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Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
[00.33.37] Senator TALMADGE. In that you still are chastising Mr. Sloan because he did not deposit a check, I believe, for $1,000 from Mrs. Alice Abel promptly enough, and get, out, a thank you letter promptly enough. Is that the sum and substance of it? Mr. STANS. Well, the sum and substance of it, Senator, is that I received a check from this lady and--while I was in Omaha on May 12--for some reason it did not appear on the sheet listing the contributions until June 1. Now, I did receive from Mr. Sloan every day a report, of the contribution received, and when I found out, that that check hadn't appeared on the report, for 2 weeks as having been received, I was concerned because it, related to the question of whether we were behind in all of Our work in his shop, His reply was very clear that the check was improperly made out or returned for appropriate endorsement and deposited. I was, not checking on at routine involving one transaction. I Was checking on whether or not, the thank you letters were being kept up to schedule. Senator TALMADGE. Then that at raises this question, Mr. Stans: Why did you allow Mr. Sloan, contrary to your explicit instructions to casually report to you only several weeks later the deposit of the $25,000 check received from Mr. Dahlberg and $89,000 check in Mexican bank checks? Mr. STANS. Well, Senator, I fairly well covered that in my testimony yesterday. The fact is that I was not aware that the Mexican bank checks had even been received until I got back from my vacation around the 24th of April, The fact also is that the record shows that, before I went on that vacation, I left a memorandum of things to be done by the staff, and one of the items was a request for Mr. Sloan to balance up his cash as soon as possible. Now, Mr. Sloan had given those checks to Mr. Liddy, he followed up with Mr. Liddy and I think his testimony is that be followed up several times, and Liddy said, "It takes time to get that money back." Mr. Sloan did get the money back in early or mid-May and deposited I think the follow-up was as thorough as we could have expected it to be. Senator TALMADGE. But you got the Dahlberg check personally, I believe, did you not? Mr. STANS. Yes, it went through my hands, and I had it for a short time on the 11th of April. Senator TALMADGE. Mr. Stans, are you telling---- Mr. STANS. I think, Senator, what you are bringing out is the difference in the function between the 'chairman and the treasurer. I raised the money--he had no part in soliciting contributions. He did the bookkeeping and the accounting and I had no part of that, and once I turned a check over to Mr. Sloan, I had every reason to assume that it would be handled in due course and only when I learned about things that were not handled in due course-as that Abel check--did I raise questions with Mr. Sloan about it. [00.37.20] Senator TALMADGE Are you telling us, Mr. Stans, that as a certified public accountant, a member of the Accountants Hall of Fame, former Secretary of Commerce, and who further had been personally selected by the President to be the Director of the Budget and director of the committee to raise $50 million for his reelection campaign you intended all this money to be spent without any of your supervision and control? Mr. STANS. No, I am not telling you that at all, Senator. I did exercise some supervision and control. I got a daily report of all the contributions received which I looked over every day. I indicated to the extent, that I knew people personally their first, names so that the letter of acknowledgement, and appreciation would be a first-name basis. I saw--I got reports from time to time, I had a daily staff meeting, the summaries of the reports that Were filed with the General Accounting Office. So I did exercise supervision but, I did not, Senator, have anything to do with the day-to-day work of the treasurer's office. Senator TALMADGE, Now, you realize that, the reporting act went into effect on April 7, 1972, do you not? Mr. STANS. That is correct. Senator TALMADGE. And a -very stringent law? Mr. STANS. Yes, sir. [00.38.55]
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
[00.38.55] Senator TALMADGE. Tell us why You didn't, report, this Dahlberg check from Florida. I don't, believe you got, it, until the 10th of April, did you? Mr. STANS. Senator, I covered that, in great detail yesterday; I will be happy to review it again today. Because I think it is important that everybody understand This Was a Contribution which was promised by Mr. Dwayne Andreas in -March and before, and in March he went to the trouble of getting the money in hand. Senator TALMADGE, I don't think you need to repeat that testimony because You made that clear. But how do you consider that it could avoid being reported when the check didn't get to you until the 10th of April, do you take the position that it, was constructively received before you got it? Mr. STANS. NO, Sir. I take the position that it qualified under the definition of the contribution of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, and I would like to read the definition to you. "The term "contribution" includes