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Officials of American Airlines, Gulf and Goodyear also testified that they were pressured to provide lists of individual donors. At American Ship Building, the "bonus" recipients and Chairman Steinbrenner concocted a false story to explain to FBI investigators why they were on such a list, according to Company Secretary Robert Bartlome. However, when it became clear that the group would be summoned to repeat the story before a federal grand jury, Bartlome informed his boss that he and the other seven would not perjure themselves before it. At that, recounted Watergate Committee Counsel Sam Dash, Steinbrenner "laid his head...
...firmly took no such position was Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Chairman Russell DeYoung. His company's illegal donation, he testified, "was made solely because we thought the re-election of the President was in the best interest of the country." Republican Senator Lowell Weicker, after getting DeYoung to concede that the company disclosed its contribution only when it was clear that federal investigators were getting close, commented: "I'd say it's a pretty sorry day for Goodyear." Snapped DeYoung: "Not necessarily...
...Ashland Oil Inc. ($100,000); Gulf Oil Corp ($100,000); Braniff Airways Inc. ($40,000); American Airlines ($55,000); Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ($40,000); 3M Co. ($30,000); Phillips Petroleum Co. ($100,000). Employees of an eighth, the American Ship Building Co., testified that they cooperated in donating $26,200 in corporate funds to Nixon's campaign, but the company itself has admitted no wrongdoing...
Only a portion of the list of illegal corporate contributors to Nixon's 1972 campaign has been made public. So far three companies-Goodyear Tire & Rubber, 3M and American Airlines-have been fined for unlawfully dipping into corporate funds for gifts to the President's re-election effort. Cox's investigators claimed that they were looking into possible violations by two dozen other firms and labor unions...
...naturally enough, a hot dog. Anyone who could do the things in goal that he could and have big cow-brown eyes and long black curly hair at the same time--well, hell, he had a head like the Goodyear Blimp...