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...decision was right, despite the outcry. But there were strong signs last week that, partly as a result of the pardon, Congress will not meekly accede to Nixon's request for some $850,000 in transition funds, as endorsed by Ford and urged by a compliant General Services Administration. GSA Administrator Arthur F. Sampson, a Nixon appointee who had never objected to any of the lavish Government-financed improvements to Nixon's San Clemente and Key Biscayne properties...
...February 1974, the GSA selected C.E. Maguire Inc., a Waltham engineering firm, to prepare the report. The government gave Maguire 120 days to study environmental and socio-economic effects of the library, as well as to consider alternate sites for the complex in Watertown, Charlestown and Waltham...
...prepared for the organized community opposition to the project that had formed since its proposal in 1964. Community leaders--including representatives of the Harvard Square Development Task Force, Neighborhood Ten, and three city councilors--held a press conference questioning the firm's integrity and calling upon the GSA to review its contract...
...GSA, at first refusing to discuss Maguire's selection with the community, launched an internal investigation of the firm. The review, according to GSA Administrator Arthur F. Sampson, concluded that the charges against Maguire were "unfounded...
Subsequent release of the actual report on the firm, however, showed the investigation had discovered "inconsistencies and inadequacies" in Maguire's past report. The GSA investigator had found no direct evidence that Maguire had altered its report under political pressure but conceded that there was circumstantial evidence for the accusations...