Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emissaries to the Justice Department and scrawled a message to Attorney General Bell?the same note that surfaced last week. Then, so the White House says, the President pushed the matter from his mind. What happened to the note next is unclear. Bell says he never received it. Neither Lee nor any other Vesco representative ever called on Bell...
There the Vesco case rested until earlier this year, when the Securities and Exchange Commission began delving into more of his complicated stock schemes. The probe led to Dorminey and Herring. The SEC also obtained unsigned copies of letters and telephone logs of purported contacts in early 1977 between Lee, Jordan and Carter Adviser Charles Kirbo...
...fabrication and a despicable lie" and said he had never discussed Vesco with anybody. Kirbo branded Anderson's report "an absolute lie by an irresponsible reporter." He insisted that the letters typed by Hobbs were forgeries. At an unusual Sunday press briefing, Jordan disclosed that Hardin had talked Lee out of pursuing the Vesco advance 19 months...
...question remained of whether Hardin, who declined comment, had ever informed law-enforcement agencies about his talk with Lee. On further checking, White House aides said they found that the only person Hardin had reported the offer to was the President. A search of Justice Department files then turned up the message from Carter to Bell. If nothing else, the lost note and the persistent friends of Mr. Vesco were causing the kind of contretemps the White House could do without...
SOCIAL STANDING IN AMERICA: NEW DIMENSIONS OF CLASS by Richard P. Coleman and Lee Rainwater; Basic Books; 353 pages...