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Washington News Editor John Stacks coordinates the various assignments, exploiting the bureau's ability to pool contacts and expertise. Late one night, for example, MacNeil learned that someone at the White House was trying to link Senator Lowell Weicker, an Ervin committee member, with illegal campaign contributions. Sandy Smith pursued the story from there until he discovered which White House people were allegedly responsible for the attempted character assassination. Then Stanley Cloud picked it up and checked the matter with Weicker. Within 24 hours, TIME (July 9) had the full story of the White House plan...
...Weicker revealed that he had talked to Marx and learned that Marx had been interviewed by the FBI and that he and Hoover were not close friends; "the last time they ever met was 30 years ago in Dinty Moore's," a restaurant in Manhattan. The committee produced a letter to Krogh in which Hoover offered to proceed with all relevant interviews. Ehrlichman dismissed this as "papering the file." The agent who authorized the Marx interview, TIME has confirmed, was disciplined by Hoover because he had ignored the director's cantankerous objection to the interview. But Marx...
...been a minimum display of partisan feeling by the committee members." One reason for the nonpartisanship is that Ervin has worked closely with Howard Baker, the ranking Republican and vice chairman. From the beginning, every vote of the committee has been unanimous, except when Connecticut's Lowell Weicker voted against postponing the hearings during the week Leonid Brezhnev was visiting Richard Nixon...
...Weicker continues to defend the moves of the President aimed only at maintaining secrecy and hiding the truth for a while longer. He continues to espouse the "few bad apples" theory rather than admitting that at least one whole barrelful seems to have gone rotten...
Gurney is either loved or hated--depending on whether you love or hate Richard M. Nixon. Weicker has said of Gurney that he is an honest and forceful man, that he is not being programmed by the White House...