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...death came only five days after the General Accounting Office disclosed that Mills had received a 1971 contribution of $25,000 from the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President. The money, according to the GAO, was part of an unreported $900,000 in cash spent by the Nixon campaign committee before the April 1972 mandatory disclosure date. According to Maryland law, all congressional campaign contributions must be reported to the state's board of elections, and any donation of more than $2,500 from a single source is illegal. Mills' office never reported the contribution. A prosecution...
With all the indictments surfacing, the first note of real tragedy struck yesterday. Rep. William O. Mills (R-Md.) committed suicide a day after he denied receiving an unreported $25,000 campaign contribution from the Committee to Re-Elect the President...
McCord also said, under close questioning by Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R-Conn.), that the Justice Department provided him with detailed information on the political opposition while he was chief security officer for the Committee to Re-Elect the President...
Even before the burglary of the psychiatrist's office, the White House had begun to shift its clandestine activities toward the effort to re-elect Nixon. In 1971, Nixon's prospects for re-election were not promising. A Harris poll in May showed Muskie with an eight-point lead over the President, assuming Alabama Governor George Wallace would run. Nixon, who had declared that "when I'm the candidate, I run the campaign," did not trust the Republican Party professionals to handle his re-election drive. He wanted a separate organization. A group of admen and pollsters were consulted; they...
...name. Unlike most Washington scandals in the past, Watergate is not a case of a few officials trying to steal public money or use their influence for private gain. Most of the clandestine activities were undertaken in a blatantly amoral atmosphere for the sole purpose of helping to re-elect Richard Nixon or of concealing that effort by subverting the judicial process. These were all Nixon's men. His presidency, and his place in history, are contaminated by them...