Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 (1/2)
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 (1/2)
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 (1/2)
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 (1/2)
Senator ERVIN. Well, I have not questioned the veracity of the witness, I have asked the witness questions to find out what the truth is. Senator GURNEY. I didn't use the word "veracity." I used the word "harassment." Senator ERVIN. Harassment? Senator GURNEY. Harassment--h-a-r-a-s-s-m-e-n-t. Senator ERVIN. Well, I am sorry that my distinguished friend from Florida does not approve of my method of examining the witness. I am an old country lawyer and I don't know the finer way to do it. I just have to do it my way. Senator GURNEY. I didn't say that I do not approve, I just want, to disassociate myself from--- Senator BAKER. If the Senator will yield for just a think it, is, that it is important that we have this in perspective. I don't think it, is right to go on into an argument. I understood the Senator to say that he found favor with my suggestion that the documents of the Democratic -National Committee and those, candidates for nomination of either of the two major political parties be subpoenas to shed light on the custom and usage with respect to the gift tax and the handling and disbursement of funds. Is that correct? Senator ERVIN. Oh, yes. Senator BAKER. I thank my chairman. Senator ERVIN. I will timely urge the committee to authorize me to sign any subpoena for any person that the committee wants to call. Senator BAKER. I thank the chairman very much.
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 (1/2)
Recess is called on June 13, 1973.
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 (1/2)
Jim LEHRER in studio commenting on how the Chairman was criticized for his style in questioning STANS.
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 (1/2)
PBS network ID--title screen "SENATE HEARINGS ON CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES"
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 (1/2)
Jim Lehrer in studio. LEHRER states that the argument between GURNEY and ERVIN is evidently over for now, and the Chairman will resume questioning
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 13, 1973 (1/2)
Senator ERVIN knocks gavel in the committee room. Senator ERVIN. Mr. Secretary, you testified about 'Mr. Kalmbach coming to you and asking you for, as I understand you to say, all the money that you had available. Mr. STANS. All the cash I could give him. Senator ERVIN. All the cash? Mr. STANS. Right. Senator ERVIN. And you gave him $75,000 dollars? Mr. STANS, Yes, I did. Senator ERVIN. Now, you said that was not out of campaign funds. Did you mean by that that it was out of this special I campaign fund which had been set up for your use? Mr. STANS. Well, I said it was not out of money that was the, property of the committee. The first $45,000 of it was money that had been given to me for expenses which I had decided not to use. $30,000 of it was money which had been offered by a contributor but, I didn't know I could accept it so I had not accepted it. I was holding it in escrow as it were, pending a determination of whether I could accept it or not. Those were the two funds that I gave to Mr. Kalmbach. Senator ERVIN. Now $45,000 had been set aside for your use in raising campaign funds, hadn't it? Mr. STANS. It had been set aside, yes, for my expenses.