Word: moneyman
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...claimed that his client had been unfairly afflicted by the prosecution with the blight of "Vescoitis"-the implication that Stans had been controlled in thought and deed by Financier Robert Vesco. According to the indictment, Stans and Mitchell had tried to help Vesco with the SEC after the moneyman had made a secret $200,000 cash contribution to Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign...
...former Secretary of Commerce, had in a measure won their gamble-though not necessarily their cases. They had indeed been their own best witnesses against the Government's charges that they had plotted to gain special favors in Washington for Financier Robert Vesco, 38, in exchange for the moneyman's secret $200,000 cash contribution to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign...
...another election draws near, the voice of the moneyman is heard again in the land. There are consultants and computer programmers to be paid, speechwriters and pollsters, landlords and airlines, and-heaven help the penurious politician-the telephone and electric companies. In 1972, some $250 million was spent on federal elections in the U.S. and this year, even with no presidential campaign, the figure could approach $100 million. To raise each of those dollars, some candidate somewhere will have to give up a bit of time, a bit of energy and, in all too many cases, a bit of integrity...
...about the relationship between the two men. Nixon did say that he had helped Vesco get in touch with Mitchell at one point in 1972. But his testimony was so confusing that it could have been interpreted as showing that the onetime Attorney General was resisting the moneyman rather than cooperating with...
Indeed, Vesco was acquainted with the President's two brothers, Edward, 43, and F. Donald, 59, and the latter's son, Donald A. Nixon, who has worked as an aide to the moneyman...