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...most explosive scandals in Washington, but White House lawyers refused to provide information about it on the ground that Cox had no claim to evidence bearing on any campaign except that of 1972. (To invalidate that contention, Cox three weeks ago charged a Democratic donor to Hubert Humphrey's 1968 campaign with making an illegal contribution...
...Stock Exchange. His reputation as an unflinching guardian of the rules governing the complicated wheeling and dealing in his business may temper the thrust of some recent Congressional developments. The House Agricultural Committee is beginning to investigate whether excessive speculation in commodities markets has inflated food prices; and Senators Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern have introduced bills calling for the creation of an independent Commodities Exchange Commission to oversee the trading of futures contracts in much the same way that the Securities & Exchange Commission keeps its eye on the sale of stocks and bonds...
...been lost over the years. Only rarely have the two officials been the best of friends. Fairly typical was Thomas Jefferson's description of his No. 2 man, Aaron Burr: "A crooked gun or other perverted instrument, whose aim or shot you could never be sure of." Or Hubert Humphrey's relations with his No. 1 man, Lyndon Johnson: "The only time I saw Johnson was when he ran out of people to chew on and raised hell with...
Although many of these activities had been reported before, they drew denunciation from the Senators as they were read into the committee's record. They included the fabrication of a letter on Muskie stationery accusing Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson of profligate sexual activity. This had received local newspaper attention during the Florida primary, leading Chapin to laud Segretti for getting $10,000 worth of publicity for $20. Segretti also admitted distributing a phony Humphrey press release falsely claiming that Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, another Democratic candidate, had been in a mental institution...
Buchanan readily termed the Watergate wiretapping "wrong" and "a crime." He found the distribution of a pamphlet during the Florida primary, charging Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson with sexual misconduct, to be an act that "crosses the line" into impropriety; he viewed electronic surveillance in politics as wrong (it is also a crime); and he considered the diversion of campaign contributions given for one candidate to the campaign of another to be illegal...