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee. The material includes 486 tapes and hundreds of documents that possibly bear on a variety of scandals. Just how the White House planned to deal with the subpoenas remained to be worked out, but Operation Candor obviously was hurt again. Late in the week, the White House did recover some ground by announcing that it would be releasing documents-although no summaries of tapes-dealing with the milk fund and the ITT case, the relatively favorable...
...years, during which its volume increased nearly 150%. Last July, he returned to his native North Carolina because "there are things in life which are more important than money"; he plans to run in the upcoming Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by Sam Ervin...