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THE CONTENTS OF THIS FOLDER WERE REVIEWED ACCORDING TO P.R.M.P.A. GUIDELINES IN LATE SEPTEMBER 2005, AND WERE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC INCREMENTALLY IN AN OPENING AT N.A.R.A. II ON NOVEMBER 16, 2005. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum A Executive Grant of-Clemency After reviewing the applications for executive clemency of the following named persons, and giving consideration to a letter of the Attorney General recommending executive clemency in each case, they are hereby granted full and unconditional pardens: Thomas William Adams Jesus Carrillo William Stewart Ahern Anthony Joseph Cash, Jr. Walker Benjamin Allen, Jr. (also known as Kingdon Ralph Allison James Shea and John Shea) David A. Aransky Felix Cepeda Larry Anthon Armitage William Edward Charles, Jr. Robert Oran Austin Leonard Ciampaglia Frank Philip Bando Francis Nicholas Cianci Peter Willoughby Barrett James Neal Claborn Ronald Edward Beaudry William Siegle Clark James Dale Blackard Delbert Eugene Clegg Lee Blocker Arthur Warren Cleveland Paul Edward Boggs Donald Angus Cleveland Vertie E. Bolyard Howard Lowell Coleman Gerald Frank Bonaroti Carlos Adolfo Conde, III Melvan Laurence Boyer Arnold Rae Condon Frank Carl Brandes Pedro Cosme Otis Calhoun Braswell (also known as Leonard Dee Brazell Pedro Cosme-Ocasio) Peter Joseph Brine Wesley Junior Cottle Bobie Dean Brockmeyer Orlando Critelli Liberato George Brodo Elton Ray Cude, Jr. Arthur Brown Charles Taylor Cureton Craig Whitney Carter Brown Aaron Bernard Curls, Jr. Edward Brown Charles F. Culver Sam Bufalo Benjamin Daitz Thomas Atlee Buss Harold Raymond Davis Amos Edward Cabaniss Ralph Diaz, Jr. Nicholas Camarata Anthony V. DiCarlo (also known as Stella Mae Dickson Nick Camarata) (now known as Joe Reed Campbell Stella Mae Irwin) Thomas Joseph Cannon George Leslie Dirigo Louis William Caprio Mortimer Dornburg Willis Burdette Carmack Donald Kenneth Downing Wayne Carr Thomas Francis Driscoll Thereby designate, direct and empower the Attorney General, as my representative, to sign each grant of pardon to Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum the persons named herein. The Attorney General shall declare that his action is the act of the President, being performed at my direction. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the Department of Justice to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this twenty-third day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-one Sand of ther Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth. Zip Richard Nixon President I certify that there are sixty-four applications for executive. clemency. granted herein. Attorney General Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential, Library and Museum B Executive Grant of Clemency After reviewing the applications for executive clemency of the following named persons, and giving consideration to a letter of the Attorney General recommending executive clemency in each case, they are hereby granted full and unconditional pardens: Roderick Paul Duffield Melvin Earl Hatley Delfin Duhaylonsod Ina Miller Hefler James Washington Dunn Leo Frederick Heine Raymond Leroy Eames, Jr. Shirley Ann Henderson William Wallace Eastman (also known as Merrill Edwin Edelston Anne Morris) Norman Robert Eggiman Roy Frederick Henny Marquid N. Elliott Manuel Hernandez George Denny Embry Willie Spurgeon Herring Dudley Craig Englett Wilbur Eugene Higgins John Henry Epps, Jr. Horace Holden, III Dan Fabrizio Sam Hood, Sr. Aldo Louis Falsetti Charles Robert Horn Guy Virgil Fisher Ronald Brete Horton Raymond A. Flax Tate Houston George Stephen Fondoulis Henry George Hrovat William Richard Forman William Edward Hubbard, II Russell Donald Freeman Cecil Aubrey Hughes Edward Roger Frick Nicolai Joffe Leon Ernest Gaillard Robert John Johanson Cedric Charles Garcia, Jr. (also known as Robert Hamrick Garrison Robert Joseph) Ramon Librado de la Garza Floyd Leon Jones Martin Benjamin Gavis Edward K. K. Kaohelaulii Harry Fredrick Gifford Sidney Kastner Walter Folsom Glenn, Jr. Harry Kaz Clarence Gowan James Franklin Keenan Arnold Harold Graf Joseph Keenan, Jr. Joseph Frank Greco Arnold Creevy Kerr Harold Benjamin Green (also known as James Columbus Green Arnold Creevy Peterson Edward Laverne Grout Carl Aloysious Kipp Wayne E. Guthrie Robert Linwood Lancaster, Jr. George Joseph Haendle Ronald Marvin Lang Loyce Waldo Hall Antonio George Lauriano James Monroe Harris George Howard Lavery Junious J. Harris Charles Wesley Layne, Jr. Thereby designate, direct and empower the Attorney General, as my representative, to sign each grant of pardon to Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum the persons named herein. The Atterney General shall declare that his action is the act of the President, being performed at my direction. In testimony whereof Thave hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the Department of Justice to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this twenty-third day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand N. Hundred and Seventy-one and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth. Richard Nixon President Icertify that there are sixty-eight applications for. executive clemency granted herein. Attorney General Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum C Executive Grant of Clemency After reviewing the applications for executive demency of the following named persons, and giving consideration to a letter of the Attorney General recommending executive clemency in each case, they are hereby granted full and unconditionalpardons: Jack Eugene Lea Elna Oskar John Henry Leaf (now known as Elna Bratke) Jimmy Jake Lee Robert Truman Outs Thomas Lee Zebbie Dee Overstreet Charles Henry Lempens Charles Daniel Painter Theodore Albin LeVander Shirley Vera Paxson Samuel Levin (nee Shirley Vera House) Harry Levy Otho Keith Pigott Troy Lewis Lindahl Manon Pinkney Kenneth L. Litz Elmer Benjamin Lee Plumley Luis Lopez-Monreal James Edward Pointer Marcel Max Lutwak Ralph William Port Robert Coroydon McCracken Donald Ernest Price Paul Robert McDonald John Carlton Pyrah Stephen James McGillicuddy Carlos Manuel Ramos Royce Woodrow McNeely Louis Reaback Salvatore Maienza Thomas McGee Reardon, Sr. Harmon Albert Marshall Harris Bethea Reynolds Harvey Levi Marshall Edmund Gale Richardson Carlos Oscar Martinez John Henry Roberts Jack LaVerne Martinson Oliver U. Robinson Bob Lee Mathews Wayne Norman Robinson Norbert Lee Matthews Domingo Gonzalez Rodriguez Jack Thomas Maxwell Luther Boyd Rogers, Jr. Jerome Cyril Mazalewski Rex Orin Rogers Harry W. Meeker Harold Ralph Kather Roll Alfredo Rodriguez Menchaca Anthony Rosario Romano John James Milne Henry Stanley Rzemieniewski Joseph Richard Miskell Monty Timothy Scates Lonnie Lee Murray Fred Angel Schmidt, Sr. Luther Ryals Musselwhite Clair Raymond Schutte Robert Warren Nay Leonard Jules Sehres Gerald Wayne Neff Dominic William Serrett Francis W. Nelson Wilbur Willis Sewell Terrance Edward Newman Arthur Joseph Silva, Jr. Karl Ochs, Jr. Maurice Russell Smeltzer Robert James Olive, Sr. Charles Herman Smith, Jr. I hereby designate, direct and empower the Atterney General, as my representative, to sign each grant ofpardo to Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum the persons named herein. The Attorney General shall declare that his action is the act of the President, being performed at my direction. An testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the Department of Justice to be affixed. Done at the City of Washing ton this twenty-third day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-one and of the Inde ependence of the United States the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth. Carty Thenk Richard Nixon President I certify that there are seventy-two applications for executive clemency granted herein. Attorney General Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum D Executive Grant of Clemency After After reviewing reviewing the applications for executive demency of the following named persons, and giving consideration to a letter of the Attorney General recommending executive clemency in each case, they are hereby granted full and unconditionalpardons: Eugene John Snyder Ben Arnold Walker Michael Grabiel Spada Donald Herbert Wanamaker LeRoy Sparrow Clifford T. Ward Fred Leo Spencer Roger Washington Asmon Floyd Spruill Roger William Werner Alfred Gwen Stephens Robert Edward Whitson Richard Henry Stowers John Bonaparte Whittington John Joseph Strate William Albert Williams Herbert John Sullivan Herman Winkler, Jr. Teddy Joseph Szymanski Don Charles Wisely Donald L. Taber Herbert Wool Harold Brooke Thompson, Jr. John Wozniak Benjamin Arthur Totten, Jr. Morris Edward Yarrow Harrison Francis Tryon James Norman Yeloushan Victor Henry Van Maren, Sr. Thomas Vincent Yeo Anthony William Viada and the unpaid portion of the fines imposed upon Henry Talemontez Gamez and Bituminous Concrete Association, Inc., are hereby remitted; and the sentences of Charles Anthony Jones, Jan Polydoor Josef Lauwers, Felix Castillo Verela and Henry. Grady Whitehead, Sr., are hereby commuted to expire at once; the sentences of John Woodrow Lewis, Louis Sachs and Ralph Sachs are hereby commuted to im- prisonment for six years; the sentence of Charles Edward Jackson is hereby com- muted to imprisonment for sixteen years; the sentence of Mario Lopez Covarrubias is hereby commuted to imprisonment for eighteen years; the sentence of Raul Gonzales Garcia is hereby commuted to imprisonment for twenty years; the sentence of Manuel Hernandez Luna is hereby commuted to imprisonment for twenty-one years; the sentences of Robert Barber, James J. Santore and Fred Stein are hereby commuted to imprisonment for twenty-five years; the sentence of Ella DeClay is hereby commuted tc imprisonment for thirty years; and the sentence of James R. Hoffa, also known as James Riddle Hoffa, is hereby commuted to six and one-half years' imprisonment upon the condition that the said James R. Hoffa not engage in direct or indirect management of any labor organization prior to March sixth, 1980, and if the aforesaid condition is not fulfilled this commutation will be null and void in its entirety and the said James R. Hoffa shall be recommitted under the original judgments of conviction to a penal instituti on designated by the Attorney General and remain until the consecutive sentences of eight years' imprisonment imposed in the Eastern District of Tennessee on March twelfth, 1964 and the five years' imprison- ment imposed in the Northern District of Illinois on July fourteenth, 1969, which consecutive sentences total thirteen years' imprisonment,, shall have been served by him in accordance with law or until he is otherwise released in accordance with law. Thereby designate, direct and empower the Attorney General, as my representative, to sign each grant of pardon to Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum the persons named herein. The Atorney General shall declare that his action is the act of the President, being performed at my direction. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed myname and caused the seal of the Department of Justice to be affixed. Done at the City of Washing ton this twenty-third day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-one and of the Inde ependence of the United States the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth. Ridil This Richard Nixon President Icertify that there are forty-nine applications for executive clemency granted herein. Attorney General Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum file, The Washington Merry-Go-Round THE WASHINGTON POST Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1973 B 15 "The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa' By Jack Anderson months later, he commuted La.) threatened to get the offi- shown to Partin in a bizarre Hoffa's sentence. Sheridan cials indicted in his home attempt to persuade him to The man who sent Jimmy suggests a presidential pardon state of Louisiana. The bribes make a phony deposition re- Hoffa to jail has charged that allegedly were intended to bribery, threats and intrigue -or alternatively, removal of canting his testimony. Movie persuade witness Partin to star Audie Murphy arranged were used in numerous at- a 17-year-old-ban against union change his testimony so Hof- to get the unsigned deposition tempts to get him out. activity by Hoffa-may be Mr. fa's conviction could be re- to the White House. Famed investigator Walter Nixon's final payoff for Hof- versed. Long personally tried When the Justice Depart- Sheridan, who headed the fa's political support. to put the neat on Partin by ment's Organized Crime Sec- "Get Hoffa Squad" under the Assassination Plot getting one of Partin's friends tion tried to submit a memo late Attorney General Robert to turn informer, claims Sheri- on Hoffa's criminal alliances Kennedy, nailed the former In 1967, Puerto Rican dan. Long allegedly promised to the Federal Parole Board, Teamsters boss on jury-tamp- Teamsters Chief Frank Cha- to get Attorney General John higher-ups at Justice blocked ering charges. Now Sheridan vez allegedly flew to Washing- Mitchell's cooperation in the it, says Sheridan. The Board has written an explosive book, ton intent on assassinating deal. denied parole to Hoffa any- "The Fall and Rise of Jimmy then Sen. Robert Kennedy, Partin subsequently was way. Hoffa," which is loaded with Walter Sheridan and their charged in an unrelated fed- In return for support in new, documented revelations. prime witness against Hoffa, eral criminal case. Sheridan 1968 from New Hampshire Among those who sought Ed Partin. Kennedy's men cites tape-recorded evidence newspaper publisher William learned of the assassination to free Hoffa, charges Sheri- that former Rep. Jimmy Mor- Loeb, alleges the book, "Loeb plot and asked the FBI for dan, were such celebrities as rison (D-La.) offered to get extracted a commitment from White House aide John Ehrl- help. They were told, however, Partin off for $50,000 and a the Nixon forces that if Mr. that the FBI had no jurisdic- ichman, Sen. Russell Long promise from Partin to recant Nixon were elected President, tion. In the end, Hoffa himself (D-La.), the late movie hero, his Hoffa testimony. Morrison the Nixon administration dissauded Chavez, and the Audie Murphy, and Mafia god- said he could fix it, according would do what it could to would-be assassin docilely sur- father Carlos Marcello. to Sheridan, through the help Hoffa." Loeb, whose Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum rendered his pistol to Hoffa. late Mayor Charles Sinagra of From a bootleg copy, here paper had been financed with A few months later, Chavez Independence, La., who was are the most newsworthy a Teamsters loan, denies the was slain by one of his own PRESERVATION COPY an in-law of the presiding fed- highlights: deal. Loeb's trouble-shooter bodyguards. eral judge, William Murray. reporter, Arthur Egan, offered A secret Justice Depart- Carlos Marcello, an under- Partin turned down the deal, Partin $100,000 from the paper ment team has explored how world ally of Hoffa, informed and Murray forcefully states if he would swear Hoffa had President Nixon can pardon an acquaintance, lawyer Ossie he was never approached by been convicted through illegal Hoffa, according to Sheridan, Brown, that he would put up anyone. wiretaps. Egan says the offer SO the tough ex-con can take $150,000 if witnesses against over the Teamsters again. As Hoffa would recant their testi- Million-Dollar Offer was all on the up and up. Footnote: My associate, Les early as September, 1969, John mony and perjure themselves. New Orleans Judge Mal- Whitten, double-checked as Ehrlichman "left word at the Brown's amazing retelling of colm O'Hara, a self-styled mes- many of the details as possible White House to go easy on the the Marcello conversation was senger boy for the Teamsters, in the Sheridan book. He was Hoffa matter because consid- tape-recorded. was prepared to get "a million able to reach most of the peo- eration was being given to When Justice Department dollars in cash" for Sheridan ple who were mentioned. All possible executive clemency officials Fred Vinson and if he would switch sides and denied any wrongdoing. The Mike Epstein began a federal help to free Hoffa. Justice Department denied action." Bad publicity made it grand jury inquiry into efforts A letter, with President harassing Partin or favoring difficult for the President to to gain Hoffa's freedom by Nixon's signature forged on Hoffa. free Hoffa in 1969, but 27 bribery, Sen. Russell Long (D- White House stationery, was © 1973, United Feature Syndicate 22 C Ex-Investigator Says Hoffa Had Aid of Ehrlichman and Chotiner WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (AP) ency, Mr. Sheridan writes that A former Justice Depart- on to sign it after Hoffa's attor- ment investigator says that ney had applied to the then Attorney General, John N. James R. Hoffa's release from Mitchell. "The usual procedure, prison followed a chronology of which takes weeks of contact- bribery, threats and political in- ing the sentencing judge, the trigue that still reaches into the United States Attorney and the White House. Government prosecutors, had Walter J. Sheridan, who been dispensed with," Mr. headed investigations of Hoffa Sheridan says. "The Criminal when the late Robert F. Ken- Division of the Department of nedy was Attorney General, Justice was not consulted." says that the Administration ha Move for Pardon Seen given Hoffa "reason to hope Mr. Sheridan asserted in the he will soon receive a pardon interview that Justice Depart- from President Nixon. "Then ment lawyers had hoped to Mr. Sheridan says, Hoffa will build a case for Hoffa's pardon be in a position to reassume by attempting to portray the control of the International Test Fleet case "as so unjust Brotherhood of Teamsters from a prosecution that Hoffa could Frank E. Fitzsimmons, the cur- be said to have been justified rent union president. in tampering with the jury." Among those who tried to Similarly, Mr. Sheridan says, help Hoffa over the years were "they are seeking to show that John D. Ehrichman, assistant to the Sun Valley case was de- the President for domestic af- fective, thus clouding the pen- 'airs, and Murray M. Chotiner, sion fund case." 1 former Nixon aide, Mr. Sheri- On a separate front, Mr. dan says in a book entitled Sheridan said, Mr. Chotiner, "The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Donald Nagle, a Department of Hoffa" Labor official, and Wiley Mr. Sheridan's contention Buchanan, former Chief of Pro- hat a group of Justice Depart- tocol, were involved in a nent lawyers have secretly ben scheme by a Boston teamster, aying the groundwork for a Nick Morrissey, to have Hoffa 1. Presidential pardon was denied exonerated through the courts. to y a spokesman for the de- Mr. Sheridan said that the artment or he said that the plan called for "setting up a и lepartment remained "com- quickie grand jury" at which S) nitted to seeing that Hoff fully Edward Grady Partin, a team- bserves the terms of his con- sters' union agent who was a H litional commutation." prime Government witness 'Political Alliance' Seen against Hoffa a decade ago, "It's a simple fact," Mr. would be expected to say that heridan said in an interview, he had not authorized the that there's a terribly obvious bugging of his car, a. crucial olitical alliance between the point in Hoffa's appeals. Administration and the teams- Denial by Chotiner ers' Union." The former agent In exchange for this reversal, f the Federal Bureau of In- Mr. Partin would be granted estigation noted that Mr. immunity from an antitrust lixon drew teamsters' support trial he faces in February, Mr. 1 the Presidential election last Sheridan said. So far, he added, ear, as in 1968. Mr. Partin has refused. Hoffa was imprisoned in the When questioned by a news- ederal penitentiary at Lewis- man, Mr. Chotiner declared, urg, Pa., in Mrch, 1967, on "This is the first I've heard NO separate convictions. He as released in December, 1971 that I ever had anything to do with it. Whoever wrote that is n a grant of clemency from resident Nixon, who stipulated a great writer of fiction." at Hoffa refrain from union Mr. Nagle acknowledged ctivity for 17 years. only that he was familiar with One of Hoffa's convictions Mr. Morrissey and had intro- temmed from the so-called duced him to Mr. Buchanan at est Fleet case in Nashville, in a political gathering for former hich he allegedly rceived Navy Secretary John H. Chafee undreds of thousands of dol- iof Rhode Island, Republican r$ in payoffs through a truck- candidate for the Senate last g company set up in his wife's year. Mr. Nagle said that, aiden name. That 1962 trial through Mr. Buchanan, he met ded in a hung jury, last two last summer with Mr. Chotiner ears later Hoffa was convicted but that in "no way" did the mpering with the jury. subject of Hoffa enter the con- Also in 1964, he was con- versation. cted of defrauding the union's Mr. Sheridan says that as ension fund of nearly $2-mil- early as September, 1969, Mr. on. Tht case involved a Florida Ehrlichman "left word to go nd concern called Sun Valley, easy on the Hoffa matter" be- cause of possible clemency ac- c. As for Hoffa's grant of clem- tion. Mr. Ehrlichman could not took only a week for Mr. Nix- be reached for comment. PRESERVATION COPY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 12/11/21 Dwithn NIXON COMMUTES HOFFA SENTENCE, CURBS UNION ROLE Teamster Served 4 Years of 13-Year Term for Jury Tampering and Fraud By FRED P. GRAHAM PRESERVATION COPY Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - - President Nixon commuted to- day the prison term of James R. Hoffa, former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa walked free from the Federal Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., after serving 4 years, 9 months and 16 days of a 13-year term Hoffa was released under a conditional commutation of sentence that specifies that he cannot "engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization" until March 6, 1980, the date his full term would have ended. President Nixon commuted the 13-year prison term-which represented an eight-year sen- tence for jury tampering and a five-year term for pension fund fraud-to six and one-half years. Because the 58-year-old for- mer chief of the ntaion's largest union was entitled to time off for good behavior, that made him eligible for release today. Will Join Family He was met on his release by Robert Crancer of St. Louis, his daughter's husband. He was clad in a baggy charcoal suit and a dark coat. He told report-: ers that he would go as quickly as possible to St. Louis to spend Christmas with his familyoduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - President Nixon commuted to- day the prison term of James R. Hoffa, former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa walked free from the Federal Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., after serving 4 years, 9 months and 16 days of a 13-year term Hoffa was released under a conditional commutation of sentence that specifies that he cannot "engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization" until March 6, 1980, the date his full term ; would have ended. President Nixon commuted , the 13-year prison term-which represented an eight-year sen- tence for jury tampering and a five-year term for pension fund fraud-to six and one-half years. Because the 58-year-old for- mer chief of the ntaion's largest union was entitled to time off for good behavior, that made him eligible for release today. Will Join Family He was met on his release by Robert Crancer of St. Louis, his daughter's husband. He was clad in a baggy charcoal suit and a dark coat. He told report- ers that he would go as quickly as possible to St. Louis to spend Christmas with his family. He will reside in Detroit, where he will have to report regularly to a Federal probation officer until 1973. Hoffa, who was voted a $75,000-a-year life- time salary as "president emeri- tus" of the teamsters' union after he resigned the presidency last June, has said that he will lecture and teach. Before today's executive clem- ency, Hoffa applied three times to the Federal Parole Board and was turned down each time. The last time, on Aug. 20, the board stressed that when his case next came up for consid- eration, in June, 1972, the board would want assurances that he PRESERVATION COPY had cut all ties to the team- sters' union. The commutation came with exceptional speed especially for the Nixon Administration, which has frequently been ac- cused of being slow to act on requests for clemency. Morris Shenker of St. Louis, his lawyer, filed a request for commutation on Dec. 16. This morning, President Nixon signed the Executive order set- ting Hoffa free. He also signed other clemency actions. Six other prisoners' sen- Continued on Page 12, Column 1 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 12 C THE NEW YORK TIMES, NIXON COMMUTES Hard-Driving Ex-Teamster Chief HOFFA SENTENCE James Riddle Hoffa By JOHN DARNTON management of any labor Ind., on St. Valentine's Day, Continued From Page 1, Col. 4 organization." 1913, the son of an impov- "This is a man who never erished coal miner who died knows when to stop. He'll Hoffa still seems to com- tences were similarly short- four years later. The family keep going up until he reach- mand the loyalty of the rank ened to time served,' SO they moved to Detroit. Hoffa quit were eligible for release today. es the 102d floor and, then, and file, epitomized by the school after the seventh The terms of 10 others were not realizing he's at the top, 5-inch buttons, reading sim- grade and worked at the shortened but not to time he'll step off and break his ply "Hoffa," that were worn loading dock of a grocery served, and the fines of two neck." That is how a friend at every convention since he warehouse for 32 cents an were remitted. described James Riddle assumed high office. And his hour. Hoffa in 1957. It was a criti- Mr. Nixon also granted par- long-time friend and succes- At 19 years of age, he led dons to 235 persons. This ac- cal year for "the little fel- sor, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, his fellow workers in a strike low," and it con- has allowed the union to tion returns voting privileges to stop the unloading of a Man tained the seeds and other civil rights to per- drift away from the central- strawberry truck. That won of both his rise sons who have served their in the ized empire that was the him his first labor contract, and his fall- terms and are free. source of Hoffa's power and and he later took his 300- News which were pride. man union into Teamsters About 15 minutes after equally spectac- "If Hoffa and Fitzsimmons Local 299. Hoffa was freed at 4 P. M., the ular. In 1957, Hoffa was are in the same room, you Justice Department's informa- can be sure who'll be doing Admired by His Men elected to the presidency of tion office announced the ac- the 1.7-million-member In- the talking," a mutual friend During those days of ar- tion and issued a statement. ternational Brotherhood of said. rests and brawls on the pick- It said that Hoffa's wife, Teamsters. With a truckdriv- Hoffa, a man of boundless et lines, he exhibited the Josephine, "is suffering from a er's iron grip, he transformed energy, used to spend hours characteristics that made him severe heart condition with at- it from a Federation of fiefs doing push-ups and weight- admired by his men: As a tendant difficulties" and noted into the biggest, strongest, lifting. His associates feared leader, he was strong. As a that he was released briefly toughest union in the coun- that confinement, unkind to negotiator, he "delivered the last April to visit her in San try. any man, would be cruel to goods." And as a teamster, Francisco. But 1957 was also the year Hoffa. he always looked as if he Terming Hoffa's prison rec- of the investigation by Sena- A Model Prisoner had just stepped out of a ord "excellent," the statement tor John L. McClellan's Se- cab. said that he had been housed lect Committee on Improper The warden at Lewisburg, Hoffa ascended to the in a minimum-security honor Activities in the Labor or where Hoffa worked in the teamsters presidency shortly unit, assigned to a clothing is- Management Field. mattress factory, found him after David Beck, the union sue detail. "He has maintained It also marked the begin- to be a model prisoner. He president for five years, was a good attitude toward super- ning of the legal complica- held considerable sway over convicted in a Seattle court visory officers and has main- tions-and a bitter fight be- the other inmates and ob- of stealing union funds. tained close family ties," it tween Hoffa and the chief tained jobs for many of them While Hoffa held the reins, added. counsel for the committee, upon their release. the union was expelled from John W. Hushen, director of Robert F. Kennedy-that led Last June, Hoffa resigned the American Federation of public information for the Jus- to the union leader's im- as union president and an- Labor and Congress of In- tice Department, said that the prisonment 10 years later on nounced that he would not dustrial Organizations on the terms of he commuation would a 13-year sentence for jury stand for re-election. Twenty- charge that it was under cor- also bar Hoffa from any con- tampering and pension fraud. one days latesr, he relin- rupt influence. nection with the teamster pen- quished his remaining posi- Hoffa was not an eloquent sion fund. A Question Remains tions of leadership, including speaker but had the reputa- Mr. Hushen said that the Yesterday, as Hoffa, now the presidency of Detroit tion of being a prodigious conditions would not affect the 58 years old, grayer and with Local 299. worker who began his day status of Hoffa's wife, who is hollowed cheeks, walked out It was this local that Hoffa at 6:30 A.M. He did not drink the $50,000-a-year director of of the penitentiary at Lewis- used, in his 39-year career, or smoke. the women's auxiliary of the burg, Pa., where he had as a springboard from the He met his wife, Jose- teamster's union's political ac- served four of those years, slums of the Middle West. phine, on a picket line. They tion group. It will also not the question was: Is he still He came to wear diamond were married in 1937. Last affect. his son, James P. Hoffa, climbing to the 102d floor? cufflinks, got a $100,000-a- April he got a five-day leave who is a teamster lawyer in If he is, then he will prob- year salary and sat in a white of absence from Lewisburg Detroit. ably chafe under the condi- leather chair in the union's to visit her when she was ill. Conditional commutations tions of his release, which glass and marble headquar- They have two children, a have rarely been granted to specify that he "cannot en- ters in Washington. son, James Phillip, and a Federal prisoners. Mr. Hushen gage in the direct or indirect Hoffa was born in Brazil, daughter, Barbara Ann. said that the department's re- search had turned up two precedents-the release of Col. I want to thank all the 1,500 prison today with champagne, move for votes," Tom Turner Rudolph Abel, the convicted guys that I lived with in prison and the festivities lasted into president of the metropoli Soviet spy whose term was over the last 57 months. the night. tan Detroit A.F.L.