Roger Stone, whom the FBI arrested this morning, was a dirty trickster for Nixon. From The New York Times, July 22, 1973.
The projects carried out were varied and imaginative. [Bart] Porter dispatched Roger Stone, the head of the District of Columbia Young Republicans, to New Hampshire to make a contribution to the McCloskey campaign on behalf of the Gay Liberation Front. (At the last moment, he balked at identifying himself as a homosexual and made the contribution in stead in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance.) Ted Brill, the 20‐year‐old chair man of the College Republicans at George Washington University, was paid $750 for six weeks in May and June, 1972, to join a group of Quakers carrying on a peace vigil in front of the White House. He was told to pass himself off as a member of the peace movement and find out “what the radicals were up to.”
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After Muskie's defeat in several spring primaries, attention began to turn to the two remaining favorites—McGovern and Humphrey. In mid‐April, Hunt told Tom Gregory to switch his volunteer duties over to McGovern headquarters at 410 First Street, S.E. In addition to the kinds of information he had wanted on Muskie, Hunt asked Gregory to provide de tailed layouts of the offices of Gary Hart and Frank Mankiewicz, McGovern's two campaign managers. And some time in late spring, Roger Stone reportedly hired Michael McMinoway, a Louisville, Ky., private detective, and dubbed him “Sedan Chair II.” Soon, the exotically named informant had obtained a job in the Humphrey campaign and was sending reports through Stone to CREEP.
Stone remains a Nixon fan. He literally has a Nixon tattoo on his back.
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