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CHICAGO — Patrolman John Raetzman holds an hours-old
baby boy he and his partner found in a garbage can in an
alley on Chicago’s west side. They took the child to lillinois
Masonic Hospital where doctors estimated the chilld was
The ‘Mollenhoff cocktail’ exploded
By IRA BERKOW
NEA Senior Editor
WASHINGTON - (NEA) -
Massive Clark Mollenhoff,
Des Moines Register Washing
ton bureau chief and Pulitzer
prize-winning columnist, is a
6-4. 230-pound abominable in
vestigator who has been stalk
ing administrations as far back
as Truman’s, has been Bronx
cheered by every president
since, has been spat at by
Jimmy Hoffa whom he helped
send up the river, and most
recently has bellowed in a
national news conference that
Ron Ziegler, Nixon’s press
secretary, was a liar.
He is called the ' Mollenhoff
cocktail” and he may also
have had an enormous impact
on Watergate.
Mollenhoff, who is also a
lawyer, told his friend Judge
John J. Sirica, "the Watergate
judge," about a recent court
precedent in which a Los
Angeles judge named Fergu
son delayed sentencing to give
the defendants time to decide
whether they would cooperate
more fully with the court. If
they would, the sentence
would be lighter.
Sirica had not known of the
Los Angeles case until Mollen
hoff told him. ("Clark knows
me about as well as anyone,
and I respect him as much as
I do anyone,” says Sirica.)
Sirica then called Judge Fer
guson.
Sirica used this unusual and
controversial delayed sentenc
ing method to flush out testi
mony from Watergate burglar
James McCord which was vir
tually the first substantial in
formation on the enormity of
the political espionage net
work.
According to the Los Ange
les Times, "a number of insi
ders, Mollenhoff unabashedly
among them, feel that he was
thie catalyst who impelled
former White House and cam
paign aide Jeb Stuart Magru
der to come clean on his
knowledge of the roles of high
administration officials — H.
R. Haldeman, John Ehrlich
man. Charles Colson and for
mer Atty. Gen. John Mitchell
— in the Watergate plotting
and financing."
Mollenhoff had written an
article predicting an indict
ment against Magruder. He
showed the piece to Magru
der. who. disturbed, shortly
after went to a federal prose
cutor and. said the Los Ange
les Times, “began unloading
what he knew, setting in mo
tion the current cascade of
disclosures, admissions and
resignations.”
Mollenhoff was possibly the
first to throw off President
Nixon’s cloak of executive
privilege. He had for one year
early in Nixon’s first term, to
the surprise and then dismay
of some newspaper col
leagues, accepted an offer to
be a presidential counsel. He
left the post in the summer of
1970. He left, he said, because
he had been promised direct
access to the President, and
did not get it.
Out of office and back at
newspapering, he was called
to testify before the Civil
Service Commission, and did.
despite the pervasive White
House protestations that
“matters of national security”
could be jeopardized.
“Some people have said
that Nixon hired me to get rid
of me,” said Mollenhoff, in
his National Press Building
office, which is strewn with
awards from the right and the
left and which has auto
graphed photographs of JFK,
and LBJ, as well as Nixon.
The job was presidential
ombudsman. He was to be a
muckraker for internal White
House problems, using the
techniques he used as a jour
nalist to help uncover such
national scandals as the TFX,
Kfl
Billie Sol Estes and Hoffa.
Mollenhof believed this a
great opportunity to give first
hand assistance to good gov
ernment. It turned out to be
heavy-handed, at least as far
as the White House staff was
concerned.
“I wouldn’t stay out of the
hair of Ehrlichman and Halde
man,” said Mollenhof. “Not
only was I honest, I was per
sistently honest. They didn’t
appreciate me because I
wasn’t one of these little jun
ior executive types from J.
Walter Thompson advertising,
one of these guys between 20
and 30 years old, like a
Dwight Chapin, who did any
thing they were told because
they owed all they had in life
to people like Haldeman and
Ehrlichman. It’s a shame.
These young guys are now
destroyed because of a couple
of power-mad bastards.”
The final straw came for
Mollenhof when he found that
the White House was planning
to have Jimmy Hoffa, former
Teamsters boss, released
from jail. Mollenhof, who
spent years on the Hoffa case
and wrote one of his six
books, "The Tentacles of
Power,” concerning corrup
tion in labor unions, was nev
er even consulted on the Hoffa
case.
From his knowledge of the
workings of the White House
staff, Mollenhof was later
able to write about the con
spiratorial secrecy (the mis
use of classification in which
red tags — which meant na
tional security — were placed
on routine political chores.)
He was the first to write
about former acting FBI di
rector L. Patrick Gray, whom
he knew at the White House in
terms of "a political hack."