-C.I.O. Coun- hortened on the condition that They're a great bunch of guys." They praised President Nixon cil, said in between sips of his he return Rusia Ruse in a champagne. "I hope this was for granting him clemency. prisoner exchange, and the Ger- re- Shampagne in Detroit based on long consultation with The political implications of Hoffa's legal counsel and the lease of an imprisoned dition DETROIT, Dec. 23 (UPI)- the action, however, were not parole board." man national on the cont Detrot labor leaders celebrated ignored. that he go home. James R. Hoffa's release from "I hope this was not a political REMEMBER THE NEEDIEST! Mr. Hushen declined to S. ay if the Justice Department, be- fore deciding to recommend clemency, had followed its usual procedure of asking the opinion of the judges who had imposed the sentences. Mr. Nixon's inclusion of Hoffa in his Christmas clem- ency list could pay important political dividends. The former truck driver is still enormously popular with rank-and-file union members, and pressure for his release had come from the single most powerful Re- publican figure in the Presi- dential primary state of New Hampshire-William Loeb, pub- lisher of The Manchester Union Leader. Asked by reporters today if he thought Mr. Nixon's action was politically motivated to get teamster support and whether he planned to support Mr. Nixon for re-election, Hoffa said, "I will determine what- PRESERVATION COPY ever I'm going to do politically after I learn what the restric- tions are" on his release. Hoffa's release brought Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum IVII. action was politically motivated to get teamster support and whether he planned to support Mr. Nixon for re-election, Hoffa said, "I will determine what- ever I'm going to do politically after I learn what the restric- tions are" on his release. Hoffa's release brought to a close a long and controversial era of litigation, in which a special squad organized by the late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy brought a series of prosecutions until two convic- tions were obtained against the teamster chief. His lawyers made repeated efforts to have the convictions overturned. His first conviction came in March, 1964, when he was found guilty of tampering with a jury in Nashville, Tenn., while standing trial for an earlier charge brought by the Govern- ment. In August, 1964, he was convicted in United States Dis- trict Court in Chicago on four counts of defrauding the team- sters' pension fund of some $2- million. He entered prison on March 7, 1967. Scene at Prison LEWISBURG, Pa., Dec. 23 (UPI)-James R. Hoffa beamed and waved to his former fellow inmates as he left the peniten- tiary today. "Anyone who tells you pris- - on's not tough just isn't telling the truth," he said to newsmen. "I have spent many days in loneliness." Asked whether he would seek to return to leadership of the union, Hoffa laughed, then turned serious and replied: "I have no intention of re- turning to the teamsters. The leadership is in good hands. Frank Fitzsimmons is doing a good job." In Washington, a Justice De- partment spokesman said that Mr. Nixon had granted execu- tive clemency on the recom- mendations of the United States Parole Board's attorney and At- torney General John N. Mitchell. As Hoffa walked across a prison courtyard to two elec- tronically controlled gates, dozens of inmates in cellblocks behind him cheered his exit. "Good luck, Jimmy," they shouted. "Take it easy." Hoffa smiled broadly and PRESERVATION COPY turned back, raising a clenched fist. "O.K., fellas," he shouted back. When a guard in a tower 30 feet above opened the final gate for Hoffa's release, the former union leader was crowd- ed by newsmen and almost pushed back inside. "Hi, ya, fellas," he said. "It's good to be out. At one point, Hoffa inter- rupted questions and said: "I just want to say one thing. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1972 Hoffa Suggests Prison Boards As a Reform in Parole System By JUAN M. VASQUEZ Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, April 17- why he had been turned down James R. Hoffa, testifying be- and he learned of the refusals fore a Congressional committee by way of radio news pro- for the first time since his re- grams. lease from prison, proposed Hoffa said he and other in- today that each penitentiary mates had maintained a "box establish a parole commission S score" on those prisoners who to decide when inmates should had been paroled, predicting on be released. which ones would soon return Hoffa, former president of to prison. the International Brotherhood "Invariably, we were right of Teamsters, said that such and the parole board wrong," panels, which would each in- Hoffa said in arguing that the clude an inmate as adviser, board makes arbitrary deci- could perform a more adequate sions and often has no real job than the Federal parole knowledge of indivdual inmates. board members or examiners mates. who now make such decisions. Another witness was Dr. Wil- In an 80-minute appearance lard Gaylin, a New York City before a House Judiciary sub- psychiatrist, also an author, committee, Hoffa concentrated who conducted a two-year re- on reform of parole procedures, search project on Federal in- which the committee has found mates. to be a dominant concern of "The parole board operates Federal inmates. in a willy-nilly procedure often Associated Press Although the proposal for a quite independent of either the URGES PAROLE COMMISSIONS: James R. Hoffa testi- parole commission appeared to behavior of the convict, the fying to House Judiciary subcommittee in Washington. be novel, the underlying idea supposed purposes of incarcera- He holds copy of a booklet on how to plan a parole. -that persons who make parole tion, or even the explicit inten- decisions should be better ac- tions of the sentencing judge,' quanited with the inmates - Dr. Gaylin said. has been advocated before by Since September, the subcom- prison reformers. mittee has visited numerous pris- Hoffa, who was denied parole ons across the country. A staff three times while serving a 58- member said the current hear- PRESERVATION COPY month sentence for jury tamper- ings were the first in 42 years ing and pension fund fraud, in Congress on parole reform. said the commission should be The chairman, Representative composed of the warden, a Robert W. Kastenmeier, Demo- prison case worker and a medi- crat of Wisconsin, has drafted cal officer, with an inmate a bill that would take the board elected by other prisoners serv- out of the Department of Jus- ing as adviser without a vote. tice, inject due process into the "You cannot really fool these parole system and make parole people," Hoffa said. "They mandatory unless the board know every trick in the game." makes an evidentiary finding to The 58-year-old former union the contrary. leader, whose sentence was Another bill would abolish commuted by President Nixon the Federal Board of Parole and last December, said that in his replace it with 90 regional own case, he never found out boards. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum HOFFA CAN SPEAK ON UNION ISSUES NYTIMES 62/28/21 Justice Aide Upholds Right -Ex-Leader to Take Cash Mr. Hosner said that Hoffa's he could do and could not do. asked for clarification of what leaders in the Detroit area and ships and relations with union he would like to renew friend- Hosner today, Hoffa said that old Hoffa. During his session with Mr. year pension for the 58-year- would be equivalent to a 22- payments. The $1.7-million as a lump sum or in annual the option of taking the amount pension agreement gave him Mr. Shenker said that Hoffa's $1.7-million. the amount in a lump sum of that Hoffa had decided to take today was the first disclosure But Mr. Shenker's statement pension from the Teamsters. $75,000 a year for life as a Hoffa was entitled to draw There had been reports that union policy. have a marked change" in Pension of $1.7-Million so that over a time 111 TACL wenans. By AGIS SALPUKAS Special to The New York Times degree." DETROIT, Dec. 27-James R. Hoffa will be able to renew his many friendships in the giant teamster union and speak out Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on issues affecting the union 1 without violating the conditions & of the commutation of his sen- tence, according to a Justice almost all of the five-year term strictions since he has served being freed from the present re- would have a good chance of If he wins the appeal, he nooga in March, 1964. in a district court in Chatta- ceived a sentence of eight years ing conviction, for which he re- was a ppealing his jury tamper- Mr. Shenker said that Hoffa serve the conditions to the nth "be very cautious" and "ob- But he added that Hoffa would influenced the union or not. express an opinion, whether it conditions as allowing Hoffa to said that he interpreted the Mr. Shenker, Hoffa's lawyer, opinion, like any other citizen." "has a right to express an fluencing. He said that Hoffa ling but not necessarily as in- meaning directing and control- interpreted "managing" as He added, however, that he Department official in Wash- ington. Hoffa will also have few fi- nancial worries. His lawyer, Morris Shenker, confirmed to- day in an interview that Hoffa had decided to take his pension of $1.7-million in a lump sum. He will get $1.2-million after taxes. The former teamster leader, whose 13-year sentence for jury tampering and pension fund fraud was commuted last week by President Nixon, showed his old bounce as he briskly strode into the United States Proba- tion and Parole Office here this afternoon. After a meeting of an hour and 10 minutes, Hoffa and Charles T. Hosner, chief of the proba- tion and parole office, were uncertain about the extent of the activities in which Hoffa could participate. The conditions imposed on Continued on Page 14, Column 4 PRESERVATION COPY HE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1971 HOFFA CAN SPEAK attitude during the meeting had on the conviction for pension the parole office on the eighth fraud. offers and could take his pick. been "very responsible." floor of the Federal Building He also said that he planned to "He wants to do the right Hoffa, dressed in a dark blue in downtown Detroit. speak out on prison reform, ON UNION ISSUES thing," he said. "It was no easy overcoat and suit, a black tie Earlier, in a, news conference particularly on the way young experience to go through, with and white shirt, was in a happy at the airport, he said that he people and first offenders were his wife ill. He doesn't want to mood when he entered and lefthad received hundreds of job treated. do anything that would make Continued From Page 1, Col. 4 him go back." Hoffa also asked Mr. Hosner Hoffa by the commutation said whether he could go to Miami that he was not to "engage in next week to join his wife, direct or indirect management" Josephine, for 60 to 90 days to of any labor organization be- help her to recuperate. fore March 6, 1980. "We have to find out what Mr. Hosner said that he fore- the word indirect means," saw no major problem in grant- Hoffa said at a news conference ing the request, and that Hoffa's after the meeting. case would be transferred to Mr. Hosner, in an interview, the local parole office to which said that there was a major he would have to report once a problem in interpreting what month while he was in Florida. constituted "indirect manage- Hoffa owns an apartment in Miami and also has real estate ment," and that he would seek the advice of Lawrence M. holdings there. Traylor, the pardon attorney for But Mr. Hosner said that he the Justice Department, whose was uncertain on how to guide office helped to draft the con- Hoffa so that he did not vio- ditions. late the provision that he not Mr. Traylor, reached at his get involved in indirect man- Washington office, said that the agement of the union. word "indirect" was meant "in Hoffa, who served four years no way to hold down the right and nine and a half months in [of Hoffa] to express an opin- prison, is still very popular ion." among the rank and file and He added that Hoffa could union leaders. It is believed go to union picnics or dinners that his opinions would carry and could express an opinion in weight within the union even a speech on such current issues though he cannot now hold any as the teamster union's support official position in the 2-million of President Nixon's economic member teeamsters. He was program without violating the given the tit!t of president conditions. emeritus at the union's conven- He said, however, that it was tion last summer. "a matter of degree" and that Mr. Hosner said that he had the parole board could step in advised Hoffa to "be very care- if Hoffa "exercised an influence ful about discussing union af- so that over a time in fact we fairs." have a marked change" in He added, however, that he union policy. interpreted "managing" as There had been reports that meaning directing and control- Hoffa was entitled to draw ling but not necessarily as in- $75,000 a year for life as a fluencing. He said that Hoffa pension from the Teamsters. "has a right to express an But Mr. Shenker's statement opinion, like any other citizen." today was the first disclosure Mr. Shenker, Hoffa's lawyer, that Hoffa had decided to take said that he interpreted the the amount in a lump sum of conditions as allowing Hoffa to $1.7-million. express an opinion, whether it Mr. Shenker said that Hoffa's influenced the union or not. pension agreement gave him But he added that Hoffa would PRESERVATION COPY the option of taking the amount "be very cautious" and "ob- as a lump sum or in annual serve the conditions to the nth payments. The $1.7-million degree." to a 22- Mr. Shenker said that Hoffa Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum ine former NY TIMES 12/25/71 Hoffa Promises Granddaughter a Horse ST. LOUIS, Dec. 24 (AP)— 57 months in prison. He lost James R. Hoffa walked with 22 pounds. his 8-year-old granddaughter He was asked if he thought a stipulation in his parole that down a tree-lined street in the he not participate in the run- suburb of Glendale the day be- ning of the union until 1980 fore Christmas and they talked was fair. He paused, said, "I about Black Gold. don't know," and continued That is the riding horse he walking hand in hand with Barbara Jo. bought her while he was still He said he "would certainly in Federal prison at Lewisburg, want to" continue his life's Pa. The former teamsters' union work in labor, but added: "I president was released yester- don't know until we see the day when President Nixon details of the stipulations." commuted his 13-year sentence Will Report Monday on jury tampering and mail fraud convictions. He said he was to report As they strolled along, he in Monday to parole officials in a windbraker and khaki pants, Detroit, where he will make his home. they waved to neighbors who were outdors on the mild holi- "The only thing we know about the conditions of the day morning. "You will have a horse," said parole is what we've read in Hoffa to Barbara Jo Crancer, the papers," he said. his granddaughter. "A quarter "It's very difficult to know horse. He still needs some your family's growing up, the breaking in. The picture is children getting older and here, the horse will be here in your wife is sick," he said. the spring." "We're appreciative of the fact He had disclosed his Christ- that he [Nixon] saw fit to re- lease me so I could be with mas gift early. Quarter horses, so-called for my family." their high speed at short dis- Mrs. Hoffa, who had a heart tances (about a quarter of a attack earlier this year and reportedly had a mild seizure mile), were developed on West- ern ranges for great endurance Wednesday night, was cheer- ful as she served coffee to under the saddle. newsmen. She gave some im- Comes Down Whistling promptu kisses to her husband. Hoffa, 58, chatted with news- "I never gave up hope," she men even while his attorney, said. "We give grateful thanks Morris Shenker, was saying to President Nixon." there would be no interviews. Three previous appeals for As he eame downstairs to parole had been denied. meet them after a night's "This is the nicest Christ- sleep at his daughter's home, mas we've ever had," she said he was whistling. last night after her husband "You look just like a little arrived. kid," said Josephine, his wife. But Hoffa. did not hear her. He was talking about the fre- quent diet of sauerkraut, beans and pork he ate during his PRESERVATION COPY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum WASH. EVE. STAN Hoffa Allowed to 12/28/72 Talk On Teamster Issues New York Times News Service would seek the advice of Law- next week to join his wife, DETROIT-James R. Hoffa rence M. Traylor, the pardon Josephine, for 60 to 90 days to will be able to renew his many attorney for the Justice De- help her to recuperate. friendships in the giant Team- partment, whose office helped Hosner said that he foresaw ster Union and speak out on draft the conditions. no major problem in granting issues affecting the union with- Traylor, reached at his the request, and that Hoffa's out violating the conditions of Washington office, said that case would be transferred to the commutation of his sen- the word "indirect" meant "in the local parole office to which tence, according to a Justice no way to hold down the right he would have to report once a Department official in Wash- (of Mr. Hoffa) to express an month while he was in Flori- ington. opinion." da. Hoffa will have few financial He added that Hoffa could Management Problem worries. His lawyer, Morris go to union picnics or dinners and that he could express an Hoffa owns an apartment in Shenker, confirmed yesterday Miami and also has real estate that Hoffa had decided to take opinion in a speech on such current issues as the Teamster holdings there. his pension of $1.7 million in a But Hosner said that he was lump sum. He will get $1.2 Union's support of Nixon's ec- million after taxes. onomic program without vio- uncertain on how to guide Hof- fa so that he did not violate The former Teamster lead- lating the conditions. the provision of his commuta- er, whose 13-year sentence for Impact to Be Weighed tion that he not get involved in jury tampering and pension He said, however, that it indirect management of the fund fraud was commuted last union. week by President Nixon, was "a matter of degree" and showed his old bounce as he that the Parole Board could Hoffa, who served 57 months in prison, is still very popular briskly strode into the U.S. step in if Hoffa "exercised an Probation and Parole Office influence so that over a time, in the union. It is believed that yesterday.. in fact, we have a marked his opinions would carry change" in union policy. weight within it even though After a meeting of an hour During his session with Hos- he cannot hold any official po- and 10 minutes, Hoffa and ner Hoffa said that he would sition and could not do any- Charles T. Hosner, chief of the like to renew friendships and thing in an official capacity to Probation and Parole Office, relations with union leaders in influence Teamsters. He was were uncertain about the ex- the Detroit area and asked for given the title of president tent of the activities in which clarification of what he could emeritus at the Teamster con- Hoffa could participate. do and could not do. vention last summer. The un- PRESERVATION COPY The conditions imposed on ion has two million members. Hosner said that Hoffa's at- Hoffa by the commutation said Hosner said that he had ad- that he was not "To engage in titude during the meeting had vised Hoffa to "be very care- direct or indirect manage- been "very responsible." ful about discussing union af- ment" of any labor organiza- "He wants to do the right fairs." tion before March 6, 1980. thing," Hosner said. "It was He added, however, that he "We have to find out what no easy experience to go interpreted "managing" as the word indirect means," through with his wife ill. He meaning directing and control- Hoffa said after the meeting. doesn't want to do anything ling but not necessarily as in- Hosner said that there was a that would make him go fluencing. He said that Hoffa major problem in interpreting back." "has a right to express an what constituted "indirect Hoffa also asked Hosner opinion, like any other citi- management," and that he whether he could go to Miami zen." Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum NYIMES WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1971 Hoffa Says Phase 2 ference, said that most of the S teamsters' pay rises had not Has 'Not Bothered' been affected by Phase Two controls. Teamster Members Frank E. Fitzsimmons, the president of the 2-million mem- ber teamster union, has been By AGIS SALPUKAS a firm supporter of President DETROIT, Dec. 28-James R. Nixon and his economic Hoffa, former president of the policies. teamsters Union, said today Hoffa, in his second meeting that Phase Two of President today with Charles T. Hosner, Nixon's economic program so the chief probation officer of far had "not bothered the the Federal Court of the East- teamsters." ern District of Michigan, further It was his first statement discussed his parole, which will ] touching on union affairs since last until March, 1973. Mr. Nixon commuted his prison Mr. Hosner gave Hoffa per- sentence last Thursday with mission to go to Miami for 90 the condition that he not en- days to be with his ailing wife, gage directly or indirectly in Josephine. During the 90 days the management of labor or- Hoffa must report to a parole ganizations until March 6, 1980. officer in Miami once a month. Lawrence M. Traylor, the Mr. Hosner said in an inter- pardon attorney for the Justice view that he saw no reason Department who helped to draft why Hoffa could not participate the terms of Hoffa's release in rank-and-file meetings of said yesterday that he did not Teamster Local 299, in Detroit. intend to prevent Hoffa from He cautioned, however, that expressing his opinions on "we would not like it if he union matters. attended a lot of meetings and Hoffa, in a short news con- began to be an influence." PRESERVATION COPY LNI ibrary and Museum WASH. EVE. 12/30/71 STAR Hoffa's Allegations Denied by Warden By DANA BULLEN were not unusual and Hoffa Star Staff Writer could have lodged such a plea. The warden in charge of the Assignment of quarters and Lewisburg, Pa., federal peni- work were decided by the pris- tentiary when James R. Hoffa on's classification committee, was imprisoned there flatly with final approval by the warden, Farkas said. "This denies Hoffa's claims that or- was not done at the orders of ders from Washington deter- Washington. These decisions mined the union leader's cell were made at the local level," or job assignments. the Bureau of Prisons official Federal officials also denied said. Hoffa's contention that he was Parker, the warden at Lew- kept in a "cage" at Lewis- isburg until 17 months ago, burg. said the prison's classification Jacob J. Parker, now war- committee was composed of den at McNeil Island peniten- the chief of classification and tiary near Takoma, Wash., parole, the supervisor of edu- said the U.S. Bureau of Pris- cation, the chief correctional ons central office was notified supervisor, the chief medical of Hoffa's assignments only officer and other staff mem- after decisions were made by bers. the warden and his staff at Hoffa, in his Detroit inter- Lewisburg. view, said his work assign- Any consultation was after ment was stuffing mattresses the fact, Parker said in an- "in a cage" seven hours a swer to questions The Star put day. to him yesterday through a "I tried to get out of there Bureau of Prisons official, but they finally told me they Gerald M. Farkas, executive had been instructed by Wash- assistant to the director of the ington not to change my work- federal prison system. ing conditions," he said. Hoffa, in a copyrighted in- Farkas denied Hoffa's work terview with The Detroit assignment had put him "in a News, claimed earlier that he cage," although he acknowl- was kept in maximum securi- edged that there was screen- ty and assigned a job that kept ing in the area to safeguard him "in a cage" for seven places where uniforms were hours a day for two years stored. and nine months on orders from Washington. "He was not completely en- closed in a cage," Farkas "Break My Spirit" said. "He was free to come "In my opinion they were and go as he pleased." He said trying to break my spirit," the mattress repair area where Hoffa worked was near said Hoffa, who was released the clothing storage area. last Thursday when President Nixon commuted his 13-year The warden who took over sentence for pension fraud and at Lewisburg during the end jury tampering after he had of Hoffa's stay there told served 4 years, 9 months and The Star that he had made it a 16 days. practice to keep the Bureau of Prisons here informed about The former Teamsters Un- Hoffa's circumstances. War- ion president, 58, blamed the den Noah Aldredge said in a treatment he received on per- telephone interview he consid- sons in the Justice Depart- ered this normal in the case of ment who were left over from the Kennedy administration. such an important prisoner. Former U.S. Atty. Gen. Rob- Aldredge said there were no ert F. Kennedy was instru- orders from Washington