Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from large sums; cash is called "green." Wrote Strachan: "Of the 1.2 fund Kalmbach has a balance of 900 [meaning $900,000]-plus under his personal control." Strachan presented to Haldeman the recommendation of Stans, Dean and Herbert Kalmbach, the President's private lawyer and a major fund raiser, that "690" be put in legal committees and that "only the 230 green would be held under Kalmbach's personal control." Haldeman approved with his "H," and in a handwritten note at the bottom of the page told Strachan to "make it 350 green and hold...
...good shape. His bid to buy New York City's Chemical Bank was rebuffed in 1969, but Steinberg has branched into insurance, management consulting, and ship, barge and aircraft leasing, now runs his companies from Manhattan as chairman of the Reliance Group Inc. An active fund raiser for charities, he contributed $250,000 to Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign...
...committee investigators' best source was Herbert Kalmbach, once Nixon's personal lawyer and a political fund raiser. He told them that the cooperatives, led by Associated Milk Producers, Inc., offered $250,000 in 1969 to the Nixon campaign in hopes of obtaining higher price supports, a speech by Nixon at a forthcoming milk producers' convention and an audience at the White House for milk cooperative leaders. According to the draft, Kalmbach "reported to [then White House Chief of Staff] H.R. Haldeman the pending contribution and the three goals, and Haldeman authorized him to accept the contribution." Haldeman...
...week's end Nixon took to the road to sell his side of the transcript story to the public. His first stop was Phoenix, Ariz., where his audience of 13,000 at a Republican fund raiser was mostly friendly. But shouts of "Hail to the thief!" and rhythmic clapping from a handful of hecklers in the balcony rattled Nixon. His voice quavered, his hands tightly gripped the flower-bedecked lectern, and he occasionally mispronounced words. Still, cheers drowned out the boos when he said that he had furnished "all the relevant evidence" needed "to get Watergate behind us" and promised...
...economy, salvation will too. The major's father is such a powerful character (remember Robert Morley in the movie?) that he runs away with Shaw's message a couple of times, and there are also a few great setpieces, notably the almost-conversion of Bill Walker. As a curtain-raiser, there's Icarus' Mother, by Sam Shepard who's a more or less experimental playwright, and the director is Robert Chapman, professor of English and director of the Loeb. Wot prawce selvytion naow? 7:30 at the Loeb Ex, where things are free...