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...this. Kalmbach: "I am looking right into your eyes ... and it is absolutely necessary, John, that you tell me that John Dean has the authority, that it is a proper assignment and that I'm to go forward on it." Ehrlichman's reply, according to Kalmbach: "Herb, John Dean does have the authority, it is a proper assignment, and you are to go forward...
...into your eyes ... and it is absolutely necessary, John, that you tell me that John Dean has the authority [to order the collection of funds for the defendants], that it is a proper assignment, and that I'm to go forward on it." According to Kalmbach, Ehrlichman replied: "Herb, John Dean does have the authority, it is a proper assignment, and you are to go forward...
...from the starting blocks, Williams usually lags behind, frantically trying to rev up the spidery legs on his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. Instead of pounding machine-like down the track, he jitterbugs unevenly, his shoulders performing a dance of their own. "One must understand track," marvels Fellow Sprinter Herb Washington, "to understand how one can make as many mistakes as Steve Williams...
...Kalmbach family moved to Pasadena from Michigan (his father had died) when Herb was a young teenager. Frank Clement, who became his best schoolboy friend, remembers the newcomer as "a free and loose kid, an absolute nut . . . with the guts of a burglar." Of Germanic origins, Kalmbach was a fleeting, childish admirer of Hitler before World War II broke out, writing some stories about the Reich in the school paper. Remarkably, he was one of four finalists in a design competition for an airplane de-icer that the U.S. needed, even though, recalls Clement, he was only...
...President passed, there in view across the room was Herb Klein. He looked like he had slept in his suit, or maybe hadn't slept at all in those frantic days. But his face had the same kindly look, and there was a smile and a lot of pride and warmth beneath the surface. The thought occurred to us then, and again last week, that here was one of the few men around Nixon who gave more than he took...