Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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P: Somebody is after him about Vesco [Fugitive Financier Robert Vesco]. I first read the story briefly in the [Washington] Post. I read, naturally, the first page and I turned to the [New York] Times to read it. The Times had in the second paragraph that the money had been...
Both Nixon and St. Clair regarded the transcripts as seriously compromising John Dean, the President's chief accuser at the Senate Watergate Committee hearings. Earlier, White House aides had welcomed the not guilty verdicts for Mitchell and Stans as evidence that Dean was no longer credible. Dean was one of...
They include Nixon's possible involvement in the Watergate coverup, his connections with the White House undercover team known as the plumbers and with the dirty-tricks operations of his 1972 re-election campaign committee and charges that he and his staff promised favors in return for campaign contributions...
Making their final summations earlier last week, the lawyers for the defense and prosecution tried to shape the great mass of evidence to their own ends. To defend Stans, Walter Bonner, 48, wore a flamboyant brown and yellow plaid suit, and he brought along a courtroom style to match. Laughing...
The week started out well for the Nixon campaign to head off impeachment: Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and ex-Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans were acquitted of criminal conspiracy and obstructing justice in connection with a $200,000 contribution to Nixon's reelection campaign from financier Robert Vesco.