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Watergate
The message carried explosive implications
By MIKE FEINSILBER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Sandy-haired Gordon Strachan,
another of those clean-cut
youths in politics, says his
Watergate role was only that of
a messenger. But one of the
messages he delivered to his
White House boss, H.R. Hal
deman, carried explosive im
plications.
It came from Key Biscayne,
Fla., where Jeb Stuart Ma
gruder, a young man running
the Nixon re-election committee
until John N. Mitchell could
take over, said Mitchell had
approved “a sophisticated
political intelligence gathering
system.”
Presumably that included
Watergate. Magruder had just
returned from a meeting with
Mitchell in Key Biscayne, Fla.,
March 30,1972.
If Haldeman was told about
Watergate two months before
the initial wiretap break-in, did
he tell President Nixon?
Crucial Question
That becomes the crucial
question Monday when Stra
chan undergoes his first public
questioning by the Senate
Watergate Committee. He has
been granted immunity so what
he says cannot be used against
him in any future trials.
Strachan (pronounced
“strawn”) got no further than
reading his 15-page opening
statement by the conclusion of
Friday’s hearing.
By Monday, the committee
College News
WALTER E. LEACH, JR.
Walter E. Leach, Jr., of
Griffin has been named to the
spring quarter dean’s list at
Georgia Tech.
ROBERT C. DOW
Robert Cadwell Dow of
Griffin has been named to the
University of Georgia’s College
of Arts and Sciences dean’s list
for the spring quarter.
WILLIAM H. ELDER
William Harold Elder has
been named to the University of
Georgia’s College of Business
Administration spring quarter
dean’s list.
DEBORAH SHELNUTT
Deborah Shelnutt of Griffin
is one of 148 students named to
the dean’s list for the spring
quarter at the Medical College
of Georgia.
CHARLES L. MURPHY
Charles L. Murphy of Griffin
has been named to the spring
quarter dean’s list at Georgia
Tech.
RACHEL L. FLOWERS
Rachel Lynne Flowers has
been named to the spring
quarter dean’s list by the
University of Georgia’s College
of Arts and Sciences.
CONNIE B. HELMS
Connie Butler Helms received
the BS degree in science at the
82nd commencement exercises
at Georgia College in
Milledgeville. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Colon
Butler and the wife of Charles
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hopes to have President Nixon’s
response to its request for the
secret White House telephone
and office tape recordings
which would disclose exactly
what Haldeman and others told
him about Watergate.
Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of
staff and his No. 1 aide until he
resigned April 1 with Nixon’s
praise, was one of the few
officials who knew that every
thing said to Nixon in his oval
and hideaway offices was
automatically taped. Haldeman,
too, will testify next week.
Nixon was widely reported
Friday to have decided to
refuse to release the tapes.
Deputy Press Secretary Gerald
Warren said, “there is no
change in the President’s basic
decision stated in his July 7
letter” in which he refused to
make requested White House
documents available to the
committee.
Baker Optimistic
The panel could subpoena the
tapes, but Sen. Herman E.
Talmadge, D-Ga., said that
could trigger a court fight
taking years to conclude.
All the committee members
want access to the tape, but
few seem to think they will be
granted it. An exception was
Sen. Howard H. Baker, R-Tenn.
“You can characterize me as
hopelessly optimistic,” he said.
Nixon went to Camp David,
Md. to recuperate from his bout
with viral pneumonia and draft
his written reply to the tape
Wayne Helms of Fayetteville.
MARKS. WATKINS
Mark Steven Watkins has
been named to the spring
quarter dean’s list by the
University of Georgia’s College
of Business Administration. '
CATHY A. ORLOWSKI
Cathy Ann Orlowski of Griffin
received the bachelor of science
degree in physical therapy at
Georgia State University. Miss
Orlowski was named to the
dean’s list for her entire study
in physical therapy with a 4.8
scholastic record and earned
honor award of distinction. She
obtained her associates in arts
degree at King’s College,
Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., and
attended Tennessee Temple
College in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Miss Orlowski has accepted a
position as physical therapist at
Orange Memorial Hospital in
Orlando, Fla.
KEITH B. HUCKABY
Keith Barnes Huckaby has
been named to the spring
quarter dean’s list by the
University of Georgia’s College
of Arts and Sciences.
DAVID M. RHODES
David Malcolm Rhodes has
been named to the dean’s list for
the spring quarter at Georgia
Tech.
EMMA N. STARR
Emma North Starr has been
named to the spring quarter
dean’s list at the University of
Georgia’s College of Arts and
Sciences.
request. Earlier, returning to
his office from the hospital, the
President remarked to aides,
within reporters’ earshot, “any
suggestion that this President is
going to slow down or leave
this office is just plain
poppycock.”
Strachan, in his statement to
the senators, disputed Ma
gruder’s earlier testimony that
Magruder had fully briefed
Strachan about every step in
the Watergate operation.
Strachan’s job was to be the
political conduit between the
Committee to Re-elect the
President at 1701 Pennsylvania
Ave. and Haldeman, in the
White House.
Haldeman’s Denial
Haldeman has already denied
Milk prices
may fall
ATLANTA (UPI) -State Agri
culture Commissioner Tommy
Irvin Friday offered complete
cooperation with a federal price
fixing investigation that Irvin
said may bring the price of milk
down in Georgia.
Irvin said he will do all he
can to help U. S. District Attor
ney John W. Stokes Jr. conduct
his probe of possible antitrust
violations that contribute to the
price of milk being higher in
Os God and Man
Dr. Graham gets
some bum raps
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
There may be legitimate
criticism to be lodged against
evangelist Billy Graham.
