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...were men whom most executives would find it hard to turn down. Three of the companies were approached by the indefatigable Maurice Stans, either while he was still serving as Commerce Secretary or soon after he had resigned to head the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President. Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal attorney, was in touch with two others, including American Airlines, whose chief competitor, United Air Lines, happened to be a Kalmbach client. The sixth was visited by a lower-level fund raiser whose credentials were personally verified by John Mitchell, then serving as Attorney General...
...Public Institute" affair is another odd saga involving surplus funds from Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. Some $500,000 was placed for a time in bank accounts opened in the name of the otherwise nonexistent institute and maintained by Herbert Kalmbach, then the President's personal attorney and the man who handled the purchase of Nixon's California estate. Kalmbach has insisted that "not a dime of campaign money went into San Clemente," and he has agreed to testify at length about how the funds were used. Carmine Bellino, a top investigator for the Senate Watergate committee...
Well, I don't know that. But Herbert Kalmbach [the President's personal lawyer at the time], according to his testimony before the Senate committee, kept an even larger sum of money-left over from the 1968 Presidential campaign-in safe-deposit boxes. If you have any knowledge of mathematics, it makes you wonder, but that is Kalmbach's testimony...
Segretti, who has pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of distributing unauthorized campaign literature, was completely contrite. "My activities were wrong and have no place in the American political system," he said. He was paid nearly $45,000 by Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's attorney, for his and some of his agents' work and expenses, he claimed...
...been abandoned at all by the higher officials who had got him into his trouble. He admitted having paid his former attorney, William Bittman, $156,000 in legal fees, mostly out of funds received from secret sources. Other committee testimony indicated that the funds were raised by Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney. Strangely, none of the Senators, all of whom are lawyers, asked Hunt why Bittman should get such a huge fee in a case in which his client merely pleaded guilty...