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Once again Richard Nixon failed to break free of Watergate. With the release of two lengthy white papers on his dealings with milk producers and ITT, White House aides declared that the President's largely unsuccessful Operation Candor was over. Nixon, said a White House spokesman, will now turn to "dealing with the problems and issues that he feels are good for the country." Yet there is no way to simply turn the key on Watergate. Despite the fact that Congress was in recess and the President still in seclusion in California (see following stories), last week three fresh...
...ITT CASE. The President's paper on his intervention in antitrust suits against ITT was somewhat more persuasive. It claimed that his only direct involvement took place on April 19, 1971, while the corporation's pledge of $200,000 to support the 1972 Republican National Convention was not made until June of 1971. The paper confirmed that Nixon had called Richard Kleindienst, then Deputy Attorney General, and ordered him to forgo an appeal on one of the suits against ITT. Such a move was sought by the corporation. The paper did not, however, note Nixon's blunt...
...scandal ballooned well beyond a political burglary and its coverup, wide-ranging allegations against Nixon himself became part of the sordid affair. They included contentions that Nixon had: 1) intervened in an antitrust action against ITT in return for political contributions; 2) raised milk support prices and reduced dairy imports for similar considerations...
...planned to deal with the subpoenas remained to be worked out, but Operation Candor obviously was hurt again. Late in the week, the White House did recover some ground by announcing that it would be releasing documents-although no summaries of tapes-dealing with the milk fund and the ITT case, the relatively favorable antitrust settlement that was granted to the conglomerate at a time when it was pledging to contribute up to $200,000 to the 1972 Republican Convention...
Watergate will certainly not die down in 1974. Starting in January, three grand juries, which are considering evidence presented by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, are expected to issue indictments in the scandals of the milk producers' contributions to the Nixon campaign, the handling of the ITT antitrust case and the work of the White House plumbers. Egil Krogh, boss of the plumbers, has promised to tell all that he knows after he is sentenced in January-and he knows plenty. Former Cabinet Members John Mitchell and Maurice Stans are scheduled to go on trial Jan. 9 on charges stemming...