that mental in putting Hoffa behind he knew of about Hoffa's quar- bars. ters or job assignment. After the customary 10-day Hoffa told the Detroit News quarantine after his arrival he has taken up the crusade in March 1971, Hoffa said in for prison reform, and that the interview, he was placed he is determined to "in A Block Building, which is changes in correctional institu- the tightest security in the tions through contacts with prison, in a cell by myself legislators and judges. He has with an open front like you joined a group of prominent see in the movies." Detroit residents that yester- day announced formation of 'Wouldn't Change Me' a group to develop programs "I tried several times to get at local jail facilities. changed and they wouldn't A rough, tough product of change me. Always their an- Detroit who fought his way to swer was the order came from the top of the Teamsters, Hof- Washington not to change my fa told the Detroit News first quarters," Hoffa told the offenders should never be as- newspaper. signed to cellblocks with hard- ened criminals. After almost three years, Hoffa told the Detroit paper, His most shocking experi- he "graduated" to an "honor ences, he said, were witness- dormitory," which meant he ing gang rapes of young men had an individual cell, but by groups of inmates while with a solid door that wasn't guards stood helplessly by. PRESERVATION COPY locked SO that he could walk He said bureaucracy in the out into the hall to watch prison is "unbelievable," and television, go to the restau- that it has resulted in mass rant or the library. misery in an institution (Lew- Farkas said here that Par- isburg) built in 1952 to house ker could not recall whether 950 people, and which today Hoffa ever had unsuccessfully has a population of 1,500 with requested a change in his no expanded facilities. quarters or job assignment. He said 85 percent of the However, the official reported guards were normal people the warden said Reproducettat the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum unvugu a "I tried to get out of there Bureau of Prisons official, but they finally told me they Gerald M. Farkas, executive had been instructed by Wash- assistant to the director of the ington not to change my work- federal prison system. ing conditions," he said. Hoffa, in a copyrighted in- Farkas denied Hoffa's work terview with The Detroit assignment had put him "in a News, claimed earlier that he cage," although he acknowl- was kept in maximum securi- edged that there was screen- ty and assigned a job that kept ing in the area to safeguard him "in a cage" for seven places where uniforms were hours a day for two years stored. and nine months on orders "He was not completely en- from Washington. closed in a cage," Farkas "Break My Spirit" said. "He was free to come and go as he pleased." He said "In my opinion they were the mattress repair area trying to break my spirit," where Hoffa worked was near said Hoffa, who was released the clothing storage area. last Thursday when President The warden who took over Nixon commuted his 13-year sentence for pension fraud and at Lewisburg during the end jury tampering after he had of Hoffa's stay there told The Star that he had made it a served 4 years, 9 months and 16 days. practice to keep the Bureau of Prisons here informed about The former Teamsters Un- Hoffa's circumstances. War- ion president, 58, blamed the den Noah Aldredge said in a treatment he received on per- telephone interview he consid- sons in the Justice Depart- ered this normal in the case of ment who were left over from such an important prisoner. the Kennedy administration. Former U.S. Atty. Gen. Rob- Aldredge said there were no orders from Washington that ert F. Kennedy was instru- mental in putting Hoffa behind he knew of about Hoffa's quar- bars. ters or job assignment. Hoffa told the Detroit News After the customary 10-day quarantine after his arrival he has taken up the crusade in March 1971, Hoffa said in for prison reform, and that he is determined to effect the interview, he was placed "in A Block Building, which is changes in correctional institu- the tightest security in the tions through contacts with prison, in a cell by myself legislators and judges. He has with an open front like you joined a group of prominent see in the movies." Detroit residents that yester- day announced formation of 'Wouldn't Change Me' a group to develop programs at local jail facilities. "I tried several times to get changed and they wouldn't A rough, tough product of change me. Always their an- Detroit who fought his way to swer was the order came from the top of the Teamsters, Hof- Washington not to change my fa told the Detroit News first quarters," Hoffa told the offenders should never be as- newspaper. signed to cellblocks with hard- ened criminals. After almost three years, Hoffa told the Detroit paper, His most shocking experi- he "graduated" to an "honor ences, he said, were witness- dormitory," which meant he ing gang rapes of young men had an individual cell, but by groups of inmates while with a solid door that wasn't guards stood helplessly by. locked SO that he could walk He said bureaucracy in the out into the hall to watch prison is "unbelievable," and television, go to the restau- that it has resulted in mass rant or the library. misery in an institution (Lew- Farkas said here that Par- isburg) built in 1952 to house ker could not recall whether 950 people, and which today Hoffa ever had unsuccessfully has a population of 1,500 with requested a change in his no expanded facilities. quarters or job assignment. He said 85 percent of the However, the official reported guards were normal people the warden said such requests not intent on hurting anybody. Another 10 percent, Hoffa said, dedicated themselves to harassing inmates for their own personal advancement, and the remaining five percent were "outright sadists." While education is available PRESERVATION COPY in the prison, he said, it should be expanded. He said there was only one caseworker for about each 300 prisoners. The caseworker supposedly also serves in the role of counselor, Hoffa added. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 119th Year No. 363 Copyright © 1971 The Evening Star Newspaper Co. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDA EVE: ORDERS FROM WASHINGTC Caged, Hoffc By JACK CRELLIN Due to his own experience, Hoffa said, he Copyright Detroit News plans to press for prison reforms. H James R. Hoffa charged today that he was He blamed the treatment he received on per- th kept in maximum security at the Lewisburg, Pa., sons in the Justice Department who were left 91 prison and assigned to a job which kept him con- over from the Kennedy administration. Former fined in a cage for seven hours a day for almost U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy was instru- rit three years on orders from Washington. mental in putting Hoffa behind bars. ary Hoffa said he did not believe it was the people the "In my opinion they were trying to break my spirit," said Hoffa, who was released from the running the prison who were responsible, but "Washington." federal penitentiary last Thursday when President The former president of the Teamsters Union Nixon commuted his 13-year sentence for jury made his charges in an exclusive interview with tampering and pension fraud. tig the Detroit News. wit Ho the was cha tres told ton said "ho top. to a to ar indiv locke watc libra drive I parol to Fle E with shows PRESERVATION COPY It Board meetir memb emerit H the ul $1.7 m leaving TT, Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum **** er Co. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1971-52 PAGES ERS FROM WASHINGTON? Hoffa Says Due to his own experience, Hoffa said, he Seated in the law offices of his son, James P. plans to press for prison reforms. Hoffa, a Detroit attorney, the man who once ran He blamed the treatment he received on per- the nation's largest union told about his 4 years, sons in the Justice Department who were left 9 months and 16 days of confinement. over from the Kennedy administration. Former Hoffa said he was placed in maximum secu- U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy was instru- rity immediately after getting out of the custom- mental in putting Hoffa behind bars. ary quarantine after his arrival and remained Hoffa said he did not believe it was the people there 2 years and 9 months. running the prison who were responsible, but "Washington." Got Job Stuffing Mattresses The former president of the Teamsters Union "I was in A Block Building, which is the made his charges in an exclusive interview with tightest security in the prison, in a cell by myself the Detroit News. with an open front like you see in the movies," Hoffa said. "I tried several times to get changed and they wouldn't change me. Always their answer was the order came from Washington not to change my quarters." Hoffa said he was assigned to stuffing mat- tresses "in a cage" seven hours a day. "I tried to get out of there but they finally told me they had been instructed by Washing- ton not to change my working conditions," Hoffa said. He said he thought this was designed to see "how far they could go" to get him to "blow my top." But he got around it, he said, by determining to accept whatever was handed out to him. After three years, Hoffa said he "graduated" to an "honor dormitory," which meant he had an individual cell, but with a solid door that wasn't locked SO that he could walk out into the hall to watch television, go to the restaurant or the library. "But it is the pure monotony of prison that drives people crazy," he said. Will Take Wife to Florida Hoffa yesterday was given clearance by U.S. parole officials to take his ailing wife, Josephine, to Florida next week. OPRESERVATION COPY He was also granted permission to associate with union friends and appear on television shows. It appeared doubtful that the U.S. Parole Board will allow Hoffa to participate in union meetings even though he still holds his union membership card and has the title of "president emeritus." Hoffa yesterday revealed that he had taken the union pension due him in a lump sum of $1.7 million, of which $500,000 went for taxes, leaving him with $1.2 million. Under the terms of Nixon's commutation, Reproduced at the Richard union management mental in putting Hoffa behind bars. ary quarantine after his arrival and remained Hoffa said he did not believe it was the people eak my there 2 years and 9 months. om the "Washington." running the prison who were responsible, but Got Job Stuffing Mattresses esident The former president of the Teamsters Union or jury made his charges in an exclusive interview with "I was in A Block Building, which is the the Detroit News. tightest security in the prison, in a cell by myself with an open front like you see in the movies," Hoffa said. "I tried several times to get changed and they wouldn't change me. Always their answer was the order came from Washington not to change my quarters." Hoffa said he was assigned to stuffing mat- tresses "in a cage" seven hours a day. "I tried to get out of there but they finally told me they had been instructed by Washing- ton not to change my working conditions," Hoffa said. He said he thought this was designed to see "how far they could go" to get him to "blow my top." But he got around it, he said, by determining to accept whatever was handed out to him. After three years, Hoffa said he "graduated" to an "honor dormitory," which meant he had an individual cell, but with a solid door that wasn't locked so that he could walk out into the hall to watch television, go to the restaurant or the library. "But it is the pure monotony of prison that drives people crazy," he said. Will Take Wife to Florida Hoffa yesterday was given clearance by U.S. parole officials to take his ailing wife, Josephine, to Florida next week. He was also granted permission to associate with union friends and appear on television shows. It appeared doubtful that the U.S. Parole Board will allow Hoffa to participate in union meetings even though he still holds his union membership card and has the title of "president emeritus." Hoffa yesterday revealed that he had taken the union pension due him in a lump sum of $1.7 million, of which $500,000 went for taxes, leaving him with $1.2 million. Under the terms of Nixon's commutation, Hoffa cannot participate in union management at least until 1980. With money in the bank and his union ac- tivities taboo, Hoffa said he has taken up the crusade for prison reform. His own experience, he said, is etched forever on his mind and he is determined to effect changes in correctional institutions through con- tacts with legislators and judges. He feels that prisons, particularly the one at Lewisburg, are "dehumanizing" and "demoraliz- ing," with the result that they return men to soci- PRESERVATION COPY ety more bitter than when they entered the insti- tution. Clothes Issued at Random Hoffa said the "dehumanizing processes starts the moment prion gates close behind a man. The object is to make him a statistic, he as- serted. Hoffa says he was a statistic-No. 33298. For him it started when he was issued clothes at the end of his 10-day quarantine. "Those people really don't understand," said See HOFFA, Page A-7 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum HOFFA Story of Prison Life Told Continued From Page A-1 population of 1,500 with no expanded facilities. Hoffa. "They give some prisoner a used pair of Hoffa said many of his experiences with in- shoes if they feel like it. Sometimes they don't dividual guards and administrators at the prison even fit." were good. "Then they send you next door where you He said 85 percent of the guards were normal pick up your clothes. If you are 160 pounds and people not intent on hurting anybody. 6 feet tall and your waist is 32 inches they give Five Percent Called 'Sadists' you a pair of pants. Another 10 percent, Hoffa said dedicated themselves to harassing inmates for their own "The guy who comes behind you might have a 32-waist and be five feet tall (Hoffa is not much personal advancement, and the remaining five percent were "outright sadists." more that that) and he gets the same pair of Referring to the 15 percent, Hoffa described pants. All they do is crop off the legs." them as "the God-damned people whose hatred Hoffa said this is particularly distressing to creates the entire trouble where everybody hates young, first offenders who had dressed fairly well every guard." on the street. While education is available in the prison, "They put them in a frame of mind that is he said, it should be expanded. just unbelievable," he said. He said there was only one caseworker for A rough, tough product of Detroit who fought about each 300 prisoners. The caseworker sup- his way to the top of the Teamsters, Hoffa said posedly also serves in the role of counselor, Hoffa added. first offenders should never be assigned to cell- blocks with hardened criminals. "Their workload is so great that they just can't get around to every man," Hoffa said. His most shocking experiences, he said, were Hoffa lost 16 pounds in prison. He is still in witnessing gang rapes of young men by groups excellent physical shape from working out daily of inmates while guards stood helplessly by. in the gymnasium and walking in the prison yard. He said bureaucracy in the prison is "un- What about the food? believable," and that it has resulted in mass "The food they serve is good food," said misery in an institution. (Lewisburg) built in Hoffa. "Anybody can live on that food. But the 1952 to house 950 people, and which today has a way they prepare it is just unbelievable." PRESERVATION COPY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum wash. Eve. stor 1/14/22 Letters to the Editor Hoffa's Commutation SIR: After a parole board had refused twice to grant an early parole to James Hoffa, the ex-president of the Teamsters' Union who had been convicted of jury tampering, President Nixon commuted his sen- tence. Apparently the President thought this would win him votes from union members. I believe I am closer to organized labor than Nixon. I am a (retired) member of Local 189 of the American Federation of Teachers, affiliated with the AFL-CIO. I helped unions in the shoe and textile in- dustries to organize right after the 1930-32 depression, when the unions were weak and struggling. I have been arrested on the picket line on such obviously trumped up charges as blocking traffic and parading without a permit before the unions were strong enough politically to prevent such harassment of their picket lines. I have helped to raise money for strikers when the unions were weak. I just got a letter from George Meany thanking me for my testimony in favor of government health insurance, which organized labor supports. In the course of speaking tours for the NAACP I have spoken at union meetings as diverse as a steel workers' local in Gadsden, Ala., and a longshoremen's union in Lake Charles, La. I was and am proud of my son-in-law, who, until his recent death, was an organizer for the hospital workers' union. That is why I think I know more about the psychology of union members than does Nixon. Very few union members will regard pardoning a millionaire like Hoffa, who was a convicted criminal and a former union leader, as an act of friendship to- ward organized labor. They will know such an act is blatantly unjust and clearly politically motivated. Ac- tually, Nixon, in that act, has done more to under- mine the faith of the public in criminal justice than does a cop taking a bribe from a heroin pusher. Alfred Baker Lewis. Riverside, Conn. PRESERVATION COPY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum SMITH HEMPSTONE Freeing Hoffa Not One of Nixon's Great Acts President Nixon, as every- 58-year-old Hoffa served pre- in Lewisburg, Pa., penitenti- signed as president of the one knows, is a firm advocate cisely 4 years, 9 months and 16 ary? Does Nixon truly believe Teamsters last June (at which of law and order. Perhaps that days. Nixon on Dec. 23 con- that Hoffa has learned his les- point he'd been in prison for ditionally commuted Hoffa's son, is no longer a threat to is why he has taken the law sentence to six years and honest unionism and will abide more than three years), he re- into his own hands to order nine months, which made him by the condition of his release tains his union card, the title James R. Hoffa freed. eligible for immediate release. which specifies that he "can- of "president emeritus" and Nixon, in this observer's This despite the fact that the not engage in the direct or in- he has "settled" for a lump view, has tried hard to be a federal parole board had three direct management" of any sum payment of $1.7 million good president and has, in times turned down Hoffa's re- labor organization until March on his $75,000-a-year pension, large measure, succeeded. But quest for parole, most recent- 6, 1980? apparently worked out on the Because one has a certain assumption he would live to occasionally he does something ly on Aug. 20. which makes all the visceral There are a number of in- respect for the man and the be 80. It is widely held that he criticism of him, so much of teresting aspects to Nixon's office, it would be comforting continued to direct the Team- it carping and unwarranted, move. In the first place, con- to believe that the President sters from prison. ring true. And this is one of ditional commutations are rel- was so motivated. Alas, the The redemption of any indi- atively rare. They differ from mind boggles at the prospect. vidual always remains a possi- those times. In March, 1964, Jimmy Hof- reprieves in that onus of con- After all, it was Christmas bility. Perhaps Jimmy Hoffa fa was sentenced to eight viction remains. Frequently- for other federal prisoners will, as he says he intends to years in prison by a federal at least in the case of par- whose terms Nixon might have do, devote himself to a cru- court in Chattanooga for jury- dons-the sentencing judges commuted. Surely some of sade for prison reform (the tampering. In a country which and sometimes the U.S. at- them must have had spouses man who used to sport dia- professes to be guided by the torneys offices concerned are sicker than Josephine Hoffa, mond cufflinks was understand- rule of law, an attempt to asked to render their opinion, who is robust enough to draw ably appalled by prison garb a healthy $50,000-a-year salary and found penitentiary cook- abort the judicial process must a time-consuming process. Yet be one of the most serious Hoffa's attorney apparently as director of the Teamsters' ing "unbelievable"). political action group's. wom- But somehow that is hard to crimes of which a man can only appealed for executive stand accused. clemency on Dec. 16; insofar en's auxiliary. believe. Already Hoffa and his In August of the same year, as can be ascertained, it ap- While Hoffa is said to have lawyers are seeking clarifica- Hoffa, president of the 1.7 mil- been a model prisoner, the pa- tion of the restricition placed pears that neither the sentenc- role board was sufficiently on him and are trying to have lion - member International ing judges nor the U.S. attorn- Brotherhood of Teamsters, eys' offices in Chicago and concerned about his allegedly the jury-tampering conviction which had been expelled from Chattanooga were consulted. continuing ties to the union to set aside so that all such re- the AFL-CIO in 1957 as racke- Was Nixon moved to act say that it would require fur- strictions will be lifted. The ther assurances at its next man is simply too thrusting, teer-dominated, was sentenced with such haste in the Christ- in Chicago to an additional mas spirit? Was it compas- hearing (scheduled for June too combative, too able, if you five years in prison for de- sion for No. 33298's ailing wife, of this year) that these ties will, to content himself with frauding his union's pension who has a heart condition? had been served. The parole do-gooding and grandchild- fund of some $2 million. Was the President impressed board's concern was not total- coddling. Of that 13-year sentence, the by Hoffa's good behavior while ly unfounded. While Hoffa re- So Nixon, if Hoffa goes wrong again, bears a heavy burden of responsibility. As to the President's motives, one cannot ignore the fact that the Teamsters' rank and file re- mains loyal to Hoffa and this is an election year in which George Meany and the rest of organized labor are a trifle disenchanted with Nixon. It took 10 years to put Hoffa in prison. It took Nixon only seven days to okay the petition for executive clemency. If the President writes another book about the great crises he has faced, the decision to unleash Jimmy Hoffa on the Ameri- can people is unlikely to rank as one of his great acts. PRESERVATION COPY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum The White House WHA088 QULCTA206 CT MGA353 LD POB 8 EXTRA MEMPHIS TENN 23 258P CST 1971 DEC 23 PM 8 24 HON WILLIAM E TIMMONS 358P EST THE WHITE HOUSE WASHOC THE JURY SYSTEM IS THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN JUSTICE. CLEMENCY FOR HOFFA IS TANTAMOUNT TO CONDONING ITS DESTRUCTION. AM SHOCKED THAT PRESIDENT NIXON WOULD CONSIDER IT FRANK B LIDDELL JR FORMER CHAIRMAN 1968 SHELBY COUNTY NIXON FOR PRESIDENT COMMITTEE. 3 (454) FORM 0805 PRINTED BY THE STANDARD REGISTER ANY, COMPANY, U.S.A. A. 2 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Dear Mr. Liddell: This is in response to your recent telegram expressing concern over Executive Clemency for Mr. James R. Hoffa. Mr. Hoffa was one of 13 persons who received commutation of sentence by the President on December 23, 1971. The Attorney General, who is responsible for initially investigating and reviewing all petitions for Executive Clemency, cited a number of reasons in recommending to the President that he commute Mr. Hoffa's 13-year sentence to 6 1/2 years, making him eligible for immediate mandatory release. Mr. Hoffa's 4 1/2 years of confinement had considerably aggravated his wife's serious heart condition and her physicians felt that this condition would be greatly relieved if Mr. Hoffa were released from prison. During his term of confinement, Mr. Hoffa was considered a model prisoner who responded well to super- vision and whose adjustment to prison life was termed "excellent. 11 It was further felt that little would be gained by making Mr. Hoffa serve out the remaining term of his sentence, particularly since the President attached a condition to his release that he not engage in any direct or indirect management of any labor organization until March of 1980. Mr. Hoffa will also be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office until about March of 1973. I think it can be fairly stated that Mr. Hoffa's release was purely a humanitarian act on the part of the President, who felt that in view of the severity of the sentence, his 4 1/2 years of confinement, his excellent readjustment while in prison, and the conditions attached to his release, he ^ would be sufficient y to deter him from engaging in any further illegal activities. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum THE WHITE house WASHINGTON December 27, 1971 MEMORANDUM FOR: JOHN W. DEAN III FROM: WILLIAM E. TIMMONS BT Would you please furnish me with some draft language for use in replying to my friend, Frank Liddell. Thank you. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum DRAFT Dear : This is in response to your recent inquiry regarding Mr. James R. Hoffa. As you/know, may Mr. Hoffa was one of 16 persons whose sentence was #e commuted by the President on December 23, 1971. Mr. Hoffa was then His serving a 13-year sentence, which was commuted to 6 1/2 years, making him eligible for immediate release. However, Mr. Hoffa's commutation however, was/conditioned on the requirement that he not engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization prior to March 6, 1980. Any breach of this condition will result in his being recommitted to prison remainder original to serve out the duration of his h sentence. In recommending to the President that he commute Mr. Hoffa's sentence, the Attorney General considered a number of factors. The first was that he was a model prisoner during his 4 1/2 years of confinement and was considered to have an excellent attitude toward both his fellow inmates and supervisory officers. Second, Mr. Hoffa's wife is suffering from a serious heart condition with attendant difficulties, many of which were being aggravated due to his continued confinement. In April, 1971, Mr. Hoffa was granted an emergency Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum -2- - furlough from prison to visit his wife in a West Coast hospital after her attending physician had advised that her condition was critical and that Mr. Hoffa's presence at her bedside was urgently required. two Also Third and last, Mr. Hoffa had resigned from all union offices he had held and did not seek reelection as president or any other office a at the Teamsters Union Annual Convention in July, 1971. I trust this information will be of assistance to you in responding to your constituent's inquiry. Sincerely, William Timmons Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Hoffa Plans To Reside In Detroit ST. LOUIS (AP) Former Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa, released from prison last week, planned to fly to Detroit today to make his home in that city. Hoffa's attorney, Morris Shenker, said the former labor leader would confer with a pa- role official in Detroit. Shenk- er said he and Hoffa wanted to learn details of restrictions that President Nixon imposed in granting Hoffa his freedom. In commuting Hoffa's 13-year sentence for jury wash. Eve. Star 12/27/71 tampering and mail fraud to 6½ years, Nixon said Hoffa could not become involved in union management until 1980, when his prison term would have ended. Hoffa served 57 months in prison. Shenker said yesterday that Hoffa, 58, thoroughly enjoyed his Christmas holiday with his wife and family at the home of his son-in-law, Robert Cran- cer, in the St. Louis suburb of Glendale. "He's finally getting rested a little," Shenker said. Earlier, the attorney said Hoffa was not thinking about making an effort to lift the restriction on union activity. "I want to know what the full restrictions are. We're not going off the top of our head with decisions," Hoffa said. