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...before the Ervin committee I came from former White House Aide I Alexander P. Butterfield, there were other bits and pieces of fresh insight into the workings of Watergate as the Senators quickened their pace, working toward an Aug. 3 recess. The. witnesses and their key testimony HERBERT W. KALMBACH, 51, the President's personal attorney and longtime political fund raiser, described how he raised $220,000 for the seven Watergate defendants last year (see chart following page). He undertook the job at the request of John Dean, Kalmbach testified, who "made a very strong point that absolute secrecy...
Most of the $220,000, Kalmbach told the committee, was provided by Nixon re-election officials from various campaign contributions: $75,000 came from Maurice H. Stans, the former Secretary of Commerce and chairman of the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President; and $70,000 came from Frederick C. LaRue, an aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and formerly an official at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Another $75,000 Kalmbach got directly from Thomas V. Jones, president and board chairman of the Northrop Corp., a Los Angeles-based aerospace company. (Jones claimed that...
Insisting that he had first believed the money was to be legitimately used for the defendants' legal fees and family support, Kalmbach admitted that he became increasingly uneasy about the "propriety of this assignment." Finally, in July 1972, he sought an appointment with Ehrlichman at the White House, and told him: "I am looking right into your eyes ... and it is absolutely necessary, John, that you tell me that John Dean has the authority [to order the collection of funds for the defendants], that it is a proper assignment, and that I'm to go forward...
...Kalmbach was temporarily mollified, but in August or September he told Dean that he would raise no more money. Nonetheless, he was called to Washington last Jan. 19 to attend a meeting in John Mitchell's office. When he realized that the purpose was to induce him to raise more money for the defendants, Kalmbach testified, he left the meeting. In hindsight, he said, he regarded the work as "an improper, illegal act," and implied that he felt Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean and Mitchell had betrayed...
...second day of testimony, Kalmbach described an earlier escapade on the Administration's behalf. He said that in 1970, under orders from Haldeman's aide Lawrence M. Higby, he collected $400,000 in funds left over from the 1968 campaign and delivered it to men he had never met before Kalmbach said he eventually came to believe that the funds were used in an unsuccessful effort to defeat George C. Wallace in the 1970 Democratic primary campaign for Governor of Alabama; such a defeat might have kept Wallace from taking votes away from