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...first revelation about Chapin came when TIME (Oct. 23) reported that he was one of two White House assistants who had hired Los Angeles Attorney Donald H. Segretti to disrupt the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates. Last week Clark MacGregor, director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, declared: "Dwight Chapin just simply had no knowledge of and was not involved...
...allegation about Haldeman drew heated and specific denials. "At no time has Bob had any tie whatever to the funds," MacGregor said. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler accused the Post of "blatant character assassination." The Post story ostensibly was based on a grand jury appearance by Hugh W. Sloan, former treasurer of C.R.P. James Stoner, a lawyer representing Sloan, denied that his client had made any such statement. Further, TIME learned, Sloan had not mentioned Haldeman in his statement to the FBI; presumably Sloan's remarks to the grand jury were no different...
...gonna play that game," he said. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler denied that anyone at the White House had "directed acts of sabotage, spying or espionage" against the Democrats and charged that the stories were based on "hearsay, character assassination, innuendo and guilt by association." Clark MacGregor, Nixon's campaign director, angrily denounced the Post in particular for using "huge scare headlines" and acting "maliciously" and with "hypocrisy" to link the White House to such political espionage. Uncharacteristically, the usually candid MacGregor did not allow newsmen to question him. Senator Robert Dole, the Republican National Chairman, accused McGovern...
...taking the offensive, MacGregor also charged that publications had a "double standard" in not pursuing acts of political sabotage against the Republicans. He claimed that McGovern workers have planted spies within the Nixon campaign and had even done so within Hubert Humphrey's staffs during the Democratic primary campaigns. He cited what he called examples of "proven facts of opposition-incited disruptions of the President's campaign." They included the discovery of a Molotov cocktail at one Nixon headquarters, fire damage at two others and window breaking at Nixon storefront campaign offices in three cities. The Post checked...
...table, California fat cats shelled out even more than the New Yorkers-a cool $ 1.7 million. Bob Hope was on hand with bipartisan gibes: "Jack Benny is a Republican for Mc-Govern-but only until he gets the $1,000" and "McGovern called his own headquarters, and Clark MacGregor answered the phone." Nixon sounded a loftier note. "We will end the war," he said-an echo from the campaign four years ago. His administration would be remembered, he hoped, for "changing the world," for "reducing the possibility for wars in the future." The trip ended as it had begun: under...