By Allan Lengel ticklthewire.com Better late than never. The Nixon Presidential Library in California on Thursday is making available Nixon’s grand jury testimony about the Watergate scandal, the Associated Press reports. This should be interesting. The public release of the material comes four months after a judge ordered the June 1975 records unsealed. “This is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The often outspoken and never shy late Yankees owner George M. Steinbrenner was not so talkative when it came to an FBI probe into his illegal campaign contributions to President Nixon’s re-election campaign, the New York Daily News reported. Based on FBI documents released Thursday, the Daily News reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire Sidney Smith, a World War II vet and Nixon-appointed U.S. Attorney in Idaho, died on April 23 at the age of 95, The Associated Press reported. Born in the Midwest, he graduated from the University of Colorado law school, AP reported. In 1970, President Nixon appointed him deputy general counsel for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Alfred Wong, a former Secret Service official who reportedly oversaw the installation of the taping system at the Nixon White House, and whose job at one point was to prevent the White House from being bugged, died last week of mesothelioma, a form of cancer, the Washington Post reported….
Miller Helped Convict James Hoffa By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Herbert J. “Jack” Miller Jr. lead the Justice Department’s war on organized crime in the 1960s under Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, and helped convict legendary Teamster James Hoffa , according to the Washington Post. On the flip side, as a top notch D.C. defense…
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