Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of the controversial tape was played in the courtroom. The quality was surprisingly poor, with much of the conversation between Nixon and Ehrlichman indistinguishable. Nixon was heard to remark: "In the '68 campaign the press was violently pro-Humphrey." After Haldeman entered, the hum began. It was a steady sound that did not waver in its medium-high pitch. But after 5½ minutes the hum suddenly became softer, and some sporadic clicks could be heard for 13 minutes...
...guerrilla-warfare operation against Democrats. Segretti has testified that he was hired by Chapin, whom he had known since both attended the University of Southern California, to play malicious tricks on the opposition, including distributing a letter, printed on stationery stolen from Senator Edmund Muskie, that accused Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson of sexual misconduct...
...campaign donations in 1968. At the time of the indictment, union officials did not even bother to refute the charges. Rather, they claimed that the Government's action was political, as most of the campaign money had gone to Democrats, including President Nixon's 1968 opponent, Hubert Humphrey...
...Virginia. I don't know how much it cost him; he's a tightfisted old son of a bitch; so he didn't pay any more than he had to. But he bought West Virginia, and that's how his boy won the primary over Humphrey...
...revealed that yet another Administration cover-up may well have been attempted in that process. Stans and other committee representatives returned to their original corporate contacts and asked them to submit lists of individual donors to cover their gifts. Such disguises are not unusual; a prime backer of Hubert Humphrey, New York Financier John Loeb, was fined earlier this year for funneling a large donation through several employees. Ashland received a letter from Committee Counsel Kenneth Parkinson simply stating that Atkins and his wife would be named as the source of the $100,000 given by Ashland. He assumed that...