Word: mollenhoff
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Those who recall Mollenhoff's failure to win the presidency of the National Press Club say his memory is long...
...Clark Mollenhoff has not had to wait. He used to be the toughest-some would say most demonic-reporter in Washington. Mollenhoff helped unearth the scandals involving Jimmy Hoffa, Bobby Baker and many lesser operators. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his "persistent inquiry into labor racketeering." Now Mollenhoff is a White House deputy counsel charged with digging out Government malfeasance and corruption from the inside. He has scoured the record of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., and has flatly rejected as character assassination the conflict of interest charges Democrats have leveled against the Supreme Court nominee...
...Mollenhoff mandate, however, is shaping up as much larger than that kind of caper. Undermining Republican appointees, after all, has limited polit ical value. Thus Mollenhoff is continuing old crusades he pursued in his frontpage days. He aided Republican Senator John Williams in gathering material for the Senator's charge last week against the Johnson Administration. Friends of L.B.J., said Williams, got $2,000,000 worth of federal land in Austin almost as a gift from lame duck Johnson officials...
Warm Grudge. Four weeks ago, Mollenhoff and the White House helped Representative H. R. Gross put together an attack on former Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey and a friend, Max Kampelman, are said to have interceded in a foreign-aid transaction on behalf of an auto gear and parts factory doing business with India. Williams and Gross used to swap intelligence with Newsman Mollenhoff...
Kampelman is an old Mollenhoff target, and Mollenhoff is a man who knows how to keep a grudge warm...