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More dark rumors arose in 1971, when Don's only son Don Jr., then 24, was hired as a personal aide by Robert L. Vesco, the wandering financier now under federal indictment for illegally contributing $200,000 to the Nixon campaign in 1972 and conspiring to obstruct justice. Vesco took such a liking to young Don Nixon that he invited him to move into the family home in Boonton, N.J. It is not altogether clear what work Don Jr. does in return for such treatment, but the two have traveled together abroad and Don Jr. has been quoted...
Then, in the same resolution that called for Afro's restructuring, the Faculty voted to establish the DuBois Institute on a University-wide basis. By this time Guinier was only in a position to denounce such a plan; he could not, as he had earlier done, obstruct its implementation...
...grand jury's showing of need here is well documented and imposing [If Former Presidential Counsel John Dean's] testimony is corroborated, it will tend to establish that a conspiracy to obstruct justice reached the highest level of Government. It is true, of course, that other testimony indicates that the conversations did not include direct evidence of criminal misconduct. While this is not the time or place to judge credibility, Dean's testimony cannot be dismissed out of hand...
Arlen's principal focus is the trial of State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, who was accused - and acquitted - of conspiring to obstruct justice in inves tigating the facts of the police raid, in which the killings were presented as "self-defense." Arlen surrounds his tri al narrative with the atmospherics of Chicago. But it is mostly offhand, as if Arlen knows, as the reader knows, that Mike Royko has done Richard Daley better and Norman Mailer got Chica go down much better five years...
...Stans are scheduled to stand trial in federal court in New York City on charges of conspiring to arrange an illegally secret $200,000 cash contribution to the Nixon re-election campaign by New Jersey Financier Robert L. Vesco. In return, according to the indictment, they tried-unsuccessfully-to obstruct and impede the Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of Vesco, who was later charged with looting millions from the huge I.O.S. mutual-fund complex. Acquittals of these close aides would naturally be helpful to Nixon -and convictions damaging...