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...next. "Keep that man away from me," Nixon ordered his staff, who were seldom able to oblige. Ultimately, Nixon paid his adversary the highest compliment: in the 1972 campaign, the White House decided to employ a Dick Tuck of its own. As H.R. Haldeman testified last week, Donald Segretti was hired to adopt Tuck's techniques and use them against the Democrats...
...secretly channeled into the 1970 campaigns of favored Republican candidates, including, ironically, the highly critical Watergate-committee member Lowell Weicker Jr. The money was held in a dummy organization called "the Public Institute," which dispensed some $2.5 million. By 1971 Kalmbach was supplying funds to California Lawyer Donald Segretti, the White House-directed political sabotage agent. Kalmbach's authority to pay Segretti came from Haldeman and Dwight Chapin, former White House appointments secretary...
Ultimately, the group came up with three alternative responses. In the first, Ziegler was to say that the President was not obliged to answer charges that were "unsubstantiated," "unsupported" and "political in character." A second response called for an admission that Chapin had hired Segretti but had no subsequent responsibility for Segretti's activities. Third, Ziegler could say that the President refused comment on all "allegations of campaign tactics...
...transcript breaks off without noting a final decision, but Ziegler's subsequent responses to reporters' questions on the Chapin-Segretti relationship are a matter of record. He reiterated Chapin's claim that such stories were "fundamentally inaccurate," added that "at no time has anyone in the White House or this Administration condoned such activities as spying on individuals ... or sabotaging campaigns in an illegal way." He also said that the President was concerned about stories "based on hearsay, innuendo, guilt by association." Chapin finally resigned to take a job with an airline-after Ziegler had denied that...
...Patrick Gray. Egil Krogh. Henry Petersen. Herbert Porter, Donald Segretti and. of course. Richard M. Nixon...