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON ACTION December 22, 1971 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM: JOHN DEAN SUBJECT: Nominees for Executive Clemency Attached are four Master Warrants containing the names of 235 nominees for pardons, 16 nominees for commutation of sentences, and 2 nominees for remission of fines, each of which has been recommended for Executive Clemency by the Attorney General. The Attorney General has also recommended that this entire group be acted upon before Christmas. I have carefully reviewed each case and agree with the Attorney General's recommendations in each instance. As you are aware, Mr. James R. Hoffa is one of the nominees for commutation of sentence. His sentence is to be commuted to six and one-half years, which will permit his immediate release, upon the condition that he not engage directly or indirectly in the management of any labor organization. The granting of these pardons and commutations will greatly reduce the backlog of qualified candidates for Executive Clemency and all individuals concerned can be notified prior to Christmas. Pursuant to normal procedures in handling Clemency actions, no press announcement is planned, but the Department of Justice will be prepared to appropriately handle questions regarding the commutation of Hoffa's sentence. RECOMMENDATION: That you sign the Master Warrants at Tabs A, B, C and D. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Dear Mrs. Erb: I am writing to acknowledge receipt and thank you for your letter to the President regarding Executive Clemency for Mr. James R. Hoffa. Your interest and concern in sharing your views with the President in this matter are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, John W. Dean, III Counsel to the President Mrs. Frederick A. Erb 649 Edgemere Court Bloomfield Hills Michigan 48013 PRESPINIE Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum ACTION December 22, 1971 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM: JOHN DEAN SUBJECT: Nominees for Executive Clemency Attached are four Master Warrants containing the names of 235 nominees for pardons, 16 nominees for commutation of sentences, and 2 nominees for remission of fines, each of which has been recommended for Executive Clemency by the Attorney General. The Attorney General has also recommended that this entire group be acted upon before Christmas. I have carefully reviewed each case and agree with the Attorney General's recommendations in each instance. As you are aware, Mr. James R. Hoffa is one of the nominees for commutation of sentence. His sentence is to be commuted to six and one-half years, which will permit his immediate release, upon the condition that he not engage directly or indirectly in the management of any labor organization. The granting of these pardons and commutations will greatly reduce the backlog of qualified candidates for Executive Clemency and all individuals concerned can be notified prior to Christmas. Pursuant to normal procedures in handling Clemency actions, no press announcement is planned, but the Department of Justice will be prepared to appropriately handle questions regarding the commutation of Hoffa's sentence. RECOMMENDATION: That you sign the Master Warrants at Tabs A, B, C and D. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 1/24/72 Dear Mrs. Copeland: Mrs. Nixon has asked me to respond and thank you for your remarks and suggestions concerning Mr. James R. Hoffa. Your interest in giving Mrs. Nixon the benefit of your views in this matter are greatly appreciated. With best wishes of the White House. Sincerely, /s/ John W. Dean, III Counsel to the President Mrs. Doris Copeland 6223 Villa Street Alexandria, Virginia 22310 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum _THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1972 Hoffa Hopes for Eventual Role As a Leader of the Teamsters MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 27 (UPI)-James R. Hoffa says he plans to get back into the labor movement and into a leader- ship position with the teamsters as soon as parole restrictions on his union activity expire. In the meantime, Hoffa said during an interview in his apartment here, he will spend his time in the promotion of prison reform and in personal business ventures. Hoffa, the former president of the International Brother- hood of Teamsters, has talked freely with reporters since Pres- ident Nixon let him out of pris- on in December on the condi- tion that he stay out of union activities until 1980. But this is the first time he has said he wants to return to a position of power in the two-million- United Press International member teamsters' union, larg- James R. Hoffa est in the nation. It is believed that, to Hoffa, by Mr. Fitzsimmons, which this means the presidency of gives them more freedom in the union, a post he held for their own areas. 14 years. He gave it up last Mr. Hoffa renewed some old June as a condition to getting union acquaintances recently the commutation that permitted when the Executive Council of him to win parole from sen- the American Federation of La- tences totaling 13 years for bor and Congress of Industrial jury tampering and mail fraud. Organizations was holding its A long-time protégé, Frank midwinter meeting at the Amr- E. Fitzsimmons, ran the union icana Hotel a few blocks from as acting president when Hoffa where Mr. Hoffa is living here went to prison in 1967, and with his ailing wife, Josephine. was elected to a five-year term He showed up twice in the as president last July after Hof- Americana lobby, talking with fa retired with a $1.7-million reporters covering the council lump-sum teamster pension. meeting and chatting with some The 59-year-old Hoffa would members of the council and oth- be 67 years old when the parole er union officials. restrictions on his union activi- But the A.F.L.-C.I.O. presi- ty expire in 1980, but he point- dent, George Meany, who led ed out that his lawyers were the move *in 1957 that ousted seeking a court order to set the teamsters from the labor aside his jury tampering con- federation on corruption viction in Chattanooga. If they charges, refused to take note are successful, the limitations of Mr. Hoffa. Mr. Meany said would be removed immediately, last year that the teamsters since he has already served would be welcomed back into enough time on the mail fraud the federation as soon as they conviction in Chicago. got rid of Mr. Hoffa. 'An Excellent Job' Hoffa said that Mr. Fitzsim- mons, 63, had done a good job is head of the teamsters and hat reports that Hoffa might already be running the team- sters' union from behind the scenes were "just absolutely not "The contracts have been ex- cellent, the membership has in- creased and he has done an excellent job," Hoffa said of his successor. The two have been close colleagues since the 1930's. Mr. Fitzsimmons, whose mild manner and taciturnity con trast sharply with Mr. Hoffa's ebullient nature, is not expecte to seek re-election after his PRESERVATION COPY present term expires in 1976. Mr. Hoffa apparently still en- joys wide support among rank- and-file teamsters, but many of the teamsters vice presidents are not anxious to have Mr. Hoffa back. They prefer the les centralized control exercized Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum July 14, 1972 ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM FOR: CHARLES COLSON FROM: JOHN DEAN Pursuant to your request I have returned Mr. Taub's call via my secretary. My secretary informed Mr. Taub that I was out of town and relayed the following message: 1. There is nothing this office can do regarding your request; 2. The matter of your client's traveling is a matter for his parole officer and the Parole Board; and 3. Because of the above reasons, no meeting will be scheduled on this matter. After reading the above message to Mr. Taub, my secretary indicates that he was quite distressed that a meeting was not being scheduled. He made many other statements to my secretary but she informed him that she knew nothing of the matter and was merely instructed to pass this message on. bcc: Henry Kissinger Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum approved 2/3/72 by JWD pent to m Fadane DRAFT RESPONSE TO HOFFA INQUIRIES Dear : This is in response to your inquiry regarding the President's recent grants of Executive Clemency. As you know, the President commuted the sentences of sixteen persons on December 23, 1971. Clemency is granted on the basis of merit, need, the individual's rehabilitation while in confinement, and the best interests of society. Each petition is considered on an individual basis. After a thorough investigation and analysis of the request for clemency, the case is reviewed by the Attorney General, who then makes his recommendation to the President. In each of these sixteen cases, it was determined that a commutation was appro- priate and consistent with the interests of society. In Mr. Hoffa's case, his thirteen year sentence was commuted to six and one half years, and with credit for statutory good time he was eligible for immediate release. The commutation was, however, conditioned on the requirement that Mr. Hoffa not engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization prior to March 6, 1980. Any breach of this condition will result in his being recommitted to prison to serve out the remainder of his original sentence. I hope this information will be of assistance to you in responding to your constituent's inquiry. Sincerely, Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum DRAFT RESPONSE TO HOFFA INQUIRIES Dear : This is in response to your inquiry regarding the President's recent grants of Executive Clemency. As you know, the President commuted the sentences of sixteen persons on December 23, 1971. Clemency is granted on the basis of merit, need, the individual's rehabilitation while in confinement, and the best interests of society. Each petition is considered on an individual basis. After a thorough investigation and analysis of the request for clemency, the case is reviewed by the Attorney General, who then makes his recommendation to the President. In each of these sixteen cases, it was determined that a commutation was appro- priate and consistent with the interests of society. In Mr. Hoffa's case, his thirteen year sentence was commuted to six and one half years, and with credit for statutory good time he was eligible for immediate release. The commutation was, however, conditioned on the requirement that Mr. Hoffa not engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization prior to March 6, 1980. Any breach of this condition will result in his being recommitted to prison to serve out the remainder of his original sentence. I hope this information will be of assistance to you in responding to your constituent's inquiry. Sincerely, Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum THE WHITE House WASHINGTON Date 1/27/72 TO: Pete Kinsey FROM: Bud McFarlane Please handle For Your Information Other Per our conversation. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum United States Senate WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510 Januany 15 PM 12 25 11, 1972 Mr. Clark MacGregor Counsel to the President for Congressional Relations The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Clark: Can you lend any assistance on the attached? Sincerely, Howaver Howard H. Baker, Jr. HHBJr:nst Enclosures 2 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum a BUILT.IN KITCHEN APPLIANCES MODERN MAID, INC. P.O. BOX 1111 CHATTANOOGA. TENNESSEE 37401 L. HARDWICK CALDWELL. JR. January 5, 1972 PRESIDENT Senator Howard Baker Senate Building Washington, D.C. RECDJAN ? Dear Howard: Many of us in our community are getting more involved in politics. I think we should do this and I'm glad to take a part in it. There are many things we don't understand, however, and from time to time, I'm going to write you, Bill Brock, Clark MacGregor, etc. and ask you to explain things in order that we might do a better job for you folks down here. One thing I can't understand is the recent commutation of Jimmy Hoffa's 13 year sentence for jury tampering efforts and union fund manipulation. There were others who had their sentences commuted at the same time. The thing we don't understand is why any official would be inclined to think that his judgment was better than that of those who tried the cases, heard the evidence, and set the length of the term. I don't expect to agree with everything that happens in the Republica Party - I don't even agree with everything that happens in my own family. On the other hand, if I'm going to work actively for it, I'd like to know the reasoning behind some of these decisions. Actually Clark MacGregor might be a better one to answer this be- cause he may have heard the President discuss it. I'll work hard for you and Bill and LaMar but I want to be sure at all times that I know why With best wishes and kindest personal regards. Sincerely, Hardwich L. H. Caldwell, Jr. LHCJr/avb CC: Senator Bill Brock CC: Mr. Clark MarcoGree at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Form DJ-96a DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (Rev. 6-22-66) ROUTING SLIP TO : NAME division building ROOM 2. 1. 3. 4. SIGNATURE COMMENT per CONVERSATION approval NECESSARY ACTION AS REQUESTED see ME note AND return note AND file RECOMMENDATION CALL NE YOUR INFORMATION ANSWER OR ACKNOWL- edge ON OR before PREPARE REPLY for the SIGNATURE OF REMARKS for Ray Revzie, white House FROM: name building & room EXT. date FRED B UGAST Dm Santarell. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Form DJ-150 (Ed. 4-26-65) UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Memorandum TO : Fred B. Ugast DATE: February 14, 1972 Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tax Division wor WDH:y1 5-17M-2710 FROM : William D. Hyatt Attorney, Criminal Section SUBJECT: Testimony of James R. Hoffa On February 11, 1972, pursuant to subpoena, James Hoffa testified for the Government in United States V. Frank Ragano (Cr. No. 71-195, Cr. Tampa). Ragano is charged with 26 U.S.C. 7206(1) for attempting to disguise a finder's fee received for obtaining a Teamster Pension Fund loan for a Mr. Rizzo, promoter of Two Seasons Development Corporation. Mr. Hoffa was questioned with regard to his knowledge of the events surrounding the granting of this loan and his association with Messrs. Ragano, Rizzo and one Cal Covens. Mr. Hoffa testified that Ragano had been his lawyer and that Ragano may have discussed or arranged loans for his clients from the Pension Fund. Mr. Hoffa had no independent recollection of any con- versations with anyone with regard to the above loan, including whether a provision was made in the loan for the amount the borrower would have to pay as a finder's fee. Mr. Hoffa did affirm the minutes of the Pension Fund meetings. He also gave some general information with regard to the operation of the Teamster Pension Fund. There was no cross-examination of Mr. Hoffa. Mr. Bernard Dempsey, Assistant United States Attorney handling the case for the Government, indicated that Hoffa was generally cooperative with the Government, although he was at first somewhat unhappy at being called. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Pete THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON we some February 10, 1972 lufo 19th M 10T MEMORANDUM FOR JOHN DEAN the Attached is page 21 from Mr. Colson's News Summary of February 10. "Are you aware of this? If so, are you following it?" Date W. Richard Howard Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 21 The House Agric. Committee approved 32-4 a multimillion-dollar rural development bill, minus Admin. plans for sharing revenue and credit Boggs says Congress will "hopefully" complete action on a number of major bills, including revenue sharing, before it adjourns. He also said "it makes it hard to legislate, we have so many messages to read. Then when we do legislate, RN vetoes it or refuses to spend the money we have allocated. 11 Camden's Antipoverty Legal Services Dir. said he "definitely" considers it his duty to confront local officials with poor-people's suits "if my clients request it and it's legally sound. 11 NBC film of 250 welfare recipients and their children who ordered steaks in the Stardust in Las Vegas and refused to pay their bill in order to protest inade- quate benefits and insufficient food stamps. No more meals for demonstrators, said the management. Four young men, believed io be Black Liberation Army members, wanted for killing two NY rookie patrolmen, are now being sought nationally. They may have been involved in other ambush slayings. Police Comm. Murphy also named 5 others, including a woman, wanted in the case. Dear you and his Hoffa has been called to testify in the income tax flu evasion trial of Tampa attorney Frank Ragano altho authorities didn't disclose the reason for the and of summons. Jimmy says he doesn't know why Is himself. (He'll be on Issues and Answers Sunday.) Prompted by the return to Chicago of the attys for Davis, Rubin, Froines, Hayden, et al, CBS con- we cluded the show with 5 minutes on the differences on campuses between '70-'71 and now when they're at their calmest point in a decade. The wave of left-wing protest of early '71 has suddenly receded. Froines said the left is humbler now and Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Toth August 4, 1971 Hall make smeons seel and his MEMORANDUM FOR: DAVID PARKER CHUCK COLSON 1/3 = and FROM: JOHN DEAN SUBJECT: Letter to President from Clark Mollenhoff I received a copy of the Mollenhoff letter of July 28, 1971 on Monday morning, August 2. I spoke with Mollenhoff on that date and we discussed the items in the letter. While I am sure that Clark would still like to meet with the President to discuss the matters, I think I can satisfy him in that I will continue to have dialogue with him on the subjects and am reading and reviewing the reams of material that he has forwarded to me on these subjects. Accordingly, I think that a short note should be written to Clark simply turning down his request to discuss these matters with the President in that my office is concerned with them and taking a thorough check into the matters. WT V KLEIN you cheab midel the outhor BEHALL KEHREI he for Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum August 4, 1971 MEMORANDUM FOR: DAVID PARKER CHUCK COLSON FROM: JOHN DEAN SUBJECT: Letter to President from Clark Mollenhoff I received a copy of the Mollenhoff letter of July 28, 1971 on Monday morning, August 2. I spoke with Mollenhoff on that date and we discussed the items in the letter. While I am sure that Clark would still like to meet with the President to discuss the matters, I think I can satisfy him in that I will continue to have dialogue with him on the subjects and am reading and reviewing the reams of material that he has forwarded to me on these subjects. Accordingly, I think that a short note should be written to Clark simply turning down his request to discuss these matters with the President in that my office is concerned with them and taking a thorough check into the matters. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum John Dean to THE WHITE HOUSE advise or WASHINGTON handled as July 30, 1971 he sles fit. MEMORANDUM FOR: DAVE PARKER FROM: MARGITA E. WHITE meet RE: Letter to President from Clark Mollenhoff Clark's letter was referred by Correspondence to our office because, as you know, we handle general media correspondence. However, you will note that Clark is seeking an appointment with the President to discuss James Hoffa and irregularities in the Hirshhorn project. Apparently he previously has tried to see the President on this. Attachment CC: John Dean III 1971 JUL 30 PM 6 02 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum DES MOINES REGISTER AND TRIBUNE HOMETOWN PAPER FOR ALL IOWA CLARK R. MOLLENHOFF NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING Bureau Chief WASHINGTON, D.C. 20004 July 28, 1971 The Honorable Richard M. Nixon The President of the United States The White House Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. President: I have made a number of efforts to see you but all have failed to materialize, which, I am sure, worked against your best interest. I feel that there are some things you should know in connection with two projects: the Hoffa matter and the Joseph Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. It would be unwise from a standpoint of good government as well as your own political fortune to free James R. Hoffa on some promise that he will not run the Teamsters Union. Anyone familiar with the background knows this is wishful thinking. It is particularly bad to provide Hoffa with a parole at this stage in the light of the testimony before the McClellan committee and other places on the harm done by early release of big figures in organized crime. The Hirshhorn project is filled with so many illegal and irregular activities by Dillon Ripley of the Smithsonian and others that I doubt if it could get a handful of votes in Congress at this stage. I am sure you have not been given the full details on these matters and realize that these cases may lack the earmarks of high-priority projects. However, I regard them as vital from a standpoint of demonstrating an active interest in promot- ing honest government. I believe that your moves in Vietnam and with regard to meeting with the Red Chinese put you in a position of having little to fear on the international issues. There is a great deal of danger with regard to domestic issues and this is likely to become worse before it gets any better. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum The Honorable Richard M. Nixon July 28, 1971 page - 2 I know that you are interested in doing what is best for the country. I believe that in any crisis the strongest thing a President has going for him is a belief in his integrity. I believe that proceeding with a parole for Jimmy Hoffa or continuing the building for Hirshhorn (a man with two criminal convictions) would seriously undermine your record. I have just completed a book on organized crime and the Strike Forces and believe the Strike Forces' accomplishments represent one of the strongest forces for your 1972 campaign. Any relaxing on Hoffa, who has been convicted of pension fraud and jury tampering, could seriously undermine your efforts to project a strong law enforcement image. I will be available at any time for discussion of the irregularities on the Hirshhorn project and the record of James R. Hoffa. I have tried to present in this letter the same non- partisan advice I would have given to you as Presidential ombudsman. Black Respectfully Clark R. Mollenhoff M yours, CRM:eb Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON July 29, 1971 MEMORANDUM FOR: JOHN DEAN we FROM: CHARLES COLSON Clark Mollenhoff has sent me the attached. I think you should make a real effort to call Clark in and try to see him. Obviously this isn't the kind of stuff that should be discussed with the President. You could set him straight, however, and listen to his tales of woe. If there is some- thing we should know about, let's look into it. Really you've taken over what Clark used to try to do. Therefore, he would probably have some confidence in talking to you. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum DES MOINES ENGISTER AND TRIBUNE HOMETOWN PAPER FOR ALL IOWA CLARK R. MOLLENHOFF NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING Bureau Chief WASHINGTON, D.C. 20004 July 28, 1971 The Honorable Richard M. Nixon The President of the United States The White House Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. President: I have made a number of efforts to see you but all have failed to materialize, which, I am sure, worked against your best interest. I feel that there are some things you should know in connection with two projects: the Hoffa matter and the Joseph Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. It would be unwise from a. standpoint of good government as well as your own political fortune to free James R. Hoffa on some promise that he will not run the Teamsters Union. Anyone familiar with the background knows this is wishful thinking. It is particularly bad to provide Hoffa with a parole at this stage in the light of the testimony before the McClellan committee and other places on the harm done by early release of big figures in organized crime. The Hirshhorn project is filled with so many illegal and irregular activities by Dillon Ripley of the Smithsonian and others that I doubt if it could get a handful of votes in Congress at this stage. I am sure you have not been given the full details on these matters and realize that these cases may lack the earmarks of high-priority projects. However, I regard them as vital from a standpoint of demonstrating an active interest in promot- ing honest government. I believe that your moves in Vietnam and with regard to meeting with the Red Chinese put you in a position of having little to fear on the international issues. There is a great deal of danger with regard to domestic issues and this is likely to become worse before it gets any better. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum The Honorable Richard M. Nixon July 28, 1971 page - 2 I know that you are interested in doing what is best for the country. I believe that in any crisis the strongest thing a President has going for him is a belief in his integrity. I believe that proceeding with a parole for Jimmy Hoffa or continuing the building for Hirshhorn (a man with two criminal convictions) would seriously undermine your record. I have just completed a book on organized crime and the Strike Forces and believe the Strike Forces' accomplishments represent one of the strongest forces for your 1972 campaign. Any relaxing on Hoffa, who has been convicted of pension fraud and jury tampering, could seriously undermine your efforts to project a strong law enforcement image. I will be available at any time for discussion of the irregularities on the Hirshhorn project and the record of James R. Hoffa. I have tried to present in this letter the same non-- partisan advice I would have given to you as Presidential ombudsman. Black Respectfully Clark R. Mollenhoff M yours, CRM:eb Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON dyes Only December 24, 1971 MEMORANDUM FOR: JOHN DEAN FROM: CHUCK COLSON we Have you been able to determine whether any previous prisoners who have had their sentences commuted have been denied parole on a series of instances ? In other words, do we have a long series of precedents on the Hoffa matter ? I think it is very important to find out. Spoke WI of Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL TREAT OF JUSTICE PEPART DEP QUI PRO DOMINA JUSTITIA BEQUITUR & 73 To: John Dean Hope Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum JAMES R. HOFFA 2420 GUARDIAN BUILDING DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48226 August 11, 1972 Mr. George A. Tensa United States Parole Board 832 Federal Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 Re: James R. Hoffa Dear Mr. Tensa: As you know a Presidential Election will take place in November, 1972. Recent political developments have led me to the strong belief that President Richard Nixon should be re-elected. I base this on a review of President Nixon's record in office, as well as a review of the record of his opponent in the forthcoming election. As an American citizen it is my desire to speak out on behalf of President Nixon. In furtherance of this effort I would like to speak to various groups of citizens, including, but not limited to groups of Union members and officers. I would also like to spread my beliefs through the communications media. I would like to know whether my participation in these activities would constitute a violation of my present parole restrictions. I would appreciate a prompt reply, so that, in the event that I am permitted to take part in these activities under my parole, I will be able to begin this endeavor at the earliest possible time. Very truly yours, Jomes James R. Hoffa Hiffa JRH/pat Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum THE WHITE HOUSE fill wASHINGTON January 6, 1972 MEMORANDUM FOR: JOHN DEAN FROM: CHUCK COLSON I was visiting with the Attorney General this afternoon on other matters and gave him the attached to read. I think you should have it for your files. