Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resigned to head the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President. Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal attorney, was in touch with two others, including American Airlines, whose chief competitor, United Air Lines, happened to be a Kalmbach client. The sixth was visited by a lower-level fund raiser whose credentials were personally verified by John Mitchell, then serving as Attorney General. Not that Nixon's men had to get rough. George A. Spater, until recently the chairman of American Airlines, was courted by Kalmbach over dinner at Manhattan's chic "21" Club. His host...
Donations are running way ahead of collections during the Six-Day War in 1967. "It took us less than ten days to exceed by far the figures of the 30-day campaign for the Six-Day War," says Gerald Schwartz, a Miami fund raiser. "When word of the war came we went around much like Paul Revere, from synagogue to synagogue. By nightfall of the first day, we had over $1,000,000 in bond sales." In Chicago $20 million in bonds has been sold, or nearly four times the amount received during the 1967 war. Says Bond Chairman Harry...
...associates of Agnew's: Jerome B. Wolff, 55, chairman of the Maryland road commission during Agnew's tenure as Governor (1967-69), and I.H. ("Bud") Hammerman II, 49, described as "a highly successful real estate developer and mortgage banker," who also served as a prominent Agnew fund raiser. They testified that they cooperated with Agnew in a systematic scheme to shake down engineers and road-building contractors in return for favored treatment in contract awards. The other two witnesses were Contractors Allen Green, 51, and Lester Matz, 40, who admitted that they personally delivered such illegal payments...
That gave Agnew a chance to retort but instead, speaking at a Republican fund raiser in Chicago, the Vice President sought to ease the tension that was damaging the party by calling Nixon "a great President," and saying: "Thank God we have a man who has faced some of the most unbelievable pressures and handled them...
Courthouse in Baltimore were sealed off by deputy federal marshals, who coordinated their movements by walkie-talkie. Cooperative witnesses were given safe-conduct out of the building by a route that eluded reporters. But William Muth, 63, a Baltimore politician and former fund raiser for Agnew, met a different fate after he had cited the Fifth Amendment and refused to say anything at all. Muth was turned loose at the courthouse garage entrance where the newsmen were massed ? a procedure similar to providing a Christian a path to freedom that led directly through the lions...