Scaife, Richard Mellon
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ep 2 IRS investigated CC for looking at CREEP, secret magic window; richard scaife, ambassadors
lever master plan ep 4
master plan 11 4 24
immed after ruling hockey stick dk money? politics by extortion?
montana amicus brief said 2 claims demo BS bullock whitehouse w/ mccain
11-1179-Senators-Whitehouse-and-McCain-Cert-Amicus
sep by other reps
memo john dean to colson on using corps/trade gps to beat finance reform ep 1
ep 2* Secret Plan for a 60-Day Lawless Window:Read the memo in which Watergate’s burglary mastermind G. Gordon Liddy lays out how anonymous corporate donors can funnel money to Nixon’s campaign before new campaign finance laws go into effect.
- A Nixon Aide Rehearses His Lies and Smears:Listen to Oval Office recordings, courtesy of the Nixon Library, in which Watergate conspirator workshops lines of attack that he’ll use in a television interview hours later to attack campaign finance reformers.
- Watchdogs Storm CREEP:*
Republican John Gardner and his watchdog group storm the office of Nixon’s Committee To Reelect The President to demand the release of its secret list of donors.
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DAVID:The news story picks up later that day at the Common Cause office, where we see rooms of young volunteers. They’re sporting some quintessential 70s outfits along with handlebar mustaches, big collars, and big hair. Most of them look fresh-faced— barely out of college — as they begin to sort through the preliminary donor information they’d managed to extract from CREEP. They didn’t get the holy grail — the anonymous donor list from the secret window — but they’d gotten something.
ARCHIVAL NEWS CLIP:A quick total for Chairman Gardner, just under $5 million. Heading the list, Chicago insurance man Clemens Stone — $1,000,000 — reinforcing rumors he’s about to be appointed ambassador to Great Britain.
Next, $800,000 from Richard Scaife of the wealthy Mellon family.
Arthur Watson, former ambassador to France, gave $300,000. John Mulcahy of New York hosted the president on his trip to Ireland, $255,000.
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