Word: probings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Francis A. Ritchie, supervising investigator in charge of the second DPU probe, said yesterday that final hearings on the investigation are scheduled for October...
...Senators will also probe a number of other areas: How could Lance have pledged the same collateral twice for separate loans from New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and Chemical Bank? Why did the Justice Department close its investigation into the Calhoun overdrafts the day before Lance was nominated as OMB director? Was it really common practice, as stated by Jody Powell, for small-town bankers to overdraw their accounts? And why was only a cursory mention made of the comptroller's investigation during Lance's confirmation hearings? Could internal memos at Manufacturers Hanover Trust...
...only Senator to vote against Lance during the confirmation hearings, on the ground that he lacked administrative and economic policy experience. Now the Senator will take a hard look both at Lance's banking activities and at those of the industry as a whole. The Proxmire committee probe, while illuminating the arcane world of big banking, will also set Bert Lance's conduct into strong relief...
...celebrated "smoking gun" tape (which caused Nixon's most devout Republican defenders on the House Judiciary Committee to recommend his impeachment) so garbled and murky as to be inconclusive. As Lasky sees it, if Nixon actually did get the CIA to impede the FBI's Watergate probe, his aim was not to keep investigators from linking the break-in to his re-election committee. Nixon tried to keep the burglars' cash from being traced, Lasky claims, solely because "it would have been embarrassing for major contributors who had been promised anonymity...
John's store, to be precise, was the infamous Committee to Re-Elect the President, run on a day-to-day basis by its deputy director, Jeb Stuart Magruder. For his role in obstructing the probe, Mitchell this year began serving a 2½-to eight-year term while Magruder got out of prison in January 1975 after having served seven months. Nixon professes nothing but "compassion" for Mitchell, who, he says, was "too smart to ever get involved in a stupid jackass thing like Watergate." But, alas, Mitchell "could only think of that poor Martha and that lovely...