SEC Wast Asked To Check Vesco Donation
Washington AP report notes Mau rice Stans, Nixon reelection finance chief, personally contacted SEC official G. Bradford Cook Jr. to question if a $250,000 Vesco donation was tainted. Nixon returned the funds after SEC questions, amid broader Vesco fund looting probes. Justice Department later charged the Nixon committee with campaign reporting violations. Vesco remains abroad. federal actions and grand jury proceedings continue.
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Nixon
Stans
G. Bradford Cook Jr
SEC
Commission
Robert L. Vesco
Cook
Vesco
Bahamas
Washington
Sched
Nixon Committee
Justice Department
Senate
William Proxmire
D-Wis
White House
Nixon Campaign Committee
New York
IOS
Overseas Services, Group
U.S
New York City
Costa Rica
United States
Edmund L. Palmieri
GOP Campaign Official Named In Indictment
A federal indictment charges Donald H. Segretti and George A. Hearing with publishing and distributing a bogus Citizens for Muskie letter before the 1972 Florida primary. The scheme involved Robert Milton Benz, a former Tampa Young Republicans leader, and an unindicted co conspirator. Segretti allegedly paid Benz to carry out the plan, with stationery supplied for mass mailing to Democratic voters. Hearing turned himself in and was released on bond, denying further comment.
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Orlando
Fla
Donald H. Segretti
Edmund Muskie
California
George A
Tampa
Robert Milton Benz
Washington
Hearing
Political General Haig named interim White House chief of staff
Gen Alexander Haig Jr a political general returns to the White House named by President Nixon as interim successor to resigned Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. Haig, 48, has served on Kissinger’s staff and led missions to Vietnam and the Red China summit plan. He says the job is exciting yet acknowledges presidential loneliness and time away from the Army.
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Washington
Alexander Haig Jr
White House
Haig
Nixon
Henry Kissinger
H.R
Bob) Haldeman
Kissinger
Pentagon
Army
Deman
West Point
Vietnam
Red China
Paris
Kissingers National Security Council
NSC
Martha Mitchell Seethes Over Nixon Snub in Deposition
New York AP reports Martha Mitchell, wife of former attorney general John Mitchell, complains Nixon re election committee did not list her name after she campaigned extensively. She says she felt overburdened, resigned as campaign director’s wife, faced unsuitable aides, and warned a reporter she would quit if her husband did not leave Washington.
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John Mitchell
New York
AP Wirgohoto
Nixon
John
We House
White House
California
Democratic Party
Mitchell
Washington
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Gen. A.M. Haig JR
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