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum January 5, 1972 MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE SUBJECT: Jimmy Hoffa/Clark Mollenhoff Clark Mollenhoff called me this afternoon to advise that I should read the Herling column attached. He said he strongly recommended that we send Hoffa back to jail. Coming from Mollenhoff who earlier suggested we put something in Hoffa's tea, this suggestion was not particularly startling. He went on to say he was going to start a campaign to have Hoffa re- committed; that based on his investigation, he knew there was derogatory information in Hoffa's file that the Parole Board was aware of and that was the reason his parole was denied. He also said we had been wrong by arguing that Hoffa was a model prisoner. In fact, he had tried to have federal prison personnel bribed and he, Mollenhoff, thought he could prove it. He said he didn't like to, considering himself a friend, but if he didn't someone else was going to; better that he be the one, he said. Charles W. Colson Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Tuesdays January 4, 1973 Norton John Mording Curious doing Moc! As the world has been told Nixon and Attorney General Mitchell. For one by the President himself, he is thing, by that time the latter would no longer a lawyer. Nevertheless time and again he behaves in ways be attorney general but hip-deep in the Nixon which indicate a contempt for re-election campaign. Tapes acrc the processes of the law. for Sen. Ed- So the decision was made to release Hoffa to he's not Usually this happens when say as soon as possible. But usual procedure lead- and have it he can ride the crest of public N stick. ing to a determination of executive clemency way up there. emotion and so perhaps en- calls for several time-consuming actions. of dreamers in the able him to win some momen- tary political advantage. For First, the Justice Department, which means party. Likewise and other example, he did this in ren- the Attorney General and the "pardon" attor- news 2 premature judgement in the dreadful ney, is expected to determine the attitudes of think it pays to Charles Manson once. More notably. be did the trial judge or judges toward possible clem- this by breaking into the Lieutenant Calley ency of the criminal. The Justice Depriment newest flurry of case immediately after the latter's conviction did not do this. recentiv, 3 in the MV Lai massacre. You will recall the Second. the Federal Bureau of Investigation the senator the bitter. elequent letter addressed to Mr. Nixon is expected to make a there investigation of presidential talk by the voung Army lawver who excoristed the every aspect of the case. This would include Hearing of that, President for flouring judicial and appellate consultation with the lawyers in charge of the set for Christmas. procedures. organized crime section of the Department. the tapes" zat would Now, it appears that President Nixon has The Autorney General and the pardon attorney the letter he People the repeated the pattern of injudicious conduct by falled to do this. much for the gift. greatest, most in presidential rushing thru diemenev" for Jimmy Third. the federal attorneys whose offices "I must explain Hoffa. The then WAS con- were responsible for the original prosecution how (.) made victed with three others in Chattarooza for are consulted. The Attorney General and his little while I is not SD far- obstructing justice in an effort to bribe two associates did not consult them. advice and I put 1371 jurges in à previous It 1804 some months later in July, 1934, in Chicago. Hold "Dut it lasted to be a better and SIX others were convicted o: defrauding HEN the parden attorney directed by know what Big Casino, way the Teamsters of more than 3 the Attorney General to draw up "clemency" bits by million dollars. For both crimes. Holta was paners was asked last whether he had there was serving 13 years checked with the Criminal Division of the Jus- So. became 3 tice Department he could only say "no com- and arranged the to do all the ment." attempt to escape the President does not forget a friend: "I then after 11: to the In 1960, Hoffa Richard Nixon In this outrageous way, "executive clemen- sign so much pleasure required a keep against John Kennedy. in the comune cam- was buildozed thru in six days between this paym. the President's handlers obviously feel Dec. 10 and 21. in brutal contempt or the usual And that's how ballots he might be use:ul as well. Last Amount protective procedures. Why this flogrant disre- played in France! President was dison: dinted when the Board of gard on the part of the Attorney General and nequivoca! sworn Parole for the third time turned down Natu's the White House? Obviously. the men around However. you people. it isn't will petition for parcie. The board possesses a Mr. Nixon had become leary of any possibility be somewhat do the trick. large body of damazing information on Horia's that the release of Jimmy Hoffa would be own activities, and activities carried on in his blocked bv those who, out of the fullness of friend has given me lever from an Am papers to lull the behalf. It announced that Hoffa could resubmit knowledge and civic concern. might have wife that his compar lying in the his petition next June. raised legitimate objections. So they ran thru it's unedited, and to stumble." all the warning lights, hoping that we would But June, 1972, was too late for President all be indifferent to law and order. "Dear Sirs, I have some curious would thank you if Sam Yorty of Los the worry from my a bunch of repor- B. J. Culler A list to cheer "You see, since campaign hands years ago. there his camp around. coming in and I am ship and sail with the payments on his THIS is the season that men a place for mediocrity on the Supreme Court. me what to do?" nowledge that he of the year are named. (The speech was made last year but the judg- at he's ready. He Critics are putting out lists of ing committee was too stunned to react before SHOWMAN Morris other trappings of 10 best movies and books. now.) have to he a ISS it over merely Hónors and praise flow like To President Nixon and his in-house Machia- little confused. champagne at a Rockefeller velli, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, for diplomatic wedding. He savs that think his dilem- brilliance in alienating India. the largest de- on Ice" in But things haven't gone well mineracy on earth, to support rightist dictator asked if for some famous prone in Yahva (see above). The prize consists of 3 minds. He'd like certain of their activities. plained she'd him small plaster bust of John Foster Dulles. he shouldn't given They are probably depressed The U Thant award to the statesman who and use some the of conces- That is the Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Golda for WILD would not expect Meir. Harry F. Guggenheim, President and Editor in Chief Newsday Bill Moyers, Publisher Nick Thimmesch, Syndicated Columnist Jan. 3, 1972 Dear John: Sorry I'm tardy with this, but thought you would like to see it anyway. Happy New Year! Best, nick? Richard Bixon. MOSOUM LOS ANGELES TIMES SYNDICATE in association with Newsday THE NICK THIMMESCH COLUMN RELEASE DATE: Thursday, December 30, 1971 FREED HOFFA--LIABILITY FOR NIXON? by Nick Thimmesch WASHINGTON--The Brothers Kennedy put him in jail and President Richard M. Nixon got him out. Jimmy Hoffa figured big in the politics of the Sixties, but Republicans are foolish to expect comparable gains as a result of President Nixon freeing the ex-Teamster chief at Christmastime. John F. Kennedy needed publicity and got it as a result of Robert F. Kennedy's spotlighted investigation of Hoffa before and during the 1960 election. Once John was elected, it was Robert, as attorney general, who relentlessly pursued Hoffa, finally bagging him in 1964. Bobby was so happy that he and his "Get Hoffa" squad from the Justice Department celebrated with a gleeful party in a Georgetown cafe. Bobby was presented with a wallet embossed with the words the jury foreman declared in announcing the guilty verdict. Time erodes the memory. The Kennedys were cruelly murdered. Jimmy Hoffa became gaunt and grim in federal prison. He even got sympathy when his wife, Josephine, became seriously ill, and he was given an unescorted leave to visit her last spring. The obsession with the "evil" Hoffa is only a recollection. Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell encountered no dissent at Justice in recommending that Hoffa's sentence be commuted. He also saw political benefits in 1972. One involves Hoffa's handpicked successor, Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons, who shows the same compliance as a member of the Pay Board as he always shows Hoffa. "Fitz's" tacit approval of the Administration's effort to stabilize the economy is figured as a counterweight to the fuss AFL-CIO President George Meany makes. -more- Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Los Angeles Times Syndicate Los Angeles, California Page Two THE NICK THIMMESCH COLUMN George Meany makes. (Dec. 30) Another claimed benefit might be the financial and voting support the huge ! (2 million members) Teamsters Union would give Mr. Nixon, especially in swing states like Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. All that loyalty and affection for "Jimmy," as he is known in uniondom, would pay off: in gratitude for the President's generosity. The Administration denies any such political motives. The action on Hoffa, officials say, was a result of proper petitioning, and recommendations by federal pardon attorney Lawrence M. Traylor, and Mitchell. John Dean, the White House staffer who performed the liaison work, explained: "As we looked over all the records, the Hoffa application fit in fair and square. It was done for reasons of compassion and justice. It will stand on its merits." Hoffa, who served better than one-third of his 13-year sentence, might have been a worthy candidate for commutation. But supporters of several hundred other federal prisoners and ex-prisoners hoping for commutation or pardons feel they have worthier candidates. Congressman Robert McClory (R.-ILL.) was discouraged last week when he failed again to get a full pardon for Dr. Milton Margolis, a physician who did his time for tax evasion, and who has tried for eight years to clear his name so he can regain full professional standing. The goodwill that people feel at Christmastime about presidential clemency could translate, in a few months, to the notion that Hoffa, hardly a lovable fellow, got out on a political deal. Moreover, the Teamsters Union, for all its huffing and puffing, and its fat political fund (Mrs. Josephine Hoffa is paid $40,000 annually for helping to run it), has an impressive record of ineptness in political campaigns. Finally, most Teamsters are Democrats, more interested in their pocketbooks than in "Jimmy" being out, though for some, that ain't bad either. -more- Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Los Angeles Times Syndicate Los Angeles, California Page Three THE NICK THIMMESCH COLUMN bad either. (Dec. 30) So the only possible benefit to the Administration is having Fitzsimmons on the pay board. Meanwhile, Hoffa is bound by the conditions imposed by President Nixon to steer clear of the union or union business until March 6, 1980. But in Detroit, and in other Teamster centers where Jimmy and Fitz are well known, seasoned Teamster officials admit Jimmy will soon be telling Fitz what to do. How can Fitz ever say "no" to Jimmy? The way for Hoffa to beat the March 6, 1980, prohibition, is to get a full pardon. President Nixon would hardly grant that in 1972, but after the election such an action is a possibility. If he were pardoned, Hoffa would likely take over as president of the Teamsters again. Fitzsimmons, 63, would be considered ready for early retirement, and Hoffa, now 58, would still be young enough to run the biggest and most powerful union in the nation. The Teamsters have been in disarray since Hoffa went to prison. There is a constant power struggle in the locals. The strange alliance with the United Auto Workers, once portrayed by liberals as being as noble as India (remember virtuous old India?), is falling apart. Hoffa would be a self-described natural to restore the tough leadership the Teamsters are accustomed to. President Nixon and Atty. Gen. Mitchell might get more than they bargained for in this still developing episode concerning Jimmy Hoffa. If they did it for votes, the questionable number they collect won't be worth the trouble they could run into. Copyright 1971, Newsday. Distributed by Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum WASHINGTON U.S.POSTAGE JAN-3'72 Washington Bureau Newsday 621 National Building Press Washington, D. C. 20004 a 08 ************* D.C PR METER 591301 Mr. John Dean The White House Washington, D. C. 20500 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Jimmy likes slogars. He has desk as long and shiny as a bowling alley and on top of it a little sign ORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY with this Latin phrase: "Illegitimi non Carborundum." This describes his contempt for all his opponents, Washington and when freely translated into truck-driver English cannot be printed in a family paper. A View of the World From Nobody is left in any doubt about Mr. Hoffa's preference in this elec- Jimmy Hoffa's Window tion. He prefers the defeat of Sen- ator John F. Kennedy of Massachu- By JAMES RESTON setts, He is against everybody, but WASHINGTON, April 19-The he is against Senator Kennedy most of all. loveliest view of Washingt these He blames the New Englander for days is from Jimmy Hoffa's picture vindow on the top story of the In- the Landrum-Griffin bill, which he describes as the most destructive ernational Teamsters' building on bit of anti-labor legislation since the Louisiana Avenue. From here, everything looks war, and he would gladly vote for rene. There is a velvet-green park any page boy in the Senate before below, ablaze with flowering trees, "Master John." which frame the Robert A. Taft As to the others,' the only good Memorial on a gentle slope. This thing he can say is that they are all rises to the dome of the Capitol and better than Kennedy. His view of beyond that to the columned facade the future is one of unrelieved pes- of the Supreme Court Building. simism. He sees financial trouble It is a spectacular symbol, this in the cities, and in the states and palace near the summit of American in the nation. political power, far beyond the He is worried about the Russians. dreams of (Clear It With) Sydney He is sad about juvenile delinquency. Hillman, but there is no serenity He simply doesn't understand Walter inside. Reuther in Detroit, or George Meany For the bells on the Taft Memori- of the A. F. L.C.I in Washing- al, which echo through the Team- ton. And reporters are a bunch of sters' carpeted halls every fifteen bums who exist primarily to write minutes, merely remind Jimmy of lies about the Teamsters on orders the Taft-Hartley labor law, which from their publishers. he hates; and the Capitol troubles him with memories of the Landrum- Generous Jimmy Griffin labor law, which he hates Will the 1,600,000 teamsters and even more, and the Supreme Court their families follow his political is a shadow of all his legal compli- advice? Mr. Hoffa is elaborately cations. generous about this. They can do what they damn well please, he says. The Counter-Attack The international union, he insists, Nevertheless, Jimmy is the latest does not try to tell the locals what entrant in Presidential union pol- to do. It provides information on itics. In the election of 1956 his when to register and vote. It circu- predecessor, Dave Beck, was for lates the record on good legislation President Eisenhower, but as Hoffa and bad legislation, good guys and himself describes it, "There was no bad guys, and lets the locals do organization behind Beck's prefer- what they like ence: we merely read about it in the Of course, Jimmy made a couple papers." of talks against Kennedy's efforts in This is changed now. When Jim- the Wisconsin primary election, and my isn't fighting for his life in the h will see to it that the 8,000 mem- courts, which isn't often, he makes bers of the Teamsters in West Vir- New Times york lists of rascals to kick out of office, ginia know his views before they and right now he's working on an- vote in the primary there May 10. other list of rascals to keep out of But, as he says, everybody is free to the White House. take his advice or leave it alone. To help him with this civic duty, The one man in Washington who Mr. Hoffa has created a Department resents all this more than anybody apr. of Legislation and Political Educa- else is Senator Hubert Humphrey, tion, whose slogan is "Service." It the silent candidate from Minnesota. 1960 is headed by Sidney Zagri, who is Mr. Humphrey is in no position to also in charge of something called squander votes, and he has not got "DRIVE," which, spelled out, means where he is by being beastly to "Democratic, Republican, Independ- union leaders, but since he had ent Voter Education." Jimmy for him in Wisconsin, he thinks it's only fair that Kennedy PRESERVATION COPY should have to bear the burden in West Virginia. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum ANNOUNCE CHANGE IN President the War called for to do anything in Newport; R. I., yesterday with John A. McCone, right, whom he nominated as replace- Eastern, Western and stamp a hig con- ment for Allen W. Dulles, center, retiring director* of Central Intelligence Agency. blocs, each with veto pow oney bill rewritten take over the Secretariat. ecifications. Some Western dipl forced the Senate he revised bill by Nixon'to California; PRESIDENT NAMES privately put the oppositi these proposals at as mu it 4 20 A. M. thus 70 per cent of the Assem senate only a take- choice Bars '64 Presidency Race M'CONE TO C. L. A. Solution Is Sought affected by the But they were quick to out that this opposition ncluded the new ogram, depressed- By GLADWIN HILL necessarily represent oilitation and the The New York Times, Visits Naval War College to for Western efforts to ted programs for LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27-Richard M. Nixon, an- the late Secretary Genera and the preserving nounced tönight that lie would be a candidate for Governor Announce Change-Dulles Hammarskjold with on en spaces of California next year. The former Vice President simul- dependent executive. and Successor on Hand Twelve nations, mean in Financing taneously renounced any in- intensified their effort to Sof the maneuver BAN ON COLORI LINE tention of being the Repub- come the impasse that h inge. the methods lican candidate for President proved earlier in of the United States in 1964. Transcript of remarks mude veloped in the nine days Mr. Nixon's statement said: at ceremony, Page 20. Mr. Hammarskjold was financing those IN HOUSING IS DUE in a plane crash in No The few Senators shall not be a candidate for Rhodesia. out what had hap- President of the United States By ToM WICKER At the same time, Isra for the most part Special to The New York Times. understood to have ques imounted to repear Tt of Viron's statement is NEWPORT, R. I., Sept. '27-- the suitability of Mongi passed tinancing Kennedy Order, Covering printed on Page 37, President Kennedy announced Tunisia, the Assembly the laws. today his nomination of John A. Federally Aided Projects in 1964. I shall be a candidate on. extraordinary McCone to succeed Allen W. dent, as a candidate for for Governor of the State of over the Secretary Get raditional closing: Expected by January Dulles as director of the Cen- California in 1962." duties. ards of confusion tral Intelligence Agency, by Representative The party's 1960 Presidential Mrs. Golda Meir I (The President made the an- candidate suggested that his de- Foreign Minister, and as, a Texas Demo- By PETER braestri P nouncement at an appearance enting the House cision "cleared the way" for pos- S. Comay, her chief del before the Naval War College sible 1964 candidacies of Gov. called on Adlai E. Stev ns Committee. The WASHINGTON Sept. 27 here. Mr. McCone, Mr. Dulles was accepted An. Executive order banning Nelson A. Rockefeller of New chief United States delega and Vice Admiral Bernard Aus- Appropria- discrimination in federally aided York and Senator Barry Gold- discuss the ;Secretary Ge tin, president of the war college, water of Arizona, or other as- ship. tree housing being prepared at the were with him on the stage of pirants who might emerge after Israel "Opposes Slim ocess, the commit- White House. the War College Auditorium. deeply into funds the 1962 national elections. There was no comment The timing and scope of the transit and open The decision plunges the 48- The President paid tribute to both Mr. McCone and Mr. Dul- the meeting, but the order have yet to be decided, it year lawver into a Repub- were said to have con ams. was understood Informed offi- lican primary contest with for- les, and he took pains to empha- ttle Choice cials indicated that President size that Mr. Dulles was not that Mr. Slim, as an Ara mer Gov. Goodwin J. Knight leaving the C. I. A. under du- too committed to the ut the issue to the Kennedy would probably issue and others, Should he win, there rael side in the Middle the order before Congre re- ress. only choice was to would remain a tough battle be a truly neutral head hanges or kill the convenes in January with Gov: Edmund G. Brown, a "I know of no man who is a United Nations. which carried The Federal Civil Rights Democrat who has all but mar courageous, selfless public These activities follow only for the four Contrasion it Walse aisortearned declared his candidacy for an- servant than Mr. Allen Dulles," a day the Soviet Union programs. but has virtually completed a report four-year term. the President said. He expressed posal that four designated res of other essen- on discrimination. in housing Mr. Nixon atinouncement, 'profound regret" at Mr. Dul- Secretaries share the of ment housekeeping The report, to be submitted tormade at a Jarge and elaborate les' retirement after ten years Secretary General-a pla Mr. Kennedy next week, is said news conference at the Statler as a leader in the intelligence several Western diploma Democratic leader, to contain a recommendation.file Hotel, evoked a prepared agency. ferred to as "the four M field of Montana, for an Executive order. statement from Governor Brown Of Mr. McCone, a Republican brothers." hat his men had The commission made a sim-that "Richard Nixon has sur- business man who served in Last night at a Big shellacking" and ilar plea in 1959 to President rendered to heavy pressure both the Truman and Eisen- meeting the Russians outrageous." The Eisenhower, Mr. Kennedy, dur- from Republican bosses in the hower Administrations, Mr. for a four-man office ma eader Everett Me- ing his campaign for the Presi- East to enter a contest he tried Kennedy said: of a Westerner, a Comn ksen of Illinois, dency last fall, promised to issue to avoid "He has had broad experi- an Asian and an A frica House's action an such an order and criticized Mr. Nixon's decision, whích ence. Coming once again to of the Under Secretaries the Senate. General Eisenhower for not he said he had made finally only Washington represents a real said, would be elected as Humphrey of Min- having done so, last night, ran counter to the sacrifice for him. I know that ordinator" or "executive ssistant Democratic As informed officials saw it, intentions he expressed last all of us who are concerned tary" by the others. ged that the Senate the adjournment of Congress March, when he resumed resi- with our present responsibili- It turned out today th uped by "a little meant that an anti-diserinnna- dence in his home state. Continued on Page 20, Column 3 liful men.' But all tion housing order could be Continued on Page 18, Col 'Mess in Sacramento' this time they had issued by the White House He said, however, that he had without jeopardizing key legis- become convinced that of all ders, however, said lation by inflaming Southern op- the Republican possibilities, he Cavanagh Named to County ad no intention of position had the best chance to win and Senate a chance to Coinciding with today's ad- "to clean up the mess intSacra- In Noisy Meeting of Democ bill. They said they journment was an appeal to mento, Page 33. Column Continued on Page 33, Column 3 He said the only person out- By DOUGLAS DALES side: family in whom he had confided his decision before an- Edward Cavanagh Jr., The only political off unior High Students Battle houncing it was former Presi+ Mayor Wagner's campaign man- still retains is Democrat dent Dwight D. Eisenhower. He ager, was elected çhairman of tional Committeeman, a for Hour in Newark Riot the New York County Demo- which he was re-elected conferred with General Eisen- cratic Committee at an organi- hower in Gettysburg, Pa., sev- four-year term by the New eral weeks ago and indicated zation meeting last night. delegation at the nation By MILTON HONIG tonight he expected his support. He got 1,911 votes to his op- vention last year. Asked how his move might ponent's 470, with 56 absten- Spec to The New York Times. A noisy assembly fro Sept. Four a member of the Muslim Broth- affect his titular leądership of tions. start, the meeting almo or high school stu- erhood, a militant Negro or- the party nationally, Mr. Nixon His election was a victory for solved in bedlam as Mi for an hour outside said the considered that leader- Mayor Wagner, who had welded ganization, anagh's name was pla tion today in an ship "cannot be imposed it together the old-line district nomination by Arnold The school, which was opened free a teen-age must be earned" and that his leaders and a majority of the vice chairman of the Com two years ago, has an enroll- ment of 2,000, predominantly leadership would continue to the leaders associated with the re- of New York Voters, the form movement. dispersed by fifty Negro, and is in an area known extent that his words and ac- reform group. He had es and two Fire De- tions appealed to fellow Repub- The meeting, held in the Man- drawn in favor of Mr. as the Harlem of Newark, How- gine companies that ever, the police said the dis- licans. hattan Center on någh early "yesterday. pressure hoses on Mr Nixon wearing light tele- Street, ended, at least for the order could not be called a race Mr. Fein and another vision-make-up appeared before time being, the local political ber who later nominate riot. an and two firemen The police had been called to a blinding array of television career of Carmine G. De Sapio. colm S. Mason, the che injured. Windows, lights and cameras and an, au- Mr. De Sapio, who has been both the school at 3:05 P. M by the the minority of the refor house were broken dience of more than 100. leader of New York County and tion, were greeted with principal, Dr., Harry Jellinek, nrown from roofs. He made a ten-minute state- chairman of the county com- after he and several teachers boos, shouts of derision were made. The ment of his, plans, then an- mittee, a relativelý minor post, had been calls and applause. bran and Musl in the primary for tile Choice recials indicated that met Gov, Goodwin J. Knight too committed to the ai ut the to Kennedy would probably issue leaving the C. I. A. under du- issue the and others, Should he win, there rael side in the Middle E ress. only choice was to the order before Congr would remain a tough battle be a truly neutral head hanges or kill the convenes in January "I know of no man who is a with Gove Edmund G. Brown, a United Nations. which carried The Federal Civil Rights Democrat who has all but more courageous, selfless public These activities follow only for the four Contration it was alsorlearned derlared his candidacy for an- servant than Mr. Allen Dulles," a day the Soviet Union' programs but has virtually completed a repor Uother four-year term. the President said. He expressed posal that four designated res of other essen- on discrimination in housing Mr. Nixon's abnouncement, "profound regret" at Mr. Dul- Secretaries share the off ment house keeping The report, to be submitted to made at a Jarge and elaborate les' retirement after ten years Secretary General-a pla Mr. Kennedy next week, is said news conterence at the Statler as a leader in