One, perhaps, is that he has
betrayed his Baptist heritage of
devotion to church-state separa
tion by becoming a White
House chaplain who seems
ready to condone anything the
administration does, from war
to Watergate.
But Graham gets some bum
raps too. In fact, to this
observer, it appears that people
very often belabor him for all
the wrong reasons.
Consider, for example, his
June preaching crusade in
Atlanta. Despite a bus strike
and bad weather, he drew
crowds totaling 266,500 to
Atlanta Stadium in one week.
Nearly 10,000 of his listeners
came forward to register
“decisions for Christ.”
Did this achievement bring a
chorus of unanimous praise
from Atlanta’s resident cler
gymen? It did not.
Peter’s Performance
The Rev. Frank M. Ross of
All Saints Episcopal Church
urged his congregation to stay
away from Graham’s meetings.
“The Christian religion,” he
said portentously, “is not a
‘pop” experience. It is not an
extravaganza.”
One can only wonder what
Ross would have had to say
about the Apostle Peter’s
crowd-rousing performance in
the first Christian evangelical
sermon ever delivered —on the
day of Pentecost.
The Rev. Al Daly, youth
minister of the Lutheran
Church of the Redeemer, was
quoted by Atlanta’s news
papers, the Journal and Consti
tution, as predicting that many
of the thousands who made
“decisions for Christ” under
Graham’s influence would fall
away into disillusionment or
apathy in the let-down following
the high emotional fervor of the
crusade.
That probably will occur,
despite the well-planned follow
up efforts that are part of
every Graham crusade. But
before he offered this indict
ment of Graham’s work, Daly
The Challengers will
not be preforming at
CALHOUN ELKS LODGE
Although
The Challengers are
still performing.
under oath that he had any
advance knowledge of the
operation.
Strachan said Magruder did
not like having to report to him
since Magruder had been his
boss when Magruder worked in
the White House.
In any event, Magruder
barely mentioned his failures—
such as the failure before that
fateful March 30 meeting at
Key Biscayne to win approval
for the bugging plan—and he
liked to reserve his successes
so he could personally report on
them to Haldeman.
In one regard, Strachan
supported Magruder’s account
that the bugging plan had been
approved by Mitchell at that
meeting. When he went before
Georgia than any other state.
The commissioner said farm
ers are not to blame for the rec
ord costs but rather a ‘rebate’
system conducted by milk pro
cessors.
Under the rebate plan, proces
sors give grocerymen discounts
to stock certain milk in their
stores.
“If...the rebate practice in
Georgia (can be eliminated), it
will mean a savings to the con
sumer,” Irvin said.
possibly should have re-read
the Bth Chapter of Luke’s
gospel, in which Jesus tells of a
farmer who went out to sow
seed:
“As he scattered the seed,
some of it fell along the path,
where it was stepped on, and
the birds ate it. Some of it fell
on rocky ground, and when the
plants sprouted they dried up,
because the soil had no
moisture. Some of the seed fell
among thorns which grew up
with the plants and choked
?.em. And some seeds fell in
good soil; the plants grew and
bore much grain.”
Some Praise Graham
Jesus later explained to his
disciples that the parable
referred to the different ways
in which individuals respond to
preaching of the good news of
God’s love. He clearly included
the reaction Daly fears —
immediate enthusiasm followed
by loss of interest. But nowhere
did Jesus intimate that this was
a reason for ceasing to sow
seed —or preach the gospel to
multitudes.
There are thousands of
preachers who exhort their
congregations each Sunday to
get on the right side (meaning
their side) of social issues, such
as welfare reform or public
housing. Many of them never
say a word about the need for
deep inner change (conversion
if you prefer the term) that is
requisite for a naturally self
centered person to begin loving
his fellow man enough to fight
effectively for his welfare.
Not all of Atlanta’s prea
chers, by any means, were
snide or critical in their
comments on the Graham
crusade. It may be a sign of
our ecumenical times that some
of the warmest praise came
from Catholic priests.
“I think Graham’s doing a
great job,” said the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Donald Kiernan of St.
Jude’s Catholic Church. “He
touches and affects the lives of
a lot of people.”
Indeed he does. Whatever
follies may result from his
ambition for intimacy with
presidents, Billy Graham is one
of the great preachers of this or
any other century.
the committee, Mitchell called
Magruder’s testimony on that
point “a damnable, palpable
lie.”
Frederick C. Laßue, a close
associate of Mitchell at cam
paign headquarters, testified
Wednesday on his recollection
of the March 30 meeting, which
he also attended. He said
Mitchell remarked the bugging
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proposal was something that
didn’t have to be decided upon
that moment—disputing Mitch
ell’s claim that he rejected it
forecefully and angrily.
Robert C. Mardian, former
assistant attorney general and
later another Mitchell colleague
at the re-election committee,
recalled a meeting with Ma
gruder and Mitchell about a
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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, July 21,1973
week after the break-in.
When Magruder said $40,000
had been given G. Gordon
Liddy, the mastermind behind
the wiretapping, Mitchell,
Mardian said, expressed sur
prise. Magruder said $40,000
was “not much out of a total
budget of $250,000,” Mardian
said.
Since Mitchell did not ques-
tion Magruder, Mardian said,
he took the exchange as yet
further evidence that Mitchell
in fact had approved a $250,000
for Liddy’s schemes.
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