a gift, subscription, loan, advance, or deposit of money or anything of value and includes a contract, promise, or agreement to make a contribution whether or not, legally enforceable ." Now, Andreas had made a promise, an agreement, to make a contribution well before April 7. He had not only done that, he had gone to the point of doing everything he could personally to make the money available as a contribution It was Clear to me and it was clear to lawyers with whom I consulted: that that contribution was received as a matter of law before April 7 even though it didn't come into our hands until the 11th and, Senator, the Department of Justice has agreed with us in a letter of January 11, 1973 from Henry Petersen, the Assistant Attorney General to Wright Patman. It says: The issue TO be resolved is when the gift became effective as a matter of law. From the evidence developed we are forced to conclude that for criminal purposes, at least, we cannot prove that This contribution had been made after the April 17 effective date of this act and, accordingly, have closed the matter. Now, Senator, I fail to find any basis for criticism in the handling of that transaction. I acted on the basis of legal advice and it turns out that my legal advice was good. Senator TALMADGE. You do not think a promise to contribute to a political campaign is legally enforceable, do you? Mr. STANS. No; but the statute says that it, does not have to be legally enforceable. Senator TALMADGE. I thought, the statute said the receipt had to be reported, even though the promise of the agreement does not have to be. Anyway, we will not argue about that further, but my certified public accountant would certainly hold me to a greater degree of accountability than you would, I believe. Mr. STANS. Let us go a little further into that, Senator, because you have it and I think it is important that this be understood. As of April 7, we had millions of dollars of commitments from people to contribute. Many of these had been solicited by Mr. Kalmbach as early as 1971. I could have, under a literal construction of this law, concluded that every one of those did not need to be reported when the money came in, because it was a commitment before April 17. But I adopted a very much stricter standard for the purposes of a accounting and it, was that only in the case of a commitment where the individual contributor had done everything possible to hand it to us would I consider it a contribution under the second part of this definition. Mr. Andreas had done everything. He wanted to make the contribution He had it in hand. He put it in a safe deposit box for Mr. Dahlberg in his name. It would have been very unfair to him, it seems to me, not to consider it so. Senator TALMADGE. I will not quarrel with you further about, that, Mr. Stans. You have been a man that, I have admired greatly over a long period of time. But it strikes me as being literally inconceivable that you could spend the largest part of your time worrying about pen labels and bumper stickers and not, worrying about what happens to large sums of cash that are being disbursed by these people for unknown causes, particularly when the law is clear on stringent reporting of disbursements. [00.43.42]
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1940s - World War II - Aerial Combat (Dogfight)
Aerial POV from an airplane chasing, firing at another airplane; airplane is hit.
1944 - Castle Films Newsreels - "Roosevelt Defeats Dewey - Wins 4th Term"
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1940s - Transportation - World War I Biplane
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News Parade of the Year 1944 - Allies Liberate France
General Eisenhower speaking to soldiers. Allied Troops marching.
1948 - Castle Films Newsreels - "West's Worst Floods!"
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History/War (Reel 2 of 2)
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #201183 History/War (Reel 2 of 2)
Roadside Attractions & Deep South
Talent is cleared, unless otherwise noted. Crowd shots are not cleared. Various shots of road signs and ephemera, USA.
Washington, DC Monuments
Talent is cleared, unless otherwise noted. Crowd shots are not cleared. Various shots of monuments and memorials in Washington, DC. Shot in both day and night.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Animals/Birds: Ducks, Geese, Lakes, Ponds Streams REEL 1 OF 2
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Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
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This industrial film from Clark construction equipment revolves around the Michigan 675, a 72,000 pound, 24 yard tractor shovel that quite simply is enormous. The footage used in this particular film is identical to that found in WPA 1536 and WPA 1544 so please see them for detailed logs regarding this picture. The only disparity is that WPA 1538 features a lengthy segement on coal mining and overburden; what it is and how to properly attack a mountain.
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Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 Testimony of Maurice Stans
Korean War / FKR
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