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While pushing the cover-up prosecution, Jaworski's busy staff also netted another top Nixon associate in a somewhat peripheral phase of the Watergate scandal?but one that also has serious implications for Nixon. Kalmbach, the President's personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to two charges: 1) violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act by helping create and run a secret committee in 1970 for which he collected nearly $4 million for congressional candidates but had no treasurer or chairman and failed to file reports as required by law; 2) soliciting and accepting a $100,000 political contribution in 1970 from...
Probably the most talkative so far has been Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney and a major campaign fund raiser. Also flirting with a deal was John Ehrlichman, formerly one of the President's closest aides. Says a White House colleague of Ehrlichman's: "John knows that if he fights for months in the court and then draws a heavy sentence, he just sinks further into debt and postpones the day when he can again support his family...
Nixon faced the nation Monday night--only a few hours after his personal lawyer, Herbert W. Kalmbach, pleaded guilty to two charges stemming from political fundraising--and began his press conference by explaining that the energy crisis was no longer a crisis, but only a problem...
...accidentally erase the tapes. If so, Nixon, with good cause, may feel his subordinates failed him. This is just the last in a long string of "failures" which serve the president, the reductio ad absurdum of the conduct of Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Magruder, Stans, LaRue, Liddy, Colson, Mardian, Kalmbach...
...Kalmbach asked for a donation of $100,000, Spater continued, and "I was told that contributions of this amount would be regarded as in a special class." American's ex-chairman likened any thought of refusing to cooperate to the terra incognita on ancient mariners' charts, which is filled "with all sorts of fierce-looking creatures." It was not, he explained, so much a matter of what favors a hefty gift might buy as a fear of what might happen to his federally regulated firm if it did not cough up handsomely. Eventually Spater arranged to issue...