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...committee investigators' best source was Herbert Kalmbach, once Nixon's personal lawyer and a political fund raiser. He told them that the cooperatives, led by Associated Milk Producers, Inc., offered $250,000 in 1969 to the Nixon campaign in hopes of obtaining higher price supports, a speech by Nixon at a forthcoming milk producers' convention and an audience at the White House for milk cooperative leaders. According to the draft, Kalmbach "reported to [then White House Chief of Staff] H.R. Haldeman the pending contribution and the three goals, and Haldeman authorized him to accept the contribution." Haldeman...
...their political contribution 'potential.' " Fifteen minutes later, Nixon met at the White House with dairy cooperative executives and told them that he was "very grateful" for their support. The following day, the President instructed the Agriculture Department to raise support levels. But before the decision was announced, Kalmbach met with milk-cooperative executives to confirm the link between the pledge of $2 million and the price hike...
...Dean tells how the President's personal attorney Herbert Kalmbach raised money to pay the attorneys' fees for the Watergate defendants, Nixon speculates that the "cover of a Cuban committee" must have been used. (Some of the burglars were Cuban exiles...
Tattered Bills. The Watergate committee investigators are inclined to believe that Rebozo was right the first time, though in his appearance before the committee, he denied that he ever told Kalmbach he gave the money away; Kalmbach must have "misunderstood," he testified. But other evidence unearthed by the investigators indicates that the cash had been disbursed, and Rebozo was looking for a fast, safe way to replace it in April...
...Though Kalmbach proved to be no help, Rebozo also went to William E. Griffin, counsel for the Hudson Valley (N.Y.) National Bank and a close associate of Robert Abplanalp, another millionaire friend of the President's. The investigators learned that Abplanalp met in Washington last May with Richard Danner, the Hughes executive who originally gave the $100,000 to Rebozo. Later in the month, Rebozo and Danner met with the President at Camp David. The investigators believe that Abplanalp provided the cash to replace the missing money in the safe-deposit box. Then last June, more than three years...