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Money, Attitude One of the Rich Gang!
NY TIMES MAG.
July 22, 1973

Stone Tells How
He Assisted Nixon

By MORTON MINTZ
Washington Post News Service

WASHINGTON-President Nix- on twice told Chicago insurance magnate W. Clement Stone that he would not have been elected in 1968 had it not been for Stone's gifts of money-$2.8 million- and of the philosophy known as positive mental attitude.

"On two occasions," Stone said, the President "gave me the highest honor that I will probably ever receive, from my viewpoint. He called me aside and said, 'Clem, you know and I know that I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you.'"

Stone, the President's principal contributor, made the disclosure on KUP's Show, a television pro- gram broadcast in Chicago by WMAQ last Sunday. An aide to Stone said Wednesday the Presi- dent expressed his thanks to Stone at Camp David, Md., after the 1968 election and again at a dinner.

On the program, Stone recalled that once he said he would have spent any amount of money to elect or re-elect "one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all presidents."

"How much were you ready to go for?" asked columnist Irv Kupcinet, who conducts the pro- gram.

"Ten million dollars," replied Stone, who gave the President $2 million in 1972, for a four-year to- tal of $4.8 million.

"Now, keep this in mind," Stone said May 28 in an interview with Michael Ryan of Granada Television in Britain. "Every- thing is relative. With a family worth in those days (the 1960s) better than $400 million, what's a million or two, particularly when you can change the course of his- tory, according to the principles for which you stand?"

Stone emphasized that he also helped Nixon by introducing him to positive mental attitude (PMA) in 1964, when the Presi- dent was national chairman of the Boys Clubs of America and Stone was a director.

Every member of the organiza- tion's board was exposed to PMA concept, and "I know for a fact" that Nixon "and his family have been exposed to it." Stone told Kupcinet, "I know that the books (on PMA) are in the White
"I found this terrific change in this man, this drastic change, an almost 180-degree turn from somewhat of a negative personal- ity to a positive personality," Stone continued. "I worked with him. He was exposed to PMA, and I realized that perhaps this was my one chance in an entire lifetime in which I could change the course of history for the bet- ter."

Praising the President as "a man of integrity," Stone indicat- ed to Kupcinet that he had been disillusioned little, if at all, by the Watergate scandal.

"Previous to the Watergate hearings, I predicted that under the PMA philosophy with every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent greater benefit," Stone said.

He went on to predict "that the revealing of these things" in the Watergate hearings "will be one of the most wholesome things that could have happened and that Nixon in time will come up with a mandatory, enforceable code of ethics that will try to pre- vent a recurrence of Watergate at any level of government."

Stone said he believed that "not a dime" of his $4.8 million went to any of the improper acts associated with Watergate. He said he based his belief on the fact that, rather than being solic- ited, he "provided the seed mon- ey. I was the one that was going to change the history of the world, so they didn't have to ask me. So I got in early."

During the 1968 campaign, Stone said, Maurice H. Stans, chairman of the Finance Com- mittee to Re-Elect the President, who has been charged with ob- struction of justice in an indict- ment returned in New York City, and Herbert W. Kalmbach, Nix- on's personal attorney, came to him for advice.

Stone said he told them that "if you are aiming for a high objec- tive, you must go after large sums."

Replying to a question about the disclosure that the President taped all of his phone calls and conversations, Stone said, "I think it is perfectly proper for him to have done so for many, many reasons," including the
HE densest fog of un- certainty still swirls around the head of Richard Nixon, who finds himself under in- creasing pressure to speak out more fully, release relevant White House documents and even submit to Congressional questioning. Within a few months, he had suffered an epic fall from grace. He had defused the Vietnam War as a national issue, won the plaudits of a grateful na- tion for his historic "voyage of peace" to Peking and Mos- cow-and been returned to office by one of the largest margins of modern times. Now, suddenly, the polls were reflecting a startling loss of public confidence, the once- recumbent Congress was challenging his authority - and he found himself on the defensive, backing and filling before the outpourings of Watergate.

An insistent press and a querulous Congress are ask- ing just how much the Presi- dent knew, how much he cov- ered up. The answer to these questions will largely deter- mine not just the future of Richard Nixon's Presidency
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE/JULY 22, 1973
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SCIENTISTS.....

I doubt...that any of you documented these two startling newsclips. These two newsclips, here on this page...is the key, the answer... to "Why Watergate".

First, note what the fabulously wealthy Clement Stone...one of the "rich gang" I've talked about before... states in this article. He was willing to give Nixon ten million... almost anything, really for the thrill, the kic if you will...of being instrumental in "changing the course of history." Note espec. that he uses this phras not once, but three times.

Next...see the New Yor Times magazine article clipping. See what Magruder...a member of the now-infamous White House Gang...told Port THE EXACT SAME PHRASE WORD FOR WORD USED BY CLEMENT STONE OVER AND OVER!

