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Right after that, Oliphant began receiving a parade of visitors with uncommon sympathy for Klein's predicament. One of the first was Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, the ubiquitous influence peddler who has popped up in half a dozen tax probes. The black-marketeering and tax fraud charges were dropped a few months after Grunewald intervened. By now, Senator Bridges was also in the act. Soon afterward, the lien on Klein's assets was eased to allow him to resume doing business...
When the committee invited Klein last week to explain his good fortune, he testified that he was wholly unaware of Grunewald's intervention, swore that he was not even acquainted with Bridges and certainly had not solicited his help. Grunewald, as usual, was too ill to testify. But Bridges, now the G.O.P. Senate floor leader, readily agreed to take the stand. However, he was not very helpful...
...allowed to spend the committee's money in primaries to help one Republican against another, but he felt that these were exceptional cases and he personally borrowed $10,000 to help Nixon and Young. "I did not want to do it directly myself . . . so I spoke to Mr. Grunewald and asked him whether he would act as a conduit for the transaction . . . In the course of time, for which I was profoundly grateful, [Nixon and Young] were nominated [and] entitled to the $5,000 grant from the committee . . . They repaid me the money...
...chosen Grunewald (at one point Brewster referred to him as "Henry") for such a confidential mission? Said Brewster: "He was apparently well known to members on both sides of the chamber. I think the one who originally spoke highly of him to me was Vice President Barkley . . . as well as Senator Holland of Florida . . . I didn't realize all that was involved, but if I wanted to get a man who had a capacity to keep his mouth shut . . . I didn't realize he was that good." (Laughter...
Brewster departed with another smile and a word of thanks for the committee's courtesy, and the mystery of Henry Grunewald was more mysterious than ever...