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Personal Clout. But Kalmbach also provided some distinctly profitable services to the President. He not only handled the complicated purchase of Nixon's estate in San Clemente but had the clout on his own to get the Government to make thousands of dollars worth of improvements on the property that were charged off to "security," including a $388.78 exhaust fan for the fireplace. It was Frank DeMarco, Kalmbach's partner, who helped arrange Nixon's controversial gift to the nation of his vice-presidential papers, a donation that the President claimed as a $482,000 deduction...
More important, Kalmbach steadily emerged as the White House's financial Mr. Fix-It, the man who could be counted on, without quibbling, to collect or pay out money as problems arose. In addition to the charge of obtaining contributions and secretly and illegally funneling them to candidates, which he pleaded guilty to last week, Kalmbach was one of the bagmen who picked up campaign contributions from milk producers just before the Administration upped milk-price supports in 1971. He paid Donald Segretti some $45,000 in salary and expenses to carry out his campaign of political dirty tricks...
...Kalmbach remained the President's lawyer until his pleas of guilty last week. Only then did he resign from the firm that had soared so high so fast since the election of 1968. He also quit as chairman and a director of the Bank of Newport, which he founded two years ago. Kalmbach now faces the likelihood that he will be disbarred, but even if he never practiced again, he would likely remain a wealthy man: he has sizable real estate holdings-mainly apartment houses and office buildings-in California and Hawaii...
Though money is no problem for Kalmbach, social prestige is. "Nixon's man" had risen with sleek assurance in the moneyed society of Newport Beach, just an hour's drive by Cadillac south of Los Angeles. He was a power in the Lincoln Club of Orange County, an organization of wealthy and conservative G.O.P. contributors. He hobnobbed with the likes of John ("Duke") Wayne and Donald Nixon, the President's brother, both neighbors in Newport...
...past half year, Kalmbach has all but withdrawn from the cocktail circuit and the lush golf courses. He has denned up with his attractive wife-a former Rose Bowl princess-and one of their three children in their $100,000 house overlooking the lean white yachts tugging at anchor in the harbor. Last fall Kalmbach made the mistake of appearing at the 25th anniversary dinner of the Balboa Bay Club. As a director he was included in the testimonials, but when he stood to acknowledge his name, there was a pause of embarrassed silence followed by a timid patter...