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...book royalties that Nixon said had gone to the tax-exempt Nixon Foundation; the IRS found, however, that "no assignment of title to the manuscript was ever made" and the money should have been reported as personal income. The evidence shows that IRS investigators felt that without sworn testimony from the people who worked on Nixon's taxes about the numerous discrepancies in their statements to the IRS, there was insufficient proof that fraud had been committed. The IRS recommended to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski that a grand jury look into the matter. That investigation is now under...
Even as Makarios was airlifted to Malta and then to London on an R.A.F. Comet jet, a notoriously ruthless terrorist named Nikos Sampson was already being sworn in as President...
Then Stewart shrewdly drew St. Clair into comparing Jaworski with a U.S. Attorney who might seek confidential documents from the President for a criminal trial. Stewart wanted to know what would happen if the President disagreed and the U.S. Attorney persisted because he was "sworn to uphold justice." "Then you would have a new U.S. Attorney," St. Clair said, intentionally eliciting a laugh from the audience. But Stewart forced St. Clair to admit that Jaworski, unlike a U.S. Attorney, could not be fired by the President without the approval of leaders of Congress?a condition that had been specifically prescribed...
...what had been a primary purpose of the Rebozo investigation: to establish a definite link between Rebozo's expenditures on the President's behalf and the $100,000 campaign contribution from Billionaire Howard Hughes. The report alleges but does not prove that, contrary to Rebozo's sworn testimony, he did not leave the Hughes contribution intact in a safe-deposit box for three years before returning it to a Hughes representative in June 1973. As previously reported, the President's former lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, told the committee that Rebozo had told him that he gave part...
...action legislation is still lacking. And HEW is at a loss as to just what can be done about overcoming sex discrimination which exists in people's minds rather than on paper. Officials even say that women who will have a hard time building a discrimination case based upon sworn remarks such as "but she can't do it, she's a woman," rather than documented evidence of discrimination...