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...helping create and run a secret committee in 1970 for which he collected nearly $4 million for congressional candidates but had no treasurer or chairman and failed to file reports as required by law; 2) soliciting and accepting a $100,000 political contribution in 1970 from J. Fife Symington Jr., Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, in return for a pledge?which Kalmbach testified that he cleared with an unnamed White House aide?that Symington would get a higher-ranking ambassadorial post in Europe...
...other unnamed former White House aides helped Kalmbach run the committee. They, too, will presumably be charged at some later date. It seems highly unlikely that such a large fund would have been gathered without the President's knowledge. The deal with the ambassador was only a misdemeanor, and Symington never got a European job; but it would have taken
...These acts outraged some members of the Joint Committee when Ray presented them as fails accomplis. But other committeemen were pleased by her independence. "Dixy Lee does what she believes in, and has brought a whole new vitality to the AEC," says Washington Representative Mike McCormack. Missouri Senator Stuart Symington told her: "Stick by your guns, young lady...
...that the U.S. had not wanted to force him into having to protest the bombing. But the secrecy outraged a number of Congressmen. Iowa Senator Harold Hughes called it "a deliberate attempt by the Administration to conceal the bombing because they were afraid of public reaction," and Senator Stuart Symington charged the Administration with spending $145 million-which he calculated as the cost of the secret bombing-"under false pretenses." The Pentagon, surprisingly, replied that the real cost of the secret bombing in Cambodia and Laos during that period was $1.5 billion...
...Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) read a memorandum to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in which Walters said he was ordered by Haldeman, then Nixon's chief of staff, to contact acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray III to ask that the FBI not pursue a Mexican lead in the early investigation of the Watergate break...