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Getting tax information on individuals was relatively easy for the White House aides. Haldeman was able to obtain a "status report" on Gerald Wallace, brother of Alabama Governor George Wallace, in early 1970. Haldeman told Clark Mollenhoff, then a Special Counsel to the President (since returned to his reporting job for the Des Moines Register and Tribune), to acquire the information, and Mollenhoff agreed after being assured by Haldeman that Nixon wanted it. Mollenhoff got it from Assistant IRS Commissioner Donald W. Bacon. The report, which claimed that Gerald Wallace might have failed to report kickbacks from state liquor sales...
Kissinger went out of his way to make himself accessible to reporters and editors at "deep background" briefings -but almost always on a not-for-attribution basis. One newsman familiar with the Kissinger style is Clark Mollenhoff, Washington Bureau Chief of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, who had baited the Secretary on the taps issue at his Washington press conference. "He sits you down and tells you what he thinks you want to hear, then asks what you think," says Mollenhoff. "It's very clever and very flattering...
These developments provoked the angry exchange between Kissinger and reporters at the press conference called to celebrate his successful Middle East negotiations. Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register, himself a former Nixon aide, wanted to know if Kissinger had had any direct role in initiating the wiretaps. His face contorted by anger, Kissinger grimly recalled his denials of responsibility before the Senate committee, but then appeared to equivocate. He said that he "did not make a direct recommendation" on the wiretaps. As Mollenhoff persisted, the Secretary rather plaintively remarked: "I have attempted to serve the Government in an honorable...
...Pennsylvania Avenue: If the writers don't stay in line, they risk Ziegler's "ominous pat on the back." After that they might expect to receive tax audits, be ignored at press conferences, or be manipulated into squabbles over scoops with colleagues from their own paper. When Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register, reputedly "the toughest investigative reporter in Washington," finds that Ziegler has retracted a statement he made a Mollenhoff in private, his bitter dispute with Ziegler wins no supporters among his cowed associates...
Certainly the credibility of Press Secretary Ziegler has been shattered, although it was compromised long ago. Last week Clark Mollenhoff, the Des Moines Register's Washington bureau chief (and a former Nixon adviser), dramatized the growing feeling of many newsmen about Ziegler. At a White House press briefing, Mollenhoff contended that Ziegler had twice privately given him information about Watergate that was now shown to be untrue. "I think I have some rights to have you apologize at the present time for being inaccurate," Mollenhoff said. Replied Ziegler: "Sir, I responded to your question at that time, and my remarks...