I.e., wealth wasn't motivating this crowd power, only incidentally...what WAS motivating these national and internat moneyed creeps...was the "kick" out of

being able to manipulate and control history...to determine "the course of history".

Of course...in this tremendous, whopping conspiracy...I am positive that key members may have been brainwashed. Sounds crazy, I know...but note that Stone points out that Nixon changed, after "being exposed to PMA". Also, this point would explain the uniformity of the thinking processes of the witnesses before the Senate Watergate Committee.

Owens
xPK/Mant

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40 L Aug 8, 1973 THE NEW YORK TIMES

Watergate Leaves Scars On Young Nixon Loyalist

By STEVEN V. ROBERTS Special to The New York Times

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif., Aug. 4—For two brief days in June Herbert L. Porter testified on Watergate before a national figure, testifying about his rather small role in the Watergate drama. Then, the major characters took over and the Senate hearings he led him to the point where he now faces a possible indictment for perjury.

Mr. Porter also harbors deep resentment for the men who ran the Nixon White House, the men, he feels, who asked to help conceal Mr. Liddy's activities, and he now faces a possible indictment for perjury.

Aides Seen Misused
"The original sin was not the Watergate bugging—that wasn't right, but that is not really the issue," he said recently, as the morning fog clung to the coast a few blocks away.

"Nor is the issue really the cover-up," he continued. "That was almost a natural growth of the situation. We were in the middle of a campaign. What else do you do?"

"In my opinion," he went on, "the original sin was the misuse of these younger people, not only through Watergate and the cover-up, but through the whole White House system. They were not criminals by birth or design. Left to their own devices, they wouldn't engage in this sort of thing. Someone had to be telling them to do it, to do their dirty work, and damn it, that's a crime!"

That sounds a little "self-excusing," I suggested.

"Well, self, or his former colleagues. They did not exactly fight off their seducers. They came to Washington, he pointed out, with vast ambitions, lured by the prospect of power and success, in the same way that young actresses still flock to Hollywood dreaming of the day when footprints will mark their footprints embedded in a sidewalk.

At age 35, Mr. Porter looks like a slightly older version of the big man he once was on the campus of the University of Southern California. In fact, he was friends from U.S.C. including Ron L. Ziegler, now days."

A Presidential assistant, who joined the Nixon Administration in 1970, after six months doing odd jobs in the White House, the Nixon White House, he shifted to the Committee for the Re-election of the President ing.

In conversations with Mr. Porter, his family and friends, and became its scheduling director.

Concealed Data on Liddy
At the committee, Mr. Porter disbursed some money to G. Gordon Liddy, one of the organizers of the Watergate break-in, for what he thought to be "dirty tricks." As the Watergate cover-up expanded, Mr. Porter was the way who was asked to help conceal Mr. Liddy's activities, and he did. Why?

Mr. Porter was a long-time supporter of Mr. Nixon, a native of the President's home Congressional district; moreover, he was eager to advance his own fortunes. But in addition to loyalty and ambition, he said, the explanation must include the atmosphere of the White House.

It was a "heady place," he said, what with Henry A. Kissinger walking the halls and John B. Connally eating lunch at the next table. Watching the President leave for China was a rare chance "to see history in the making." Decisions were made every day that affected millions of people.

"This 'mystique'" he went on, "enhanced by the judicious distribution of certain perquisites. An invitation to a White House event, it was very simple."

David Mr. Porter has told friends, only half jokingly, that H. R. Haldeman kept a list of which young staffers he Herbert L. Porter testifying on Watergate last June Associated Press work a whole year of 14-hour to say it. I just sobbed. I couldn't believe what was hap- days."

Any national Administration pening to me."

pening to me."

There definitely did exist a house in California, which he "we-they attitude" he said, could no longer afford, and i "we' being anyone inside the getting out of the deal he iri gate, they' being all others. $5,000."

Lost Job and House
After weeks of uncertainly, Mr. Porter decided to tell his whole story to Federal prosecutors and bargain for immunity. Sr explains the decision now:

"It sounds corny, but I t was the right thing to protect the President' from things that should let the come out, and let the Am people judge. It would this defensiveness, greatest therapy to me." Lord know should practice it."

After the testimon Mr. ters fled Wash Senator "hom" Accordin can of Tennessee, why he had com acted on his own "con- to some science" and resisted the tide of linked to events."

"That question sounds good. As but in practice we just don't spe it," Mr. Porter reflected. "If spe you question too much, you find yourself out in left field."

"This 'mystique'" he went on-that's true not just in gr hanced by the judicious d strib- ment, but in business ution of certain perquisite. An is much easier to s invitation to a White House out. It was ver event, it was very simple."

David Mr. Porter has told friends, only half jokingly, that H. R. Haldeman kept a list of which young staffers he