Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three prominent members of past Administrations had attempted six months before the Watergate break-in to enlist his help in bringing down Nixon. Cronkite failed to ask their names; indeed, the questioning was rather gentle. When Cronkite did ask pointedly if Vesco had ever personally discussed his gift or SEC problems with the President, Vesco allowed a pregnant pause and then feigned deafness...
...March 3, 1973, with Stans' support, Cook gained his goal of succeeding Casey as chairman of the SEC. Four days later, he was seated across a table from Stans in the White House mess. Said Cook: "He looked at me and said, 'Brad, let's have one of those conversations that doesn't take place...
According to Cook, Stans then said he had lied to the grand jury by saying that he had never discussed Vesco with Cook until after the SEC complaint was filed. Said Cook: "I looked at Mr. Stans, or actually I looked into my coffee cup, and I said, 'Well,' and I kind of hesitated, and he said, 'Well, Brad, that's the way it happened, and there is no sense in getting everybody embarrassed here. There was nothing done wrong here. The gift was a legal gift. Your suit was brought, and all it would...
...tell it like it was." Then he went back to New York City to testify a third time before the grand jury. When the indictment was handed up on May 10, 1973, Stans was accused of inducing Cook to remove all references to the $250,000 from the SEC complaint. Six days later, as news of his questionable role in the Vesco case became public, Cook resigned-after just ten weeks as SEC chairman...
...matter of Vesco's mysterious $250,000 three times to Stans. Why should Cook have done that? The defense left the implication that Cook had been trying to use the Vesco affair to try to pressure Stans into supporting him for the top job at the SEC...