Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee staff noted that the two candidates also received illegal corporate contributions that had been previously disclosed. The 3M Co. gave $1,000 to each, and Gulf Oil donated $15,000 to Mills. Humphrey received an illegal $50,000 donation from Manhattan Investment Banker John L. Loeb. In comparison, Nixon is known to have received about $750,000 in illegal donations from corporations...
...staff report accused the Humphrey campaign of other violations...
...Three Humphrey backers-Minnesota Grain Millionaire Dwayne O. Andreas, his daughter and a friend-formed a limited partnership called Jackson & Co. and pumped $276,000 into it. The "predominant portion" of the money came from the sale of shares in a firm headed by Andreas. All of the funds then went to the Humphrey campaign, exceeding the legal limit of $5,000 for individual contributions that was in effect until April 7, 1972. Andreas also made a $25,000 donation to the Nixon campaign-and the cash turned up in the Miami bank account of Convicted Watergate Burglar Bernard...
...bank account, which was maintained by the law firm of Campaign Manager Jack Chestnut, received a "purported personal loan" of $100,000 from Paul Thatcher, treasurer of an organization called "Backers for Humphrey." At the time, federal law also limited campaign loans...
Both Chestnut and Joseph Johnson, an official of the Mills campaign, refused to testify under oath before the committee, invoking the Fifth Amendment against selfincrimination. Mills declared that the draft report was "distorted" and leaked "to smear me." Humphrey said the report on his campaign was "filled with innuendoes and inaccuracies" and pointed out that it had not yet been considered by the seven Senators who make up the committee. But they could scarcely dispute the staffs conclusion: "It is not the Republican Party which is in need of remedy but rather the process by which we nominate and elect...