the intelligence several Western diploma Democratic leader, to contain a recommendation Hilton Hotel, evoked a prepared agency. ferred to as "the four field of Montana, for an Executive order. statement from Governor Brown Of Mr. McCone, a Republican brothers." nat his men had The commission made a sim-that Richard Nixon has sur- business man who served in Last night at a Big shellacking" and ilar plea in 1959 to President rendered to heavy pressure both the Truman and Eisen- meeting the Russians outrageous." The Eisenhower, Mr. Kennedy, dur- from Republican bosses in the hower Administrations, Mr. for a four-man office main leader Everett Me- ing his campaign for the Presi- East to enter a contest he tried Kennedy said: of a Westerner, a Comma ksen of Illinois, dency last fall, promised to issue to avoid "He has had broad experi- an Asian and an Africar House's action an such an order and criticized Mr. Nixon's decision, which ence, Coming once again to of the Under Secretaries the Senate. General Eisenhower for not he said he had made finally only Washington represents a real said, would be elected as Humphrey of Min- having done so. last night, ran counter to the sacrifice for him. I know that ordinator" or "executive ssistant Democratic As informed officials saw it, intentions he expressed last all of us who are concerned tary" by the others. zed that the Senate the adjournment of Congress March, when he resumed resi- with our present responsibili- It turned out today the uped by "a little meant that an anti-diserimina- dence in his home state. Continued on Page 20, Column 3 tion housing order could be Continued on Page 18, Col liful men. But all 'Mess in Sacramento' this time they had issued by the White House He said, however, that he had without jeopardizing key legis- become convinced that of all ders, however. said lation by inflaming Southern op- Cavanagh Named to County J the Republican possibilities, he ad no intention of position had the best chance to win and Senate a chance to Coinciding with today's ad- "to clean up the mess intSacra- In Noisy Meeting of Democr bill. They said they journment was: an appeal to mento." Page 33. Column 1 Continued on Page 33, Column 3 He said the only person out- By DOUGLAS DALES side family in whom he had Edward F. Cavanagh Jr., The only political off confided his decision before an- unior High Students Battle Mayor Wagner's campaign man- still retains is Democrat houncing it was former Presi- ager, was elected çhairman of tional Committeeman, a dent Dwight D. Eisenhower. He for Hour in Newark Riot the New York County Demo- which he was re-elected conferred with General Eisen- cratic Committee at an organi- hower in Gettysburg, Pa., sev- four-year term by the Nev eral weeks ago and indicated zation meeting last night. delegation at the nationa tonight he expected his support. He got 1,911 votes to his op- vention last year. By MILTON HONIG Asked how his move might ponent's 470, with 56 absten- A noisy assembly fro Special to The New York Times: tions. Sept. 27-Four affect his titular leadership of start, the meeting almos a member of the Muslim Broth- erhood, a militant Negro ör- the party nationally, Mr. Nixon His election was a victory for solved in bedlam as Mr 10r high school stu said he considered that leader- Mayor Wagner, who had welded for an hour outside anagh's name was plac ganization. ation today in an The school, which was opened ship "cannot be imposed it together the old-line district nomination by Arnold L two years ago, has an enroll- must be earned" and that his leaders and a majority of the vice chairman of the Com free a teen-age leadership would, continue to the leaders associated with the re- of New York Voters, the ment of 2,000, predominantly extent that his words and ac- form movement. dispersed by fifty reform group. He had Negro, and is in an area known es and two Fire De- tions appealed to fellow Repub- The meeting, held. in the Man- drawn in favor of Mr. as the Harlem of Newark, How- gine companies that licans. hattan Center on Thirty-fourth nagh early yesterday. ever, the police said the dis- Mr. Nixon wearing light tele- Street, ended, at least for the pressure hoses on Mr. Fein, and another order could not be called a race riot. vision-make-up, appeared before time being, the local political ber who later nominate an and two firemen The police had been called to a blinding array of television career of Carmine G. De Sapio. colm S. Mason, the che the school at 3:05 P. M by the lights and cameras and an au- Mr. De Sapio, who has been both injured. Windows, the minority of the refort leader of New York County and house were broken principal, Dr. Harry Jellinek dience of more than 100. tion, were greeted with nrown from roofs. He made a ten-minute state- chairman of the county com- boos, shouts of derision after he and several teachers were made. The had been unable to-stop a fight ment of his plans, then an- mittee, a relatively- minor. post, calls and applause. held ranged from swered reporters' questions for was defeated in the primary for Last night's meeting ha between two ouths that had district leader. were girls. drawn a large group stu- twenty minutes. He invited his preceded by a series of said the disorder Mr. De Sapio performed his questioners to apreception by ences between Mayor dents who just being dis- last official act when he con- three policemen missed for the day him and Mrs. Nixon in an ad- and the district leaders ak up a fight be- jacent (parlor, remarking that vened the session and presided senting reform faction and As one of the patrolmen, Ed- until the election of Mr. Cav- nts on the street one of the advantages of private formerly loyal-and in ward Alfano, to separate Vest Kinney Junior anagh as temporary chairman. the fighters, he was attacked cases still loyal-to at West Kinney ContInued on Page 37, Column 1 Mr. De Sapio had been Dem- from béhind The attacker tore Sapio. on Streets. One of ocratic leader of New York the patrolman's holster from As part of the truce ob n was attacked by "DACRON" R IMPROVES THE FALL County since 1949 and chairman by the Mayor, the two later said he was SUIT. polyester fiber adds of the county committee for six Continued on Page 44, Column 6 extra wrinkle to wool. keeps: resistance you looking and neat." press ADVT. reten- years. Continued e extof Nixon Statementon CALIFORNIA RACE Following is the text of a But after fourteen yea a Congressman, as a Se statement by Richard M. Nixon, as Vice President of the Continued From Page 1, Col. 3 as recorded by The New York ed States, I find that my Times, announcing his intention is' not there. It is in life was being able to stage such affairs: to rùn for Governor of Califor- service, I want to be in He remarked that he had dis- nia: service and I have cond covered there was "big money" I have been greatly honored that, as far as my prese portunities to serve are in private life but that he pre- since I returned to California cerned, that the most ferred "public service." He said by the fact that many of my lenging, the most excitir he had decided that "the most fellow Californians as well as sition that I can seek challenging opportunities next to the Presidency of the United many people throughout the which I could serve ne States" would be found in Gov- country have urged me to being President of the I States itself is to be Go ernorship of "what will be the seek the governorship of this of what will be the first first state of the nation." state of this nation. Pressed for 'a Sherman-like I have reached a decision statement referring to Gen. Hopes to Unite Part William T. Sherman's classic on this question, a decision I renunciation that he would not would like to announce to- I also have reached thi clusion because I believe succumb to any 1964 draft, Mr. night. I will be able to unit Nixon said: This decision is one that m mbers of my own part think General Sherman's will disappoint many of those truct members of the statement meant that, he was who have urged me to seek cratic party and the inde not a candidate, Calvin Cool- the governorship because those ent voters im sufficient idge's statement was that he who have urged me in many hers as I have on the did not choose to run. The Nixon cases have put their request previous occasions that statement is that I shall not be on the ground that I should been a candidate for a andidate in 1964.' run for and be elected Gover- nor so that I could then run Associated Press office in this, suff Asked about 1968, he replied numbers to win. jocularly that he hoped to be for and be elected President WILL RUN: Former Vice And then I have, in C supporting re-election of the in 1964 President Riehard M. Nix- sion, this one thought to Republican elected in 1964. I cannot accept this propos- on, who announced that he with the people of this Former Governor Knight, ition, who abandoned a bid for re- Since my return to Cali- would be a candidate for and the people of the n for that matter, because election in 1958 to run vainly fornia, I have had an oppor- Governorship of California. have a stake in what for the United States Senate tunity to see first-hand some pens in California C said he looked forward in the of the problems of this state I have found that from a sal- sion with regard to W primary campaign, to a full and of its government in ary standpoint the income will try to work for as and fair discussion of vall the Sacramento, has been beyond anything I didate and what I will problems facing our state" that I reached some conclusions could ever have dreamed, and work for as Governor should not be bitter nor per- about those problems and I have found, of course, other state. sonal: those conclusions can be things in private life that are California in 1963 In regard to his prospective summed in a sentence: They very attractive. will be the first state primarys competition with Mr are difficult problems Knight. Mr. Nixon remarked The government; the State that he had sought the votes House in Sacramento is in a of Californians an five contests mess and somebody has to and had won each time. which cleani it up. We find today was better than Mr. Knight's that our government expendi- record. tures in this state are the There are upward of 1,000,000 highest in the nation and the more Democrats than Republi- efficiency. of state govern- cans in California-the margin ment is among the lowest. by which Mr. Brown beat Sena- We find law enforce- THEY'RE HER tor: William TV Knowland in ment in the state of Cali- 1958-but a big proportion in fornia is below the national both parties ignore party average. lines. We find that our education Mr. Nixon remarked that in has been short-changed be- the 1960 campaign he 'had cause the payoffs were a po- ignored "one of the smear litical boondoggling and, most campaigns by innuendo in po1- important of all, we find itical history out of respect that the jobs that are nec- for: the Presidency, but would essary to provide employ- trind any such aspersions this ment for the 250,000 new job applicants that come into this estioned on Hoffa state every year are not keep- This was in response to ques- ing pace with the new in- tions about reports that James crease in population. Hoffa, Teamsters' union leader, These are complex prob- held a $42,000 mortgal on the lems. They're a difficult homesite Mr. Nixon) originally problem. And I have reached bought in Beverly Hills. the conclusion, as I know not He replied that understood only many Republicans but the. mortgage antedated by many Democrats and inde- five years his purchase of the pendents in this state have property for $35,000, which he reached, that the amiable but çonsidered "a great deal." bungling man who presently He added . sardonically that is the Governor of this state of $4,300 it had cost colonover cannot clean. OF this mess for his files and household effect. which he is partiaily, and in from Washington, $1,000 would many instances substantially, go, to the driver members of responsible. the Teamsters Union "50 that New Leader Is Needed gives you a connec be- California needs a new Gov- tween me and Jimmy Hoffa. ernor. It needs a new leader. Of California's present Dem- And among the attributes ocratic regime, hë said it had that new Governor and new brought fiscal unbalance, defi- leader must have, in my opin- cient education and job oppor- ion. are these: tunities, a high crime rate, and He must be a man, first of a political machine composed all, who is strong enough in of "second raters." his own right that he can be Governor Brown responded independent of any pressure immediately to Mr. Nixon's group and can always speak announcement: and act for all the people of "I welcome the opportunity this state. to confront Richard Nixon in a He must be a man who is campaign that once and for all strong enough and who is re- will retire him to private life," spected enough to attract said the Governor. into state government men Governor Brown predicted and women of the very high- that the Nixon candidac would est caliber to take the posts "galvanize the Democrats of that are there to be served California into a fighting cru- and to be handled. sade" to reject "the real Nixon. And, finally, and most im- The announcement, Governor portant of all, the next Gov- Brown said, despite Mr. Nixon's ernor of this state must be a claim to the contrary, "means man who will devote not part simply that he will be a candi- but all of his energies to this date for President again in 1964, job. He canont do as Gover- He sees the Governorship of this nor [Edmund G.) Brown did state only as a. stepping. stone -be elected Governor and PRESERVATION COPY jocularly that he hoped to be for and be elected President WILL RUN: Former Vice And then I have, in supporting re-election of the in 1964 President Riehard M. Nix- sion, this one thought to Republican elected in 1961. I cannot accept this propos- on, who announced that he with the people of this Former Governor Knight, ition, who abandoned a bid for re- Since my return to Cali- would be a candidate for and the people of the n for that matter, because election in 1958 to run vainly fornia, I have had an oppor- Governorship of California. have a stake in what for the United States Senate tunity to see first-hand some pens in California-a said he looked forward in the of the problems of this state I have found that from a sal- sion with regard to w primary campaign, to a full and of its government in ary standpoint the income will try to work for as and fair discussion of vall the Sacramento, has been beyond anything I didate and what I will problems facing our state" that I reached some conclusions could ever have dreamed, and work for as Governor should not be bitter nor per- about those problems and I have found, of course, other state. sonal those conclusions can be things in private life that are California in 1963 In regard to his prospective summed in a sentence: They very attractive. will be the first state primary competition with Mr. are difficult problems. Knight. Mr. Nixon remarked The government, the State that he had sought the votes House in Sacramento is in a of Californians an five contests. mess and somebody has to and had won each time. which clean? it up We find today was better than Mr. Knight's that our government expendi- record. tures in this state are the There are upward of 1,000,000 highest in the nation and the more Democrats than Republi- efficiency of state govern- cans in California-the margin ment is among the lowest. by which Mr. Brown heat Sena- We find that law enforce- THEY'RE HER tor William FY Knowland in ment in the state of Cali- 1958 -but a big proportion in fornia is below the national both parties ignore party average. lines. We find that our education Mr. Nixon remarked that in has been short-changed be- the 1960 campaign he Chad cause the payoffs were a po- ignored "one of the worst.smear litical boondoggling and, most campaigns by innuendo' TA po1- important of all, we find itica history out of respect that the jobs that are nec- for the Presidency. but would essary to provide employ- nahli any such aspersions this ment for the 250,000 new job applicants that come into this restioned on Hoffa state every year are not keep- This was in response to ques- ing pace with the new in- tions about reports that James crease in population. Hoffa, Teamsters' union leader, These are complex prob- held a $42:000 mortge on the lems. They're a difficult homesite Mr. Nixon originally problem. And I have reached bought in Beverly Hills the conclusion, as I know not He replied that he-understood only many Republicans but the. mortgage antedated by many Democrats and inde- five years his purchase of the pendents in this state have property for $35.000, which he reached, that the amiable but considered "a great deal." bungling man who presently He added sardonically that is the Governor of this state of $4,300 it had cost colmover cannot clean this mess for his files and household effects which he is partiaily, and in from Washington, $1,000 would many instances substantially, go to the driver members of responsible. the Teamsters Union so that New Leader Is Needed gives you a connection be- California needs a new Gov- tween me and Jimmy Hoffa ernor It needs a new leader. Of California's present Dem- And among the attributes ocratic regime, he said it had that new Governor and new brought fiscal unbalance, defi- leader must have, in my opin- cient education and job oppor- ion. are these: tunities, a high crime rate, and He must be a man, first of a political machine composed all. who is strong enough in of "second raters." his own right that he can be Governor Brown responded independent of any pressure immediately to Mr. Nixon's group and can always speak announcement. and act for all the people of welcome the opportunity this state. to confront Richard Nixon in a He must be a man who is campaign that once and for all strong enough and who is re- will retire him to private life,' spected enough to attract said the Governor. into state government men Governor Brown predicted and women of the very high- that the Nixon candidac: would est caliber to take the posts "galvanize the Democrats of that are there to be served California into a fighting cru- and to be handled. sade" to reject "the real Nixon And, finally, and most im- The announcement. Governor portant of all, the next Gov- Brown said, despite Mr. Nixon's ernor of this state must be a claim to the contrary, "means man who will devote not part simply that he will be a candi- but all of his energies to this date for President again in 1964, job. He canont do as Gover- He sees the Governorship of this nor [Edmund G.] Brown did state only as a stepping stone -be elected Governor and for his own Presidential then, within six months, start tions.' running for the Presidency of Former Governor Knight; Mr. the United States of America. Nixon most formidable pri- That is why tonight I have mary opponent, also issued a two decisions to announce to statement pledging "an honest the people of California and and fighting campaign." to the people of this nation. The victor of the June 5, 1962, First, I shall not be a can- Republican. primary, the ex- didate for President of the Governor said, "must enter the United States in 1964. I shall final test with a united party." be a candidate for Governor of the state of California in 'Blabbermouth-itis' Deplored 1962. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 In making this announce- (UPI) Representative Frank ment, I base it on several cir- J. Becker, Republican of Nas- cumstances, a few of which sau, said today the Kennedy I would like to share with Administration had been this group tonight. plagued bynablabbermouth-itis) First, there is the selfish that was harming the United reason. I often hear it said States. and helping the Soviet that it is a sacrifice for men Union. He used the term to de- or women to serve in public scribe "Government officials life. For me, I have found it who leak information about to be the other way around. vital diplomatic secrets." On my return to private life NY Times Sept PRESERVATION COPY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum PLEASE CREDIT ANY QUOTES OR EXCERPTS FROM THIS ABC RADIO AND TELEVISION PROGRAM TO "ABC'S ISSUES AND ANSWERS." ISSUES AND ANSWERS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1972 GUEST: JAMES R. HOFFA former President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters INTERVIEWED BY: Jim Kincaid, ABC News Correspondent Frank Reynolds, ABC News Special Correspondent - - - MR. KINCAID: Mr. Hoffa, one of the major issues in this country, and I believe one that is growing almost daily, is crime. I think it is your position that the prison system, far from diminishing the problem, is actually encouraging it. Would you comment on that? MR. HOFFA. Well, from my 58 months in Lewisburg prison, I would say that the present prison system is the only college that turns out graduates which is not for the best interests of this country and that you cannot continue on as you are in trying to fool the American people that re- habilitation is one of the issues that the prison administra- tion has in mind when they incarcerate people. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 2 MR. KINCAID: During that term at Lewisburg and during 2 your stays at other institutions. what are some of the spe- cific conditions you would like to see changed? MR. HOFFA: Well, I think you have to recognize that Lewisburg was built in 1932. It was built for 2. maximum 950 people. They have now, without a single stone being added to the building, some 1500-odd inmates. The hospital , the food, the quarters, all are subject to building un tensions which in return creates trouble Letween the inmates and administration and the only answer I can see to prisons from my own personal experience is that you have a limited number of peonle in prison, each prison, and that you have sufficient people who can analyze each indi- vidual and try to correct what brought him there. In addition to that, you have to recognize that the people in prison today are not the old-time type prisoners 17 you see on TV, old TV movies, or new TV movies, but they are, so many of them, educated, many of them veterans and many of them who resent and will continue to resent the fact that their trial in court wasn't to the standards that you expect 20 in America, to where they are supplied with a so-called free 21 22 lawyer by the court whose only interest is to get rid of their case as rapidly as possible, plead them quilty and get them out and, until you change all of the conditions in the prison, you will have nothing but trouble now and in the future. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum MR. REYNOLDS: Mr. Hoffa, I would like to come back to this subject of prison reform but I would like to ask you first of all why did you agree to come on this program and what do you propose to do with your life now? MR. HOFFA. I came on this program to try to tell the American people the judges, the prosecutors and the legis- lators, that while they may have the Lest intentions in the 9 world, they have never had the experience of 58 months in a prison and, desnite all the books that they may have read and all the criminologists who tell them what is going on 11 and the osvchiatrists, they don't know what is going on in 12 those prisons. And, while we only have a half hour, it is 13 worth 1051 time to come here and try to, I hope, change rre 14 minds of judges and prosecutors particularly, not to send 15 first offenders to jail but to --- in crimes of a non-violent 16 nature. Lut to have those individuals placed under super- 17 vision and llow them to be in the street. 18 UP. PHYNOLDS. What was the general attitude or the 19 general treatment of first offenders coming into Lewisburg, those you talked with? 20 21 UT. BOTTA. No different than those who are a second, third or fourth offender. 22 23 R. RHYNOLDS: What happened to them? 24 19. IRNPA Chen a person came into Lewisburg, through 25 that gate, surrounded by the 40-foot wall, he is immediately Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum taken into what is called R&D, Receiving and Discharge. Strip- ped, checked, given clothes that isn't fit for a bum, and completely dehumanized. Placed into quarantine, into quarters, and under conditions that we have no business criticizing Vietnam, how they handle prisoners. And then you, after moving them out of the nuarters of quarantine into population, instead of taking the individuals and analyzing them carefully as to what brought them there, and what is needed, if anything, to correct of a rehabilitative nature, they are thrown into at pool and the first offender. second offender. third offender, the fellow who murdered somebody or held up a bank or just drove a car across a state line is 13 tranted the same and it just won't work. 14 I talked to these young people in prison and while the 15 come in there scared, timid, and they wonder what it is is all about, they wish they weren't there within 90 days - - 17 it is no different than a man joining the Army or going over- seas ... within 90 days the human being learns to adapt himself 10 to the conditions there and it is the worst conditions, not 19 the best. 20 MR. REYNOLDS: What happens then? Did you ever see any 21 body who was rehabilitated in the sense that word is 22 frequently used? 28 MR. HOFFA: There is no rehabilitation in prison whatso- 24 25 ever, and I defy anybody in Lewisburg, Atlanta, Leavenworth, Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum or any other prison, to show me a single person that they 2 rehabilitated who didn 't want to be rehabilitated. And you must remember one thing, that 30 and under are the only ones in who the prison is nterested insofar as $ schooling and teaching them atrade. Thirty and over, you are just a number, putting in the number of days required to 7 finally leave, out through the gatés you come through. MR. KINCAID: Mr. Hoffa, we have all seen those movies you talked about earlier where the tough con in the prison 10 sort of runs the place and the prison administration has very little to do with it. He is the quy who manages who gets 12 cigarettes and who doesn't, homosexual rape is also involved, 13 and all these kinds of things. Is this a true picture or does 11 it even go far enough? 13 MR. HOFFA. It doesn't go far enough. First of all, you 16 must realize that drugs are in the prison. No. 1. Two, 17 you must recognize the fact that the inmates actually do 13 the physical work that makes it possible for the prison to 19 operate. In Lewisburg they have a factory that employs 400 20 and better numbers of people where they pay them 17 cents an hour and it is true that, human beings being what they are, 21 22 they gather around the strong people and the strong people, 23 by their conversations, by their acts, more or less without 24 dictating the policy, create the policy that the other men may follow. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum MR. REYNOLDS: - Mr. Hoffa, you are a strong man. Did you help run that place? 3 MR. HOFFA. Well, I will put it to you this way: We were acquainted with everybody in the prison and when they 5 had problems we tried to help them. When they needed jobs, 6 I secured jobs for them. When they needed other help, I did 7 my best to accommodate them and I think I had as many friends 3 and have now in that prison as any person who was ever in the 9 prison. And, while I did not direct or dictate policy, I 10 am sure that the young people and the old people were willing 11 to accept my advice, just as much as they were willing to 12 accept the help that I gave them. 13 MR. REYNOLDS: Did you receive any different treatment 14 because of your fame? 15 MR. HOFFA: Yes, I was in the maximum security for some 16 unknown reason for two and three-qarter years, with allegedly 17 those individuals who had created crimes of violence. I tried 18 to find out who I was in maximum security and I received the 19 notice from the warden that it wasn't his doing: it was orders from Washington. 20 NR. PHYNOLDS: Well. you know the Bureau of Prisons 21 22 decies that and says it was just a question of routine prison processine, that the decision was made there. 23 24 MP. HOPPA: Well. it isn't true for two reasons. First 25 of all, every 90 days you can File to change your quarters. