Word: honorariums
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That moment of truth has come at last for the Reagan Administration. Richard Allen last week abruptly took administrative leave from his post as National Security Adviser. The Justice Department absolved him of illegal behavior in his handling (or mishandling) of a $1,000 honorarium from a Japanese magazine that interviewed the First Lady last January. But there were other unanswered questions about Allen's behavior in office, and the betting among Washington insiders was that he would not return to his post. In themselves, Allen's alleged transgressions amounted to a very minor scandal indeed. His impressive title...
Amid this saturation campaign, Allen got a helpful boost from the Justice Department, which declared that no federal crime had been committed when he intercepted and failed to report a $1,000 honorarium that the Japanese magazine Shufu-no-Tomo had tried to give Nancy Reagan. As a result, Attorney General William French Smith officially closed the Justice Department's inquiry into the $1,000 gift and declared that a special prosecutor would not be appointed to dig further...
...trouble began last January, when Allen received an honorarium from a Japanese magazine, Shufu-no-Tomo (Housewives' Friend), for an interview with Nancy Reagan. He helped arrange the interview as a favor to Chizuko Takase, the wife of his longtime Japanese business associate, Tamotsu Takase. But he says the honorarium was unexpected. Allen insists he intended to turn the payment over to the Treasury Department but simply forgot. When $1,000 in cash was discovered in his safe last September, the FBI was called in and an investigation begun...
Other questions continued to defy rebuttal. Mrs. Takase, for example, says that Allen could not have been surprised by the honorarium since he himself had negotiated it with the magazine. Another point of dispute involves two Seiko Quartz digital watches, worth about $135 each, that Mrs. Takase gave Allen. He describes them as personal gifts received before the Inauguration. Reporter Fuyuko Kamisaka, who purchased the watches for Mrs. Takase, said again last week that one watch was given before the swearing-in, while the second was handed over afterward. The timing is crucial, because Administration officials are barred from keeping...
...from Budget Director David Stockman's disparaging comments on Reaganomics in the Atlantic Monthly, it found itself plagued by a scandal of much greater dimensions. The problem seemed at first to be a penny-ante one: National Security Adviser Richard Allen's acceptance of a $1,000 honorarium from a Japanese magazine for an interview with Nancy Reagan. But the White House got caught in a tangle of confusing and inaccurate statements as it tried to explain away the incident. Far more than Stockman's indiscretions, the affair raised serious questions both about White House credibility...