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...After reading "Milkmen Skimming Off More Cream" [April 8] about the Associated Milk Producers Inc.'s largesse extending over the whole political spectrum, from the campaigns of Richard M. Nixon, Hubert H. Humphrey and Wilbur D. Mills through the printing of the Lyndon Johnson book, I have come to the conclusion that dairymen display forthright honesty in their advertising, as witness the tag line in their television commercial-"Milk Has Something for Everybody...
Drop by drop, evidence has accumulated since last fall that milk producers are among the most munificent backers of political campaigns in the U.S. Investigators for the Senate Watergate committee and Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski believe that the milkmen contributed as much as $737,000 to President Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, much of it illegally. Moreover, officers of the nation's largest dairy cooperative, Associated Milk Producers, Inc. (AMPI), admitted last week that the gift to the President's campaign was only part of a five-year scheme to help friendly politicians, both Democrats...
...paper failed to note, however, that not a single price-support bill had even reached committee consideration in Congress at the time Nixon acted. Nor did it report that Nixon's fund raisers received $10,000 from the milkmen the day before he met with them on March 23, 1971, another $25,000 the day after - and that the hike in price supports was announced the next...
...Administration for basing the support hike on political grounds. The attorneys filed a brief in a Washington federal court quoting from a subpoenaed tape of Nixon's March 23 meeting, contending that it showed that the President may have been obliquely acknowledging the donation when he told the milkmen: "I must say a lot of business men and others I get around this table, they yammer and talk a lot but they don't do anything about it. But you do and I appreciate that. I don't need to spell...
Officials of Associated Milk Producers Inc., the nation's largest dairy cooperative, which was one of the contributors, have privately told the committee that White House files contain documents that will reveal a quid pro quo arrangement between the milkmen and the Nixon Administration...