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lkew Pearson Memp-Go-Round

~elerzse Saturwy, Sept, 12,1964

JACK ANDERSON

ON
THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

(Copyright, 1964, by Bell-McClure Syndicate 1

JACK ANDJ3RSON SAYS:

DcaJ REYNOLDS WON'T HELP F3BI PROBE H I S

KICE(JBACK CHARGES; MCCLOSKEY EXP06E WAS CAREFULLY SCHEDULED TO

FOLLOW DEMO CONVENTION;

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By Jaok Anderson ( E d i t o r ' s Ncte--lPew Pearson i s i n Alaska,

i s written by h i s assmiate, Jack Anderson.)

In h i s Etbsenoe

tlJASHINGTCIN--Insurance m a n Don Reynolds, t h e star witness I n the

Bobby Eaker Wanda1 who keeps coming back f o r encores, has refused t o

help %hz F I get t o t h o bottom of h i s latest charges, 3

Apps?z%ntlyhetI.1 make h l s sordid confessions o n l y t o t h e S e n a t e b

No, 1 gadfly, Delaware Republican John Williams, who repeats %hem on

the Senate f l o o r .
Reynolds' l a t e s t revelation: That he paid an i l l e g a l $25,000 k i c k -

back from government contractor Matt MoCloskey i n t o the Democratic

Oatnpaigi a h a t i n 1960,

Plfccfloskey f l a t l y denied $he charge, but

President Johnson ordered the FBI t o investigate,

There i s n t t muoh r i s k that the FBI w i l l be able' t o dispute Roy+
nolds, however, as lang

as he won't answer $he investigators' ques-

tions o r show them any evidenae he may have t o back up his at;ory,
EBI agents g o t o n l y as far as his attorney, James F, Fitzgerald,
who t o l d them b1unt;ly t h a t Reynolds "was not available f o r interview."

ThZs column aeked Fltzgerald why h i s c l i m e would w a n * t o obstruct

the FBI from finding out whether h i s & o r y was t r u e ,
''S simply followed MI?.

Reynolds instructions,

'I

was a l l Fltzgerald

would say,

--DELAYED ACCUSATION--

Footnote No, l--Two months ago, Reynolds phoned ex- Ocnpessional aide William McCleod and apologized for dragging his name into the
Babby Baker affair,

Then, exultantly, Reynolds boasted: "Wait u n t i l

you ~ e e what we spring on $hem a f t e r the Democratic conventionf"

The kickback char@, which Reynolds never mentioned during h i s

lengthy testimony before the Senate Rule6 Committee, waa made publio

the week after %he Democratla uonvention,

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Footnote No, 2--Semtor Williams advised the Senate that Reynolds had asked him t o delete a name from h i s confession. Censored out was
the name o f Rep, John McMillan, D-S,C.,

who f l r s t put Reynolds

together with MoCloskey.

MoMillan surrounded himself with b r i g h t

This

young men frcfm South C a r o l i n a . who liked t o make a fast buck,

t i g h t l i t t l e c i r c l e inoluded both Bobby Baker of Piokena, S.C.,

and

Don Reynolds o f Lamar, S,C,

They worked together t o f a t t e n one

another18 pocketbooks until Reynolds turned against Baker.

--BMIND RACE RIOPS-Chatting with a group of r e t a l l clerks who were slipped through

a side door o f the White House f o r a p r i v a b v i s i t , President Johnson

t o l d them the other day t h a t the race r i o t s i n the East had been plan-

ned and provoked by an unholy alliance o f Clommunists, Ku K l u x Klansmen, a d - John Birchers.

H : : m e d the charze upon information furnished t o him by the FBI, c

He indicated, however, th& the three extremist groups had nct worked
tLgether, But a l l three hoped t o embarrass h i s administration, he
said, by i n c i t i n g violenoe and chaos.
He explained that it wits up t o l o c a l a u t h o r i t i e s t o curb t h e

r i o t i n g and punish the rioters, that no President could do more than

order the FBI t o assist t;he l o c a l lawmen,

"This i s not a police state," he said,

" e don't have a national W

poliae force.

I'

!l?he President complained that h i s c r i t i c s "yell states righes,

then blame l o c a l problems on the national administration," Johnson also delivered a moving l i t t l e speech about h i s awesome responsibility as the m a n w i t h h i s finger on the nuclear button, If
that button i s ever pressed, he said, t h e world would be plunged i n t o
a nuclear holocaust within 60 minutes,

-mSTE3ILE MUl?HERS -At

least 100 million Americans would be killed, he said, and

The scattered s u r v i v o r s would
Mothers would become s t e r i l e , o r t h e i r

another 100 million Russians would die,

i n h e r i t a contaminated world.

children would be born with two heads, he warned.

"What would t h i s prove?" demanded the President,

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He reminded h i s visitors t h a t Sen. Barry Goldwater had wanted to
send t h e M&?fnes into Cuba when Dictator C a s t r o cut o f f the water 60

the G u m t a m n o naval base.

"All we d i d was send down a l i t t l e old admiral, and he just cu6
the water o f f ,
It

s a i d Johnson,

The President twitted the Retail Clerks International President,

James Suffridge, about h i s p o l i t i c a l aredentials,

A lifelong

R e p u b l i c q S u f f r i d g e has now oome out f o r President Johnscu?,

"I thought it was about time," s a i d the President mischievously,

" t h a t 1 invited a rock-ribbed Republiuan l i k e J i m Suffridge over t o
see me,"

Johnson boasted that h i s l a t e s t p o l l s showed 32 per oent of

Suffridge*s fellow Republicans plan t c vote f o r the Democratic t i c k e t

i n Novem'aer
--EADLJXES AND FOOTNUJ?ES--

Ford Motors' Hemy Ford 111 and United A u t o Workers' V i c t o r

Reuther are on opposite sjides of the bargaining t a b l e i n the present
wage dispu.te4

E3ut while the two men square o f f economically,

Reuther's son and Ford's daughter have been slipping o f f tegether on

dates....The

Army was embarrassed t o disoover t h a t it once awarded

the bronze star for gallantry t o I t a l y l s new Communist boss, Luigi

Longo.

He received t h e medal during World Wr 11 for h i s g u e r r i l l a a

EF

operations behind the Nazi linea,

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