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum You can file to change your job position. I was never allowed to change my joh position and never allowed to change my quarters. I personally talked to the captein, the lieutenant: and to the warden, and whether they will admit it or not publicly, they resented the fact that I was being treated different than the average, ordinary person who came to Lewis burq. 8 9 to 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum MR. REYNOLDS: What kind of a job did you have during 2 all that time? 3 MR. HOFFA: They created a job for me just prior to coming there, knowing I was coming in, to make and rohabilitati 5 mattresses and the rehabilitation of mattrosses was S as much as it was rehabilitation of inmatos. Nothing. (Announcements) ******** MR. KINCAID: Mr. Hoffa, you made private efforts while you were in prison to help some prisoners, perhaps to stay out once they got out. How did the prison authorities 12 feel about that? MR. HOFFA: Antagonistic. Prison authorities do not wanc any Inmate to do anything to help another inmate, and I was called in, they endeavored to stop me from securing jobs for inmates so they could be released, even though that is one of the criteria of the parole board, to give a man a release. In some instances the job I secured for individuals, his case worker told him it was too much money for him and would not recommend parole until he gave up the job. MR. KINCAID: Mentioning parols, I know you have some very ambiguous restrictions on your own movements and IS what you can do. Would you care to comment on what your parolé actually involves? MR. HOFFA: Tell, there is a question as to what i.1: Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 2 involves. It involves direct and indirect management of labor unions. What the "indirect" means, I don't know and us we are trying to find out now. I do know that each time I want to travel that I have to file a plan and secure approval from Washington to be able to travel, which inconveniences traveling, as happened in the death of my sister who died, And which I did not attend the funeral because I could not get in for the approval as against the question of time necessary to file for approval. That is one thing. Insofar as the question of what I can do under the 11 parole plan, I don't know. I have now had my 12 attorney send a letter to the local parole man, who is a 13 very nice fellow. I understand the problem. Who has now 14 sent it to Washington to try to find out just what 15 can I do under the parole plan. I don't 16 think anybody knows at this moment. MR. KINCAID: So at this point you don't know whether you 17 could TO into business if that should be your desire, or even 18 what subjects you can talk about if you make a speech, is 13 that right? 20 MR. HOFFA: That is correct. It is at this point up 21 in the air as to how far I could go criticizing or 22 complimenting or making statements which could br accepted 23 as a rrconpendation. 24 25 MR. KINCAID: To labor? Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 3 MR. HOFFA: Yes. I don't know where I am at. MR. REYNOLDS: Well, Mr. lloffa, you are still pretty to popular in the Teamsters Union. MR. HOFFA: I hope so. 5 MR. REYNOLDS: If you make any kind of a statement, 6 couldn't that be construed as indirect or perhaps even direct 7 involvement? MR. HOFFA: That is why I am trying to got a clarification S because I know that if there is any statement made concerning labor, the people who I have represented over a long period of years would respond whether I requested them to or not, as to a recommendation that I would make in many instances, and I have to be very careful until I get a clarification as to how much and what free speech rights do I have. 15 MR. REYNOLDS: I read in the paper very shortly after 16 your release that you were going to be permitted to discuss 17 union issues, but not influence people. MR. HOFFA: HOW do you discuss issues and make statements 10 of clarification or criticism if it would create a problem 20 in the man's mind whother he accepted it or rejected it, and 21 if he accepted it, it would violate the rules of the parole plan. 23 MR. REYNOLDS: You have to interpret the restructions you are under in your way, sir, but as you well know -- you. don't have to answer this question if you don't wish to, but Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 11 as you well know there have been some suggestions that your release was dictated in part by political considerations. 3 The Teamsters have been friendly with the President and 4 the President may have picked up some support. DO you want to comment on that? MR. HOFFA: I don't believe that. I think President 7 Nixon, based upon what he has probably read, the reports 8 that he received, decided solely without a political 9 consideration that I had been in prison long enough and 10 that I was subject to release under conditions and he 11 approved it. :2 MR. REYNOLDS: You don't think there was any political 13 significance? 14 MR. HOFFA: I do not believe it. 15 MR. REYNOLDS: Are you going to be free to talk about 16 politics or do you have any intention of doing that this 17 year? This is kind of an important political year. 18 MR. HOFFA: Under the conviction of a felony, as you know I don't have a right to vote, but I :do have a right of is 20 expression which may or may not affect certain ways people will vote. I do intend to talk on politics. 21 MR. REYNOLDS: Do you intend to endorse a candidate? 22 28 MR. HOFFA: I may in due time, but at the present moment the answer is No. 24 25 MR. KINCAID: Mr. Hoffa, are there any of the political Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 12 candidates there are in the field now who are saying things that you like to hear either with regard to labor or with 3 regard to the subject of prison reform? MR. HOFFA: I would say that President Nixon is the best qualified man at the present moment for the Presidency of the United States in my own personal opinion. Until such time as we see who all the candidates will be or are, that would be my only statement in regard to my position. 0 MR. REYNOLDS: That is pretty close to an endorsement, Mr. Hoffa. MR. ROFFA: If there are no other candidates, my statement stands as E just stated it. MR. KINCAID: Let's talk for a moment about labor, and I hope I don't ask you to manage anything at this point. How do you feel about labor's condition in the United States today, do you think labor is a* happy movement, is 17 it happy with wage and price controls at this point? 18 MR. HOFFA: I don't think labor is ever happy, whether 19 there is price control, wage control, or just 20 normal conditions, because inflation has been eroding away all of their increases for the past 12, 15 years, 22 and they are desirous of securing more and more all the time, which I endorse and approve, because they are entitled to more, and so far as controls are concerned, I recommonded in 1966 to President Johnson a form of control Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum of both prices, wages, interest and dividends and received no answer back from him, and so it is very difficult for anybody to say how does labor feel, but I know one thing about labor and I have represented them 43 years, their children are going to want more than the father had and so forth down the line and they are entitled to it because of automation, increased production, and the every right of individuals to expect to have a better standard of living as time goes on. 15 15 17 18 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum MR. REYNOLDS: Mr. Hoffa, I know you have kent up with things while you were in prison, but what do you think of American society today now that you are out in it? You have been locked up for a long time. MR. HOFFA: Well, I would say this -- and I have a son and at daughter, a son-in-law, a daughter-in-law, and two grand- children. I would hope that they never find themselves desirous of looking like some of the individuals that I have seen since I came out. 1 would hope that the young people would recognize, and I am sure they will as time goes on, that one of the most important parts of the human being is to keep your mind alert, your body clean and to know what is 13 going on: not just rabble-rouse the rabble-rousers. I am disappointed somewhat in the small group of young people - - and it is a small group: it is not a large group -- a small 18 group of people who are trying to change the nature of this a government by not recognizing that the only way you can change it is by registering and voting, not by a lot of shouting, 18 noise and nonsense. 10 MR. REYNOLDS: On the other hand, Mr. Hoffa, some of these 20 people believe that they have genuine grievances. You talked 21 to young men who went into prison who felt they were being 22 23 unjustly treated. MR. HOFFA. This is a different question. There is a 25 question in prison of a person being incarcerated where you Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 15 are trying to dehumanize himsand take away all of the con- ditions of his life that he enjoyed prior to going to prison; as such/an automobile, the right to have a girl friend, the right he to go where he wants, to dress the way/wants, but he is put 3 in a rigid position where if he doesn't comply he is put in of the hole. Sure they are resentful and they have a right to 7 be resentful, but so far as the question of the people outside, I don't say they don't have a right to protest. I am the 3 first one to agree to protest. I have protested all my life. I don't say they don't have a right to want changes. They have a right, but in this country the only way you really get changes is to put people in Congress who will make laws 13 that change conditions. (Announcements) ******* 15 : MR. REYNOLDS: Mr. Hoffa, I would like to come back in 17 our remaining time to your discussion of your life in prison. 18 It has always been our understanding that federal prisons, 13 particularly Dewishurg, were perhaps considered better than 20 others. 1 : that true, and what do you suppose conditions are like in other places? 21 22 IP. HOFFA: I talked to inmates who came from Leavenworth, 23 Atlanta Terre liaute, who came to Lewisburg and they were 24 amazed at the tigbt security that prevails in Lewisburg dispite : all the publicity that they had read prior to coming there, In all probability it is the tightest security prison there is in the system. or as tight. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 16 The problem of prison life is not something you can discuss in this half hour. It would take almost a month to go into detail, in pointing out individual incidents that causes tensions and creates riots. MR. REYNOLDS: Give us one example. MR. HOPFA. Let's just take the very question of food. The food comes in on the back dock as well and fresh as any food brought to any restaurant, and they havethe most expensive clientale preparing it in the world. More chefs, more stewards they call them, at a greater cost per meal than any- where in the world except maybe the Pentagon or the Senate Building, and when it comes out on the line it isn't fit for an animal to eat. I complained about it from the day I went. in until the day I came out. Not just making noise; I talked to the warden, I talked to the captains, talked to lieutenants, talked to the stewards and nothing improved the food. They take the flat position, "llere it is. What are you going to do about it; and that creates a tremendous problem in prisons. Clothing, for instance, is another problem. Young fellows, or adult people coming in are dressing, prior to coming there, decently. They are given clothes ill-fitting and horrible for an individual to have during the period of his time there. All this creates tension and tension creates riots. MR. REYNOLDS: Can you tell us, what was the impact In Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Lewisburg of Attica? MR. HOFFA: I think everybody in Lewisburg, including myself, was in sympathy with the inmates. Recognizing the fact they may not have had the right to have the violence they had, but to protest concerning what we knew was going on 5) in Attica since some of the inmates in Lewisburg had been in 7 Attica and we talked to them and we knew that whatever condition was corrected in Attica would reflect in Lewisburg, 9 so there was symnathy, I am sure, in every prison and jail in 10 this country with Attica. 11 MR. KINCAID: Was there ever anything similar to Attica 12 while you were at Lewisburg in terms of violence? 13 MR. BOREA: Yes, there was a riot where several quards were 14 hurt scriously. One quard permanently hurt and the result of 15 that riot was tighter security. Instead of trying to alleviate 10 the problem. the only answer was, turn the screw and make it 17 tichter, and that created more tension and more problem. 18 You talk about psychiatrists and psychologists and what they 19 do for prisoners, The nsychologist they have in there I doubt 20 if A sees one-tenth of one ner cent of all the people in 21 Dewisburg for more than five minutes and there just is not 22 sufficient time for it case worker, who is a direct liaison 23 person for the prisoner to the administration, to even know 24 the names of people he represents. Some 300 people per case 25 vorer. "idiculous. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 18 MR. REYNOLDS: So it is easy for a man to feel abandoned then? $ MR. HOFFA. Unless you are & strong-willed individual, when that light ques out and you are laying in that cell and you are thinking about your family, the outside world and what is going to hannen to you, it is a deplorable dehumanizing condition. MR. KINCAID: Is the mater of non-communication with the life you know on the outside, is that the most difficult thing to accept? MR. HOFFA: The whole condition is ridiculows. Let's just take one example. You receive a letter from home that your child, your wife, or somebody 2.31 your immediate family 11 has been hurt or seriously ill. You immediately have to make 15 two choices. One, go to what they call a bedside visit or 16 wait until a person dies and go to the funeral. You can't have 17 both. 19 In addition to that, the inmate is required --- and very few people have the money --- to pay either one or two guards, 20 plus mileage, plus maintenance, to go to see your family, where the member is ill or the person died. 22 MR. KINCAID: You have to bear that expense yourself? 23 MR. HOFFA: That is correct, and you don't have the money. MR. REYNOLDS: Do you feel you can light a fire around the country and get people really interested in prison reform? Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum MR. HOFFA: I will do the best I can do and I can tell you this, I have received over 500 letters from organizations who are interested in prison reform, who are willing to be part of any organization that I start, or I will join with them and we will create as many meetings and as many forums as we can to clear out the inhuman activities that are per- mitted in prisons. B MR. REYHOLDS: Do you intend to do around and lecture 9 at colleges? 10 MR. HOPFA: I certainly will. I intend to devote a 11 considerable amount of my time to trying to clear up a 12 situation which the ordinary citizen on the street is affected 13 by. The policeman walking the street and the patrol car is 1.5 affected because if you are going to turn out of preses is the thousand people who come out of Lewisburg, pass through 16 Lewisburg every year, worse than the day they went in, then 17 what can you exnect for the citizen CO gain on the street 10 excent trouble? 19 MR. RETHOLDS: Thank you very much, Mr. Hoffa. Good 20 luck to you, sir. Thank you for being with us today on ISSUES AND ANSWERS. 21 22 - - - 23 24 25 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE file WASHINGTON EYES ONLY December 29, 1971 MEMORANDUM FOR: JOHN DEAN FROM: CHUCK COLSON Can't we do something somehow to keep Hoffa quiet. He is becoming a national figure overnight. No good can come of this. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum For: John Dean Here is the thing I told you about. Clark Mollenhoff Dec. 9, 1970 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum To Clark M.Hapfee WIIY BOBBY KENNEDY WENT AFTER JIMMY HOFFA: LOOKING BACK ON IT ALL AND LOOKING AHEAD by Ralph C. James Associate Professor of Economics State University of New York, Albany April 1970 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum WHY BOBBY KENNEDY WENT AFTER JIMMY HOFFA: LOOKING BACK ON IT ALL by Ralph C. James Associate Professor of Economics State University of New York, Albany Between 1961 and 1964, I spent about 1500 hours with Jimmy Hoffa, and hundreds more with his associates, family, and antagonists. The book I wrote on this created 1 considerable controversy and attention. Since then, hardly to my surprise, numerous people have asked me questions about Hoffa. But to my surprise, the most frequent question is not with reference to his trade union activities or financial manipulations. Rather, it is: Why did Bobby Kennedy go after him? I give my answer to this question as briefly and simply as possible. My purpose is not to detail a lot of legal facts, but to explore the motivation for a political phenomenon of great importance in recent American history. Basically, my answer is it all began as an accident, and then complicated political forces pushed it first into success, and then into disaster for all principal figures involved, although possibly a Fifth Act is still to be enacted. It is an instructive lesson in American politics. 1. Ralph James and Estelle James, Hoffa and the Teamsters (Van Nostrand, 1965). Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum It All Began Accidentally Once upon a time a long time ago (November 1956), a young fella, named Robert Kennedy, was appointed by Senator John F. McClellan (D-Ark) as chief legal counsel for the sub-committee on Labor-Management Relations for the Permanent Senate Committee on Investigations. On this sub- committee were two relatively unknown freshmen senators, John F. Kennedy and Barry Goldwater, both of whom later rose to great political prominence, largely as a result of this sub-committee. Immediately, Robert Kennedy and staff went to Portland and Seattle, mostly on hunch. They found the pick- ings easy -- a) a bit of liquor scandal, and b) the basis for charges against David Beck, the then President of the Teamsters Union, some of which charges led to his imprison- ment. Beck had a public image as "a labor statesman". In early February 1957 he destroyed this image. He fled the country for three months. When he returned, he was a broken man, as best documented by the famous New York Times photo of him covering his face with his hat as he landed at a New York airport. I doubt Kennedy expected such success. Suddenly, they all became front page news and TV celebrities: the two Kennedys, McClellan, and Goldwater. Bobby now says to himself: What now? It seems so easy. Who now? The obvious target: Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful, Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum albeit then relatively unknown, Teamster leader, the probable successor to Beck as Teamster President. Bobby lined up one of his part-time assistants to pose as sort of a Greenish Beret agent to con Hoffa, pos- I sible interpretation. Hoffa was indicted, tried, and acquitted. The racial overtones of this trial added to its complexities, for there were accusations that the Negro jurors voted for Hoffa not because they felt he was innocent but because he was a friend of men of black skin. Then, there was another trial (December 1957) of Hoffa. Result: a hung jury. At about the same time, the Teamsters were voted out of the AFL-CIO, the Typográphical Workers objecting, but Walter Reuther agreeing, all with political and trade union implications. A little later, the for December 1957 case was retried and Hoffa completely acquitted. 3 Then It Became Political Embarrassment It was not so much that Bobby Kennedy had been beaten in these trials. Rather, his defeats made him look like a fool and a conniver. The best example of a man about to fall on his face was when Bobby told reporters before the first trial "I'll jump off the Capitol dome if Hoffa isn't convicted"; afterwards Hoffa's lawyer sent Bobby a parachute. When you say something like that and a jury thrice says you're wrong, you feel not only embarrassed but stung. You feel you want revenge. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Then It Became Political Publicity Between 1957 and 1960, the Kennedys and McClellan pulled Hoffa for testimony before a Congressional investi- gating committee more times and for more hours than anyone in the history of the country. Twice, Bobby tried to get read President Eisenhower's Attorney General to indict Hoffa, and twice he refused. But in the interim it became better play on TV than "I Love Lucy". The extent of the publicity was virtually unprecedented. Then It Became Political Expediency The potential political payoff gradually became apparent. Maybe it was envisaged by the Kennedys from the beginning. This, I doubt. Yet, its relevance to the impending 1960 Presidential elections must have become apparent to them by the fall of 1958, especially after George Meany, President of the then newly formed AFL-CIO, broke the truce with the Teamsters and attacked the co-- operative arrangements worked out between AFL-CIO affiliates and Hoffa. Opposition to Hoffa was an obvious road to The White House, which RFK and JFK capitalized on, undoubtedly with the best of intentions. Then It Became Political Necessity The question of Hoffa came up dramatically in the 1960 political campaign. In the first of the famous "no- Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum holds-barred" TV debates, the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon, asked John F. Kennedy, the Democratic candidate, "What do you think of Jimmy Hoffa?" Kennedy replied, "This nation GH is not safe so long as a man like that is permitted to run free." The die was cast. JFK, advertently or not, had com- mitted himself to putting Hoffa in jail. Thus, the attack on Hoffa had become political necessity. Then It Became Political Cruelty: The Hounding of Hoffa When JFK became President he appointed his brother, The's Robert, as Attorney General. RFK quickly revived the old so- called "Test Fleet" case which had been rejected twice by Eisenhower's Attorney General. Hoffa was indicted, tried in 4 Nashville in November-December 1962, and acquitted (it was a hung jury with the majority voting in Hoffa's favor). If he (19 had been convicted, the maximum penalty would have been one year in jail. Again, the Kennedys were made to look foolish. But Bobby was not a man to take this lying down. His FBI Agents hounded Hoffa wherever he went. Twenty-nine J9 Grand Juries investigated the Teamsters pension fund in the g. jarior Midwest. Quietly, the FBI studied the selection of jurors in the Nashville trial. As a result, Hoffa was indicted twice in 1963: 1) for jury tampering, and 2) for fraud in connec- tion with the pension fund. Jury tampering. The government alleged that asso- ciates of Hoffa had attempted to bribe or influence prospec- Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum tive jurors for his Nashville trial. Let us be quite clear on this. They did not allege that he had. They did not even allege the alleged tamperers were his agents, or that Tamporing they were acting as his agents. Rather, they simply alleged he knew about it. There is no reasonable question that at least a couple of these alleged tampering attempts occurred. The villains were convicted and are currently in jail. The government's case against Hoffa rested entirely on the testimony of one man, a minor inconsequential, some- Parten what nefarious, Teamster official from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Name: Edward G. Partin. Partin had been in Hoffa's company during the days preceding the Nashville trial and purportedly reported each evening to the FBI on what Hoffa was saying about attempts to influence the jury prior to the selection of the jury, but purportedly not on what Hoffa was discussing with his lawyers. The FBI then followed Partin's leads and discovered that at least some were correct. None of the prospective jurors None service allegedly tampered with ever actually served on the jury which acquitted Hoffa. Partin's background and capacity for veracity is worthy of note (although Judge Wilson did not permit the jury to hear any of it). Partin was under indictment for several charges at the time, on none of which he has ever been tried, now, almost five years later. Partin's background is best Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum summarized by a recent front page Wall Street Journal article under the headline, "A SPECIAL CASE? A Louisiana Teamster Eludes Courts Since Hoffa Trial Testimony". The first paragraph puts it simply and to the point, stating: "Edward G. Partin is no candidate for a good citizenship award. At various times during the last three decades, he has been jailed on a conviction of burglary, arrested on charges of robbery, larceny and rape, indicted (but not tried) on a charge of manslaughter, and charged with kidnapping (latter dis- missed) ⑉2 This long article then mentions allegations concerning Partin's embezzlement of his own local union's funds (for which allegation there is substantial documentation); and substantial evidence concerning Partin's strategic direc- tion of tremendous violence in Louisiana, following Hoffa's conviction and completely contrary to Hoffa's desires and interests. Incidentally, the alleged rape (for which there is substantial documentation) was of a thirteen-year-old girl. This is the distinguished background (practicably incomparable) of the FBI witness whose sole testimony put Hoffa in jail. The above succinct summary may say something about Mr. Partin's character. But his testimony (with his back- ground unbeknown to the jury) prevailed. Afterwards, Life magazine made a big to- do about what a wonderful man he is. 2. Wall Street Journal, June 13, 1969, page 1, column 1. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum The FBI set up Partin to entrap Hoffa. There seems no question about this. Whether it was the FBI's idea or Partin's (a question much debated) is irrelevant, for the FBI set it up. Partin could not have, because he was in a Center Louisiana jail at the time this FBI conspiracy was concocted. Anow Then, solely on the basis of Partin's testimony, Hoffa was convicted, and sentenced to eight years in jail. Appeals followed (on grounds such as that the government 8mg supplied the jurors with prostitutes while they were locked in hotel rooms in-betwixt deliberations, a seemingly improb- 5 able allegation which, though, has considerable foundation and certainly extensive documentation). The appeals. were rejected. In March 1967, Hoffa was incarcerated in Lewisberg regold federal penitentary, where he is still currently domiciled. In July 1964, Hoffa was convicted on the fraud charge, a case which is still under appeal. It was an extremely complicated case, which the jury could not possibly have understood. After seven weeks of hearings, the presid- appal ing judge, the Honorable Richard Austin of Chicago, almost threw the case against Hoffa out of court. I personally feel (based on careful reading of most transcript and background documents) 3 Judge Austin did not understand it either. I doubt the government did. Although some of the other defend- 3. For detailed analysis, see James and James, op. cit., pp. 213-319, and 378-393. