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...cooperative's largesse was nonpartisan. In 1968 AMPI backed Democratic Nominee Hubert H. Humphrey with $91,691. When Nixon was elected, it made its first contribution to the new President. In what AMPI former General Manager Harold Nelson later candidly described as a "peace" offering, the cooperative in 1969 gave $100,000 to fund raisers for Nixon, ostensibly looking toward his 1972 re-election campaign. In its bid for more sympathy, AMPI pledged on Dec. 16, 1970, to contribute an additional $2 million for Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. The cooperative delivered a first payment...
...AMPI concocted another scheme to get around federal election laws. It gave bonuses and advances totaling about $80,000 to employees and outside agents and told them to donate the money to political campaigns, chiefly that of Democratic Presidential Nominee Hubert Humphrey. On hearing of the Wright report, Humphrey acknowledged the gifts but said that he thought they had been legal...
...JOHN A. HUBERT East Hartford, Conn...
...Nixon unique in affixing a price tag to his papers and taking a tax deduction. Platoons of onetime Government officials have turned over papers to historical societies and university libraries. Senator Hubert Humphrey donated more than 2,700 boxes of materials to the Minnesota Historical Society, and took tax deductions of $199,153 for those papers dealing with his vice presidency. Former California Governor Pat Brown got a $105,000 tax write-off for giving his papers to the University of California. Former U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith gave some papers to the Kennedy Library, and took what...
...White House refused to say how long Agnew would continue to enjoy the style of living to which he has become accustomed. But Nixon's aides were talking privately of extending the coverage to six months from his resignation on Oct. 10-the same period that Hubert Humphrey was given similar privileges by Richard Nixon after losing the 1968 election...