Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special counsel, James St. Clair. His aim has been to narrow the grounds for impeachment by maintaining to the committee that it must establish a direct link between Nixon and a criminal offense: in this case, the payment of hush money to Convicted Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt on March 21, 1973. Accordingly, he wanted the witnesses to declare that Nixon had not specifically ordered the payment of the $75,000 to Hunt. But no witness remembered the timing of the payment in such a way as to absolve Nixon of involvement in the incident...
...committee began to call witnesses. Two of them were former officials of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, Paul O'Brien and Frederick C. LaRue, who were connected with the $75,000 that was paid from Nixon campaign funds to E. Howard Hunt, one of the convicted Watergate burglars. O'Brien testified that Hunt had demanded $120,000 for legal fees and support for his family while he was away in prison. Hunt then alluded, O'Brien testified, to the "seamy things" that he had done for the White House as a member...
...third key area of focus in Baker's report is the relationship of Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt with the CIA. A longtime employee who retired from the agency in 1970, Hunt exploited his CIA connections to assist him in his Watergate activities. At White House request, CIA psychiatrists helped put together a profile of Daniel Ellsberg, who had released the Pentagon papers; other agents used CIA labs to develop photos taken by Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy when they were casing the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist...
...Hunt had still another CIA connection. Upon retiring from the agency, he went to work for Robert R. Mullen & Co., a Washington public relations firm that once served as a CIA cover in addition to its regular commercial jobs. Working with Mullen President Robert Bennett, Hunt conducted an investigation of Senator Edward Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick, persuaded Lobbyist Dita Beard to issue a statement intended to clear the Nixon Administration of any impropriety in its dealing with ITT, and estimated the cost of a wiretap of Author Clifford Irving on behalf of Howard Hughes. CIA officials denied...
...someone to watch over their eye-opening cup of bad news. Before the start of the fall season, NBC must make the big decision-who will be the man to fill the late Frank McGee's spot on Today? Explains one network insider about the Great Host Hunt: "They're trying to make up their minds whether to go with somebody controversial, somebody offbeat or Mr. Nice...