Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modest means, others of considerable personal wealth-said they will make full public disclosure of all campaign receipts and expenditures. Sixteen said they will limit cash donations to $100 or less. They will, of course, take larger donations made by check, but twelve reported they will accept no gift larger than $3,000, which is the limit that the Senate imposed both this year and last in a bill that awaits passage in the House...
When he decided to fire Archibald Cox, almost nothing made Richard Nixon angrier than the special prosecutor's investigation of the $100,000 Nixon campaign gift from Howard Hughes to Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo, the President's close friend. That matter, Nixon firmly declared, was off limits. But the matter did not die with the departure of Cox. It was pursued by a dogged, four-man team of investigators from the Senate Watergate committee under the direction of Terry Lenzner, 34, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York City and a onetime member of the Berrigan brothers...
...milk producers instructed Jacobsen to turn the money over to Connally, who would then distribute it to deserving congressional candidates. In his testimony to the grand jury, Jacobsen said that he offered it to Connally, but his fellow Texan refused to take it. Much like the $100,000 campaign gift from Howard Hughes to Bebe Rebozo, the cash was reputedly placed by Jacobsen in a vault in a bank-an Austin bank that happened to be controlled by Jacobsen. There it sat, unwanted and unused, he testified, from mid-1971 until November 1973, when the FBI examined it. Connally told...
Mitchell's most stringent denial came on Sears' charge that the former Attorney General had agreed to help quash SEC subpoenas issued to Vesco and four key Vesco aides. Sears testified he told Mitchell that Vesco was threatening to expose the gift, and that Mitchell said he would go to White House Counsel John Dean to try to get the subpoenas delayed until after the election. Dean testified that he did indeed respond to Mitchell's request by asking Casey to hold up the subpoenas, but that Casey refused. For his part, Mitchell maintained...
...illustrate the charisma that made Cesar Chavez a liberal hero and his United Farm Workers of America a power in the grape and vegetable fields of the Southwest. Today, another side of Chavez's personality is becoming painfully apparent: his talents as a union administrator scarcely match his gift for inspirational leadership. Partly as a result, his prediction has a hollow ring; the U.F.W.A. is fighting now to stay alive. Membership, which totaled 50,000 in California alone in 1971, is down to 10,000. Faced with the certainty that still more growers will defect to the rival International...