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...Your article about a measure for public financing of presidential campaigns [Dec. 17] sponsored by Senators Kennedy and Mondale portrays Senator James Allen as a villain because of his efforts to scuttle this bill-a bill opposed even by Senators Ervin and Weicker. You can't seem to recognize a piece of hurriedly prepared, half-baked legislation sneakily attached to an important bill that was assured of President Nixon's signature. I believe that Senator Allen deserves a lot of credit for his efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1974 | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...Although I admire tremendously every man and woman connected with uncovering the Watergate scandal. I would have to say that Senator Lowell P. Weicker stands out in the crowd. He is so truthful and unafraid of criticism. Therefore, I hereby nominate him as TIME'S Man of the Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1973 | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...papers to the Government in time to claim the tax privileges that he took? A tightening in the tax laws ended deductions for gifts of such material, effective July 25, 1969. On that date, according to a General Services Administration investigation performed at the request of Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, the President's documents were being kept at the National Archives in an area reserved for "courtesy storage" and they were neither sorted nor formally valued until later in the year. The President still retains control over access to all the pa pers, which are stored in the Archives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: New Doubts Over Nixon's Finances | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...last item that has stirred the sharpest criticism and inspired an investigation by Republican Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, who has promised to forward the results of his investigation to the Internal Revenue Service and to demand action on the case this week. The White House claims -without substantiation so far-that the President merely followed "the tradition of his six predecessors" in giving his private papers to the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President as Taxpayer: The Accounting | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...firmly took no such position was Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Chairman Russell DeYoung. His company's illegal donation, he testified, "was made solely because we thought the re-election of the President was in the best interest of the country." Republican Senator Lowell Weicker, after getting DeYoung to concede that the company disclosed its contribution only when it was clear that federal investigators were getting close, commented: "I'd say it's a pretty sorry day for Goodyear." Snapped DeYoung: "Not necessarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN FINANCING: Why It Was Better to Give Than . . . | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

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