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...directly to President Nixon by Associated Milk Attorney Patrick Hillings. On March 12, 1971, however, then Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin decided that no increase hi milk price supports was warranted. To reverse the decision, the cooperatives began an intensive lobbying campaign. On March 22, 1971, they delivered a first payment of $10,000 on their campaign pledge (actual donations were to total about...
...distinctions between the two groups are based on the federal criteria for employees who are either exempt or non-exempt from payment for over-time work. Officers of the University will not receive money for overtime, but the members of the supporting staff will...
...impeachment. Jaworski also warned that if the Supreme Court were to rule that the grand jury had exceeded its authority in going after the President, indictments of seven other officials might be jeopardized. The 23 jurors were particularly impressed by the President's apparent failure to rule out the payment of hush money to the Watergate burglars. At one point Nixon told Dean, "Get it," and investigators later confirmed that $75,000 was delivered that very night to the lawyer for E. Howard Hunt Jr., one of those convicted of staging the breakin. Also, the jurors were convinced that...
...mixed up. A few?but not all?of the Watergate investigators wonder whether the tapes were doctored in order to establish a later date for the President's learning of the Watergate coverup. One reason for their suspicion: all through the Watergate hearings, it was believed that the final payment of hush money was made on March 20; had the President not learned of the cover-up until March 21, he could not possibly have approved the final payment. Not until recently was it established that the last installment was actually paid on March...
...defense. At issue is his seeming authorization of hush money to buy Hunt's continued silence. He argued that he considered paying only because a national security problem?which he did not further identify?was involved. In the end, he said, he "did not intend the further payment to Hunt or anyone else be made," but he conceded that his words on the tapes were ambiguous...