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...investigator told him that Rebozo had denied that Kalmbach was his attorney. Thus Kalmbach was no longer bound by the lawyer-client privilege. There is some dispute whether Rebozo had said any such thing. "Lenzner twisted the record and twisted statements to leave the completely wrong impression," says Rebozo's Miami attorney, William S. Prates, who also is John Ehrlichman's lawyer. "He was terribly devious in the way he went about it." Whether tricked into his testimony or not, Kalmbach was the most useful witness for the committee since John Dean...
According to Kalmbach's nine-page written statement to the committee, Rebozo met with the President's private attorney on April 30, 1973. Huddled in a quiet corner of the White House, Rebozo asked if they could talk on an attorney-client basis, and Kalmbach agreed. Rebozo then revealed that the President had asked him to speak to Kalmbach about the $100,000 contribution, which, Rebozo said, had come in two installments of $50,000 in 1969 and 1970. That was not news nor was it especially damaging. But the use that Rebozo said that he had made...
...statement, Kalmbach said that he then told Rebozo to hire the best available tax lawyer, return what was left of the contribution, and submit the names of all the people who had received the money together with all records available of how they had used it. Rebozo did not like that idea. "This touches the President and the President's family," he responded, "and I just can't do anything to add to his problems at this time." Kalmbach offered to check out the matter with a friend, Stanley Ebner, general counsel of the Office of Management...
When they met, Kalmbach told Rebozo that Ebner's advice was the same as his. But Rebozo seemed unconcerned and did not press Kalmbach for further help. "I had the feeling that he had made up his mind on what to do before that meeting," Kalmbach said in his statement, "and cut me short when he found that I had not come up with a more acceptable alternative...
Last January in San Clemente, the two discussed the matter for the last time. On this occasion, according to Kalmbach, Rebozo changed his earlier story. It turned out that he had not passed on the $100,000 after all, he told the lawyer. On going to his bank, he discovered all the bills still in a safe-deposit box in their original wrappers. "So it was clear," Rebozo said, "that no part of this money had been used during the several years...