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...tell just what effect the Watergate affair and other episodes of political sabotage will have upon the presidential election. It may be that the entire issue of dirty tricks will only linger vaguely in the air and then be swept aside in a Nixon triumph. Texas Democrat Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, failed last week in his repeated efforts to open a congressional investigation of Watergate...
...investigate those accusations. With the Democrats' civil suit against the Re-Election Committee now apparently stalled in the courts, Democrats in Congress are taking up the challenge, in hopes of learning more before the election. Last week the House Banking and Currency Committee, headed by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, issued a report detailing the movement of $100,000 in Nixon campaign contributions through Mexico and contending that some of it was used in the bugging plot...
...Patman committee report states that Maurice Stans, the C.R.P. national finance chairman and former Secretary of Commerce, knew about the Mexican transactions. Stans discussed the case with investigators for Patman's committee and at first denied any such knowledge. Pressed by Patman, however, he conceded that he had received a call from Texas about the $100,000. TIME has learned that just before talking to the Patman staff, Stans received a call from President Nixon in San Clemente. It was described by White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler as a "keep-your-spirits-up type call." Stans has resisted...
...perspective, Robert Kennedy is portrayed as a populist in company with the grand old daddy of conventional populism, Congressman Wright Patman. But then, quite different sorts of politicians have been labeled populists: Spiro Agnew, for example, and Lyndon Johnson...
That historical allusion, which would be lost on most voters, points up one of Reuss's weaknesses: he is considered a bit overgenteel for higher political office. Nonetheless, his seniority makes Reuss an odds-on favorite to succeed 78-year-old Wright Patman as chairman of the powerful Banking Committee. It would be a fitting reward for a patient Congressman who has consistently done his homework...