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...President's solicitors were men whom most executives would find it hard to turn down. Three of the companies were approached by the indefatigable Maurice Stans, either while he was still serving as Commerce Secretary or soon after he had 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...
...advocate of "Cambridge jobs for Cambridge residents," is very conservative fiscally, and vigorously defends his right to dispense patronage. Fitzgerald in recent years has slipped from his position as the top vote-getter in the City, but his solid backing in East Cambridge should be more than sufficient to re-elect...
There is the fact that the President spent taxpayers' money to pay Bob Haldeman when Haldeman was not working for the government, but was, in fact, working only for the campaign to re-elect the President...
Most of the $220,000, Kalmbach told the committee, was provided by Nixon re-election officials from various campaign contributions: $75,000 came from Maurice H. Stans, the former Secretary of Commerce and chairman of the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President; and $70,000 came from Frederick C. LaRue, an aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and formerly an official at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Another $75,000 Kalmbach got directly from Thomas V. Jones, president and board chairman of the Northrop Corp., a Los Angeles-based aerospace company. (Jones claimed that...
...testimony of Hugh Sloan, the treasurer of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, had both these elements. Sloan's efforts (taking the oath, below right) was rewarded when Nixon took another oath--the Presidential oath of office--on Inauguration Day last January (below left.) Sloan, like most of Nixon's aides, looked pensive (bottom right) throughout the hearings. He was probably wondering where he, and Nixon, went wrong...