Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...puts it, Kalmbach, 52, has long been one of Nixon's most loyal supporters. "He thinks Nixon is the Lord himself," says Don Kennedy, president of an insurance company Kalmbach worked for in 1961. Kalmbach first worked for Nixon in the 1960 presidential campaign and was a fund raiser in the disastrous gubernatorial race two years later. "He was constantly at Nixon's side, puffed up with authority and having complete say how and when the money was to be spent," says a colleague from those days. In the lean years that followed for Nixon, he stood fast...
...statements of support and exceptionally generous contributions to Nixon's re-election campaign. But in the wake of Watergate, many executives feel betrayed. "I am disappointed. I feel that I've been had," says Richard Wright, chairman of Pittsburgh's Richard Wright Corp. and a fund raiser for Nixon last year. "I gave $5,000 to the campaign, and now I get a picture of my money going somewhere in a suitcase. I don't like that...
...Vesco's $200,000 cash contribution to President Nixon's re-election campaign. Supposedly, Cook did that at the urging of former Attorney General John Mitchell, then director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, and Maurice Stans, C.R.P.'s chief fund raiser and former Commerce Secretary. Cook claimed that he was innocent of any wrongdoing and until last week insisted that he would...
Former Attorney General John Mitchell, once Nixon's closest political adviser, was indicted for perjury and conspiracy to defraud; so was Nixon's chief campaign fund raiser, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans. The arduously prepared prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon papers was dismissed because of Government wiretapping, burglary and other misconduct...
...inner establishment of the Republican Party, having served as a major G.O.P. link with corporations and businessmen back through the Eisenhower Administration, in which he was Director of the Budget. Stans became Nixon's Commerce Secretary in 1969 and left in February 1972 to become the chief fund raiser for the Nixon campaign...