Letter from Washington

More, more, and still more on Watergate: Donald Segretti is the 28-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who was hired by the President’s personal lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, and the President’s appointments secretary, Dwight Chapin, to conduct sabotage operations against Democratic candidates during last year’s primaries. Some examples of his work: a letter on Senator Edmund Muskie’s letterhead, widely distributed in Florida, accusing Senator Henry Jackson of being the father of an illegitimate daughter when he was a high-school senior in Everett, Washington, in 1929. Another letter charged that Hubert Humphrey was arrested in Washington for drunken driving in 1967 and that there was a call girl in the car at the time.

Kalmbach says no one should infer anything from the fact that he destroyed finance records pertaining to the secret campaign funds he administered.

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More, more, and still more on Watergate: Donald Segretti is the 28-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who was hired by the President’s personal lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, and the President’s appointments secretary, Dwight Chapin, to conduct sabotage operations against Democratic candidates during last year’s primaries. Some examples of his work: a letter on Senator Edmund Muskie’s letterhead, widely distributed in Florida, accusing Senator Henry Jackson of being the father of an illegitimate daughter when he was a high-school senior in Everett, Washington, in 1929. Another letter charged that Hubert Humphrey was arrested in Washington for drunken driving in 1967 and that there was a call girl in the car at the time.

Kalmbach says no one should infer anything from the fact that he destroyed finance records pertaining to the secret campaign funds he administered.