He is “sorely disappointed"
in Nixon. “I thought he agreed
with me on a lot of points.
He’d give me a little ol’ -
cheerleader speech. You go
get ’em, Clark, and we ll get
something done about it. That
was in the beginning. Not only
was little done about it, but
soon I wasn't even allowed to
see the President. "
Why he was such a threat to
the White House staffers may
be seen in his bluntness at the
press conference in which
Ziegler declared that former
statements on Watergate by
the President were "inopera
tive.”
Mollenhoff shouted: "Do
you feel free to stand up there
and lie and put out misinfor
mation and come around later
and say it is all inoperative?
only one hour old when found. The child is in excellent condi
tion. If the parents are not located the baby will be offered for
adoption by the Illinois Department of Children and Family
Services. (UPI)
... You are not entitled to
any credibility at all when you
do that.”
Ziegler flushed and said,
"Next question.”
"He’s got his act down,”
says Mollenhof today. "He’s a
perfect puppet.”
Mollenhof says he is not
discouraged by his inability to
influence when in the White
House. "Hell, I believed I
could reform Jimmy Hoffa —
until he tried directly to buy
me. He said once, Every
one's got his price. What’s
yours, Clark?’ It reminded me
of Ehrlichman and Haldeman.
No feelings for right or
wrong. Only what is most
expedient. There was never
any effort on any of their
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parts to argue with me."
When he watched Hoffa
being carted off to prison for
tampering with juries in his
Memphis trial, Mollenhoff
said, "Jimmy, it took a long
time but it finally caught up
with you.” That’s when Hoffa
spit in his direction.
Mollenhoff sees a similar
thing happening to the Nixon
administration. Time has
caught up with it. "And it’s
now going down in flames,”
he said. "The question is, Is
it practical to be honest in
politics?’ I think Watergate
shows that it’s damn foolish to
be anything less than totally
honest.’ That’s the lesson of
Watergate.”
Mollenhoff had an early
struggle with integrity. It was
at age 20 when he was attend
ing Drake University and
working 40 hours a week as a
police reporter for the Regis
ter. He had a family, little
money and the highpoint of
his working wardrobe was the
letter sweater he earned as
captain of the football team.
A local bootlegger, whom
Mollenhoff had written about,
offered to buy him a pair of
pants. "He was on fertile
ground about me needing to
be helped out, but I wasn’t
sure of his motivations,” re
calls Mollenhoff “I gave him
some looks and I thought
Drowns saving wife
WESTWEGO, La. (UPI) -
Lawrence Parks, 44, jumped
into the Mississippi River
Thursday to save his wife,
Verinta, 30, who had fallen in.
Parks pushed her to the shore
and safety but he was caught in
an undertow. His body was
recovered an hour later.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. — Artist Don Jennins shows modeling for historical buffs by taking a photo
graph of the demolition of the south tower of the old City Hall here (left), and creating his own
version of the dying moments of the old building. The razing is to make way for a plaza for the new
$4 million, Id-story city hall building. (UPI)
about it for a minute. Then I
thought of Lincoln Steffens,
the old muckraking journalist
whom I wanted to pattern
myself after when I read his
autobiography.
"I told the bootlegger it was
tempting, but no thanks.
"From that time on, I’ve
thought before I've taken an
action how it would look in
my own autobiography. It’s
amazing how this keeps you
on the straight and narrow."
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Honorable Andrew J. Whalen,
Jr., Judge , Superior Court of
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accordance with the applicable
provisions of the Georgia
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registered office of the
Corporation is located at 115
North Sixth Street, Suite 205,
Post Office Box 198, Griffin,
Georgia, 30223, and John AA.
Cogburn, Jr. is the registered
agent at such address. The
purpose of the Corporation is to
engage in any lawful activity
for profit to its Shareholders.
The minimum capital with
which the Corporation shall
commence business is not less
than Five Thousand ($5,000.00)
Dollars.
This 30th day of AAay, 1973.
SAAALLEY, COGBURN AND
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Attorneys for ALL-STAR
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Address:
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applicable provisions »,
Georgia Business Corpo —.
Code. The registered offiu
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127 W East Solomon Stree
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GEORGIA, SPALDING
COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given that
AAary Louise Hollis, the
undersigned, filed her petition
in the Superior Court of said
county on June 7, 1973, praying
for a change in the name of
petitioner from AAary Louise
Hollis to AAary Louise Scott, and
notice is hereby given to any
interested or affected party to
be and appear in said matter in
said court on or before 10:00
o'clock a.m. on July 6, 1973, at
which time all objections to the
granting of the relief prayed for
must be filed in said court.
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