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EHRLICHMAN. He will admit giving Kalmbach "perfunctory" approval to raise money for the defendants but say that he did so partly because "Mitchell had some interest in making sure that the defendants were well defended." Ehrlichman will express suspicions, similar to those of Mitchell and Dean, that Colson had a role in pushing the Watergate wiretapping plans. But Ehrlichman will claim that he personally took no part in cover-up activities and kept urging that anyone involved "make a clean breast of it." He was told that Mitchell "effectively threw blocks" at any such disclosure. Ehrlichman will also corroborate Dean...
...appearances to the contrary, however, Herbert W. Kalmbach in those halcyon days was neither a political boss, a godfather of the Mafia nor the local bookie. He was President Nixon's personal lawyer and one of the best connections between California and power centers in Washington...
Though "recently he has kind of been disowned" by the White House, as one Nixon aide puts it, Kalmbach, 52, has long been one of Nixon's most loyal supporters. "He thinks Nixon is the Lord himself," says Don Kennedy, president of an insurance company Kalmbach worked for in 1961. Kalmbach first worked for Nixon in the 1960 presidential campaign and was a fund raiser in the disastrous gubernatorial race two years later. "He was constantly at Nixon's side, puffed up with authority and having complete say how and when the money was to be spent," says...
Offered a job as Under Secretary of Commerce, Kalmbach decided instead to return to Newport Beach and the law practice he had set up in 1967. It was a profitable move. Starting off with only four attorneys, Kalmbach, who had little reputation as a lawyer, built his firm into one of California's, and perhaps the nation's, most successful. He rapidly acquired an impressive roster of clients: the Atlantic Richfield Company; United Air Lines; the Travelers Insurance Company; the Flying Tiger Corporation; Dart Industries Inc.; the Marriott Corporation; MCA Inc., which produces perhaps 40% of prime-time...
...Kalmbach's law firm, which now has 26 lawyers and penthouse offices in Los Angeles as well as an office at Newport Beach, is famous for its ability to get quick, and often favorable, rulings from Government agencies. "I've been to meetings with Kalmbach attorneys in which an IRS agent would be there to explain things," marvels one client. For Client Richard Nixon, Kalmbach was a personal tax consultant, and he arranged the still mysterious, highly favorable deal by which the President acquired his San Clemente estate...