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum ants were undoubtedly guilty of something, the case against Hoffa was tenuous and flimsy. It was the final ploy in Bobby Kennedy's "Get Hoffa" campaign and it succeeded. Then It Became Disaster The above is not intended to cast aspersions on the Kennedys. Although quite different, both were great men and our country appropriately deeply and greatly mourns their passing. But this does not escape us from the obliga- tion to analyze the motives and effects of their actions. To recapitulate: My interpretation is that it all began accidentally. When RFK was appointed chief counsel of the McClellan Committee in 1956 he probably had never heard of Jimmy Hoffa. When he started to go after Hoffa, I am sure his motives were as noble as Don Quixote's. But as it rolled along, political expediency and political necessity became inextricably intertwined with moral purity. I very much doubt the great Bobby Kennedy himself was able to dis- tinguish how much of each element was involved. It was as though the hand of fate was in charge, not Bobby's, the FBI's, or Hoffa's. It was one of the biggest and longest political- legal battles in our country's history. It went on for precisely ten years: March 1957 to March 1967. Bobby won, but it was a hollow victory. As he said on the day Hoffa was finally incarcerated, "It's a sad Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum day when anyone goes to jail", a statement that had a quite different ring from his brother's comment seven years earlier, "This country is not safe so long as a man like Hoffa runs free." It was hollow partially because his brother, JFK, had been murdered about four years before, and he himself was no longer Attorney General. Probably, he also called it "sad" because he was confused as to whether it was right or not. The question of justice. It is like the question which JFK thought about, if not Bobby: Did Lancelot really want to beat Arthur, or was it all just a game? And then tragedy struck again: The senseless, regurgitating assassination of Bobby. Ironically, he was shot because of his vigorous support of the state of Israel. Ironically? Yes, because so is Hoffa a strong, committed supporter of Israel. All that is left of the three is Guenivere, and he's in jail. I do not mean to impute ethical or theological interpretation, but somehow, in some sense and to some degree, all three did it to each other. But what of Guenivere? -- he's still alive. Act Five: Or Will There Be One? What does all this add up to? It reads like a combination of a Thomas Hardy novel and a Shaksperian tragedy, as if the plot had all been com- posed ahead of time and the hand of fate were at the wheel. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum After great struggle, the Kennedys achieved success. Then, the third act: the ultimate conflict between the Kennedys and Hoffa, with Hoffa at first appearing to win, then losing. The dramatic Shaksperian tension arises: Is this really what will happen? In the traditional Shaksperian formula, the apparent victors are murdered in the Fourth Act. The fifth act is still to be written, for Hoffa is still alive, albeit incarcerated as a resident of Lewisberg federal prison. If Shakespeare were writing it, Hoffa would die in prison, or, more likely, be murdered right after getting out, or something like that. If Hardy were writing it, Hoffa would probably emerge from prison to return as President of the Teamsters (as he still is), and eventually be elected President of the United States, only to collapse and die as he is taking the oath of office from Chief Justice Agnew, with one of Agnew's children dramatically stepping in as Hoffa's replacement as President. But this is not fiction. It is real life. And deadly serious. What happens, and what is relevant, for both prag- matic politics and the State of the Nation is what President Nixon doès. There is an easy solution. He could pardon Hoffa by Executive Order. Nixon could justifiably do this. Maybe he does not Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum know (but probably he does) whether Hoffa was really guilty of his Chattanooga conviction. However, as a lawyer, Nixon does know of a basic simple legal concept in this country, namely, "Let the Punishment Fit The Crime". He knows that eight years in maximum federal detention for the flimsy charges against Hoffa do not fit this legal concept. With respect to a pardon, President Nixon could reasonably explain, "This man has suffered enough" without passing on the uninformed judgment (possibly prejudiced) of the jury. He could add, "Hoffa has been in jail for almost three years on charges, even if completely true, would ordinarily only involve one year of imprisonment". Concern- ing Hoffa's second conviction (still under appeal), any reasonable autopsy of the evidence would be sufficient to merit a full pardon. The Political Evaluation What does President Nixon do (if anything) in such circumstances? In such a situation, one has to ponder. 1) Some call him "Tricky Dicky" -- everyone picks up a nickname. For example, I call my daughter, "Squirt". 2) The President of the United States has to make a moral decision, which modestly may be called "'Tis it Fair?" From the above, above all else, the question is: "Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?" The answer is obviously, NO. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 3) The President also has to make a political decision. It might complicate his moral decision, although I feel the President will make his decision on moral and ethical considerations -- not political opportunism. But, the President of the United States has to consider political expediency to a degree, as to a considerable degree did the Kennedy two. 4) Hoffa in jail is obviously related to the Black vs. White question. The first Hoffa trial was alleged to be on racial grounds with Hoffa and black people winning. The fifth Hoffa trial put one of Hoffa's best Business Agents, a black man (and his uncle) in jail. The feeling among many black leaders (although for political expediency reasons they # might not say it), is that Hoffa is, and has been for years, a friend of the black man. This is politically relevant. 5) Hoffa is distinctly pro-Israel. This might Xgers complicate Nixon's political decision. Yet, there are many people in this country who feel Jews had difficulties in Nazi Germany and sympathize with the Jewish state. 6) Political freedom for trade union leaders is another consideration. A leading trade union leader is Jimmy Hoffa, president, albeit in jail, of the world's largest union The Political Decision Would President Nixon pardon Hoffa?! What could be his motives? Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Pro 1) Hoffa is Republican oriented. 2) The "ALA" (Alliance For Labor Action) which now includes the Teamsters, the Automobile Workers, the Chemical Workers, and (closely affiliated) the West Coast Longshoremen, could provide substantial support for Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. Yet, if they did, it Vala would be called a political payoff. If they did not it would be called a political sell-out. Con 1) Nixon would obviously be accused of being in favor of the allegedly corrupt Teamsters (some. of whom surely have been and some of whom undoubtedly still are). Nixon might even be accused of compromising his campaign to suppress the MAFIA (which would be a most distorted and false smear). Contrariwise, if Nixon pardoned Hoffa, the MAFIA might reasonably conclude Hoffa was in cahoots with Nixon against them, and send Hoffa to oblivion as efficiently as they did Roger Touhy. 2) Because of Hoffa's feelings about the state of Israel and Nixon's support of Israel, to free Hoffa would be tantamount to letting run rampant a man who has done Javy things like having a "commemorative dinner" (circa: $300,000) to set up in Israel a school for children of parents butchered by the Nazis. This is the Fifth Act. It hasn't been written. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum It would be dangerous, but a courageous political decision by President Nixon. It would require guts and have to be decided almost exclusively on moral and ethical (if not religious) grounds, for the political ramifications are too diverse and complicated to evaluate with confidence. But how could a man get to the Presidency of this great country if he did not have it? Once upon a time a long time ago, a man (just a man) was asked to answer a question while standing on one foot. His answer was: "Do not do unto others what you do not want them to do unto you. The rest is commentary. And that is what the above is. Ecclesiastes says, "There is a time to talk and a time to keep silent." The above is as brief as I can put it. Coda Beethoven wrote a coda, so why can't I? Looking back on it all, the thing that puzzles me most is: Why, after all he has been subjected to in our He great country, does Hoffa still believe in it? He believes in American justice. That takes tremendous strength and Celong stamina. After what Hoffa's been through, Job had a picnic party in comparison. Knowing him as well as I do (Hoffa, not Job) the only thing I can conclude is he is made of the same peculiar fibre as my father: the belief that a man can walk through mud and some out clean. But no man can do Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum that. We all error. "To error is human", someone once might have said. Gilbert and Sullivan summed it up best, "Let the Punishment Fit The Crime" -- if there was one. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum DES MOINES HOMETOWN PAPER OWA Initially the firm had been owned by a small Independent 70 CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Sun., July 18, 1971 trucker, but he testified how Fitzsimmons and Hoffa put a labor squeeze on him to get him gradually to give up the Clark Mollenhoff business. He testified he was finally squeezed out of the busi- ness, and Mrs. Josephine Hoffa and relatives of Fitzsimmons moved into the ownership. The former owner was out of a job for some time, and at the time he gave his testimony he was working as a janitor in the Bad company Detroit area. Fitzsimmons was also a trustee of the Michigan Conference of Teamsters welfare funds at a time when there were many questionable transactions taking place in connection with that for the President? fund. At the time of the investigations by the House and Sen- ate, Fitzsimmons was regarded as a small fish, and the major focus was on Hoffa and others who were considered more important. WASHINGTON-Those who advised President Nixon to sit THERE WAS ALSO TESTIMONY that while serving as a down with the executive board of the International Brotherhood labor leader, Fitzsimmons was accepting "consultant" fees of of Teamsters and write that "Dear Frank" letter to teamsters $150 to $500 a week from a firm that hired teamsters' union president Frank Fitzsimmons have done Mr. Nixon a dis- members. service. The picture that the testimony gives of Fitzsimmons is a long The teamsters' executive board contains at least two vice way from the amiable, portly man who was elected president presidents currently under indictment-William Presser of of the 2-million-member union recently and who raised his Cleveland and Sam Provenzano of Newark, N.J. This is hardly own salary to $125,000 a year. the sort of a group the President should be associating with It is even possible that the salary increase will mean that even if he is hungry for labor support. Fitzsimmons won't feel compelled to take these side jobs. But Before he commented that "Fitz is my kind of a labor a look at the names and faces of the teamsters at that Miami leader," he should have had a better idea of the full back- meeting with Mr. Nixon indicates that there remain around an ground of Fitzsimmons, who has been operating the teamsters awful lot of persons who caused the McClellan committee to as the hand-picked successor to imprisoned teamster boss conclude years ago that "Hoffa runs a hoodlum empire, the James R. Hoffa. members of which are steeped in iniquity and dedicated to the Fitzsimmons may be a step up from Hoffa, convicted of proposition that no thug need starve if there is a teamsters conspiracy to loot the pension funds of the teamsters' union payroll handy." and to buy jurors in a federal court. But a close reading of Fitzsimmons was listed among the Hoffa associates who the McClellan committee hearings would indicate it is a small were a part of that "hoodlum empire." It would seem just step indeed. on casual observation that in seeking labor support for 1972, Mr. Nixon hasn't been very discriminating in the company FITZSIMMONS HAS OPERATED in the shadow of Hoffa he is keeping. since the 1930s in Detroit, and he has been vice president of Hoffa's home Local 299. There have been few troubles that Hoffa has been in where Fitzsimmons wasn't there beside him. From the time that a grand jury in Detroit indicted Fitzsimmons and a number of his colleagues in connection with alleged misuse of union power and money, it was apparent that Hoffa had something better in mind for Fitzsimmons. "This grand jury returned a number of indictments against teamster officials, among them William Bufanlino, Daniel Keating, Mike Nicoletti, Samuel Marroso and Frank Fitzsim- mons," the McClellan committee report related. There was an incident during this case that demonstrated Hoffa was willing to throw other teamsters to the wolves if he could get Fitzsimmons an acquittal. Hoffa arranged a deal with the court under which Nicoletti, Marroso and Keating entered pleas of guilty and the charges against Fitzsimmons were dropped. PART OF THE ARRANGEMENT, according to the testi- mony, was to continue the convicted labor figures on the teamster payroll during the period when they were in the penitentiary. This resulted in an expenditure of more than $85,000 in union funds for their period of incarceration. In another case, Hoffa's wife and the son and other family members of Fitzsimmons were shown to have been involved In a theater trucking company that delivered films throughout Michigan. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and/Museum nh Watch on Washington Museum May Enshrine a Scoundrel By Clark Mollenhoff and New York state concerning gold and Ripley said. "It was indeed worth every uranium mine stock-selling. dime the taxpayers would spend." WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Lyndon B. Ripley will concede now there may be The House subcommittee is finding Johnson made the decision that Joe some reason to question whether Hirsh- out it was also "a fantastic deal" for Joe Hirshhorn was a proper person to be horn is deserving of a place of honor on Hirshhorn. Ripley said Hirshhorn paid memorialized on the mall with Washington and Lincoln, only about $1 or $5 million for the art. the Washington but he feels the decision has been made. but he will receive the following benefits: Mall with a The contracts have been awarded, and 1. A monument on the mall character- $15,000,000 monu- bulldozers and men are at work on the ized as "the most expensive federally 11- ment - the Jo- monument. nanced memorial ever built." It will be seph H. Hirshhorn Also. the Smithsonian has spent about one of the three major points of interest Museum and a million dollars in preparing some of along with the Lincoln Memorial and the Sculpture Gar- the Hirshhorn art for an exhibit. Washington Monument. dens. Ripley, eager to get the Hirshhorn art 2. The tax benefits of a gift that Rip- S. Dillon Rip- and sculpture for the Smithsonian, ley says will be between S10 and $50 mil- ley, secretary of admits he was a willing and enthusiastic lion. Only Hirshhorn and his tax lawyers the Smithsonian Mr. Mollenhoff participant in anything that President can say what that bonanza will be worth. Institution. told of Johnson or the White House staff sug- 3. Government paid upkeep for his the Johnson role recently in explaining gested. collection, and pay for his staff, to the why he did not know of Hirshhorn's two "The orders came from the White tune of about $2 million a year in perpe- convictions for foreign exchange viola- House," Ripley said. "I knew nothing of tuity. tions. He said he made no inquiry into Hirshhorn's background and considered Chairman Thompson says now there Hirshhorn's background because he con- it none of my business. We did what the was negligence in Congress in 1966 in sidered it "none of my business" once President asked." failing to make a deeper study when it the White House had made the decision. was approved. Hirshhorn was not ques- The issue of Hirshhorn's convictions 'Fantastic Deal' tioned, and the Public Works Committee and background as an international stock did not go beyond the enthusiastic gush- Ripley said he only knew it was manipulator has been raised before the fantastic deal" to get the multi- ing of Dillon Ripley who was doing just what the White House wanted. House subcommittee on library and me- million-dollar Hirshhorn collection as a morials. It is now getting serious atten- gift. Hirshhorn himself is reputed to have Cooper Has Doubts tion from Chairman Frank Thompson, a fortune of $150 million. D-N.J., and Rep. Fred Schwengel, Ripley explains the Hirshhorn project Senator John Sherman Cooper, E. R-Jowa. was handled personally by President did raise some questions in the Senate Johnson with a slight assist from Abe Public Works Committee. He complained Decision's Made Fortas. a friend of Hirshhorn. Ripley that Congress was not legislating on the A House committee was told earlier says President Johnson asked Fertas if Hirshhorn museum, but seemed to be this year that Hirshborn was convicted the Hirshhorn collection was really worth simply approving a deal agreed upon the demands that Hirshhorn was making between Hirshhorn and the Johnson ad- twice of violating the foreign exchange laws of Canada. Also. he has been on the government to acquire it. "Fortas ministration. involved in investigations both in Canada agreed it was a fantastic collection," Senator Barry Goldwater. P.-Ariz., is another who is distressed at the Hirsh- horn museum. He questions how the Hirshhorn museum got precedent over the Air and Space Museum that was ap- proved in the mid-1940s, but had been 20 The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, October 10, 1970 C_ held up in the 1960s because of the cost of the Vietnam war. If war costs made it impossible to construct a universally-approved Air and Space Museum, Goldwater asks, how is it possible for the Johnson administration to find money for & monument to some- $15,000,000.00 one who is not SO universally approved. Shipley Should Be Questioned cluff Juli Certainly Joe Hirshhorn should be called before the House subcommittee onthieslihern give an accounting under oath of his background. Also, Secretary Ripley should be que tioned in detail about some questions while be is the Dreuts "conflicts of interest" that have been raised because Gordon Bunshaft, a men- ber of the Washington Fine Arts Com- one does tend - of The United stall mission, was awarded the contract to de sign the Joseph 11. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The Washington Fine Arts Commission had to approve the design and approve the new modern istic structure that has been the subject of much critical comment. It has been pointed out that pendit further explanation there IS at least memorial question as to whether Joe Hurshher life would be universally saluted as of those "sages and heroes" who be honored on the mall 50 the youts the nation might find inspiration and ample to guide them. (Copyright, The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1970) Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 60 CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Sun., Mar. 28, 1971 MOLLENHOFF CLARK How U.S. bends law for Baltimore firm WASHINGTON - The government's dealings with the Pi- which he is connected when the impropriety involved was Broyhill, dismissed the 1954 conviction as being far enough racci Construction Co. is a classic case of how far the General performed within the course of his official duty, or with the back that "it cannot ordinarily be used to support a current Service Administration can bend the knowledge or approval of the business firm." debarment." The GRA also noted the federal judge did not rules if it wants to do business with a Not only has Piracci been permitted to do business with the impose the maximum prison term and fine on the 1969 con- company involved in violations of the government, but in the face of a record of proved bribery, viction and that "the six months' sentence presumably recog- law. perjury and falsification of records, Piracci has been per- nized the fact that Piracci had co-operated with the govern- Ordinarily, a company can be sus- mitted to increase his bid on the Hirshhorn project by $754,375. ment." pended from doing business with the The GSA accepted Piracci's explanation that a "clerical er- government for up to 18 months if ror" had resulted in a lower bid than he intended. Piracci was But the GSA overlooked the comments of U.S. District fraud is suspected. If found guilty, still the low bidder, but by a narrower margin. Judge Alexander Harvey II, who said as he sentenced Piracci: the company can be debarred from In 1954, Piracci was convicted of fraud and obstructing jus- "You lied to the FBI, the United States attorney and the dealing with the government for tice in an off-street parking scandal in Baltimore. Piracci paid federal grand jury. A man who has a prior criminal ine three years. a $4,000 fine on that conviction and was later pardoned. In volvement and who has lied can hardly expect leniency However, Robert Kunzig, the ad- 1969, Piracci was convicted in the U.S. District Court in Balti- from the court." ministrator of GSA, has made it pos- more on charges of having made a payoff to Guido Iozzi Jr., The GSA also told Broyhill, "Finally, to the best of our sible for the Piracci company, of Bal- the president of the Baltimore Building Trades Council, AFL- knowledge, it has not been legally established whether Mr. timore, to continue doing business CIO. Piracci was fined $5,000 and given 183 days in prison. Piracci or the firm made any illegal payments to a former with the government despite repeated CLARK MOLLENHOFF Another indictment has been returned against Joseph P. employe of the Post Office Department." law violations. The GSA has minified Doberty, executive assistant to the assistant postmaster gen- Apparently the GSA did not ask the prosecutor, who could the fact that Dominic A. Piracci, the owner of the construction eral in charge of post office bureau facilities. Piracci was not have told them Piracci admitted making payments of at least company, has a record of fraud convictions. a defendant in this case, but the indictment charged that Do- $3,000 to Doherty and a total payoff of $20,000 was discussed. Piracci has simply stepped out as president and director herty took large sums of cash from Piracci to provide in- The GSA and other government agencies aren't often sa and has turned management over to other businessmen "for a fluence for Piracci Construction Co. tolerant of fraud or so understanding of the lines between period of time which will extend six months beyond the com- Doherty entered a "no contest" plea to the ninth count of the control and ownership of a company. Apparently Piracci is pletion of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens." indictment on "conflicts of interest" that charged he "did receiving some unusual understanding at a high level in Wash Piracci's company holds the $15 million general contract for knowingly act as agent" of Piracci and the firm "in con- ington. the controversial Hirshhorn project, in Washington, and is nection with applications, contracts, and other particular mat- His penalty for having previous convictions will be that he supposed to make more than $1 million in profit. ters involving the leasing of various post office facilities." won't be allowed to pick up the profits on the Hirshhorn projec Looking at the law and the background of Piracci, there In dealing with Piracci's record, the GSA, in its letter to until at least six months after it is completed. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum would have been enough reason to debar the Piracci firm from bidding on the project. The counsel for the GSA Region 3 office had indeed recommended debarment. The law author- izes the suspension of "all known affiliates of a concern or individual" who has been convicted. The law further states: "The criminal, fraudulent or seriously improper conduct of one individual may be imputed to the business firm with CLARK MOLLENHOFF Teamster pension fund facing new scrutiny? WASHINGTON The $850 million teamsters union pension trustees have been able to escape with no more than a little will testify on what he knows about millions of dollars in loans fund, formerly controlled by jailed teamsters boss James R. bad publicity on bad management of funds that are being held made over the last 20 years. Hoffa, could be the next center of attention in the wake of the for a large segment of the 2,000,000 members of the Inter- Hoffa could supply a lot of the answers if he will do it, but precedent-setting federal court ruling in a case involving the national Brotherhood of Teamsters. he is likely to take the Fifth Amendment unless there is some United Mine Workers pension funds. Control of this fund, that will soon surpass the billion-dollar promise of immunity. Anyone who is familiar with the Chi- The frauds, conflicts of interest, and general conspiracy the mark, has been a major issue in the tug-o-war over the presi- cago trial transcript can tell that Hoffa was the deciding fig- federal court found in the 20 years of admininstration of the dency of the union. ure on loans from the teamsters pension fund. In a criminal UMW funds can be duplicated in the handling of the Team- Hoffa was one of the trustees of the huge fund at the time he trial, that fact made it obvious why other trustees were not sters Union's Central States, Southeast, Southwest Area Pen- was convicted of conspiracy to engage in mail and wire frauds PRESERVATION COPY indicted as co-conspirators. sion Fund. on at least $20 million in questionable loans. It was contended that Hoffa and some of his business associates arranged more However, in a civil litigation similar to the one involving Until the ruling by District Court Judge Gerhard A. Gesell in than $1 million in kickbacks from these loans with most of it mine workers funds all of the trustees have the same obliga- the District of Columbia on April 28, there had been a general being made in cash. tion to protect the pension funds, and all could be liable. The belief that any class action by union members against union The fact that the teamsters fund is now under probe by a burden of proof will be on the teamsters lawyers and the officers was a futile gesture. But, Judge Gesell's decision broke new ground in the ruling federal grand jury in New York is an indication that Justice trustees to prove that they exercised reasonable care to pro- Department lawyers believe the mismanagement of the team- tect the member's pension money. that W.A. (Tony) Boyle, president of the UMW and trustee of the pension fund, must be ousted from fund control by June 30. sters funds did not end with the jailing of Hoffa in 1967, any The record of the Hoffa trial in Chicago indicates that a more than the death of John L. Lewis in 1969 ended the con- severe challenge to their claim of reasonable care could be The judge also found that Josephine Roche, the 84-year-old mounted. administrator of the fund since its organization in 1950, is spiracy on UMW funds. involved in a basic conflict of interest when she also sits as a Although there would be a statute of limitations on criminal fund trustee. action against Hoffa and any others who knowingly took part Lewis called major force in a conspiracy with him, there is no such time limitation on The Gesell ruling also states that the so-called employers' damage suits against Hoffa, the other trustees, the business- trustees sitting on the fund board cannot abdicate responsi- men who made kickbacks, or the lawyers who were advising bility as trustees. the union that there was no conflict of interest or liability. While Boyle was found to have failed in his trustee duty, the There are big stakes involved as Hoffa goes before a federal Gesell opinion stated that John L. Lewis, who died on June 11, grand jury in New York and makes the decision on whether he 1969, was the major force in control of the pension fund. The judge said Lewis was responsible for the decisions to place the Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum union's funds in the union-owned National Bank of Washington in a non interest-bearing account. This was "more than a mistake of judgement" in the handling of the funds, the court found. The UMW ruling could have a strong impact on the oper- ation of the teamster union pension funds if individual team- ster members would use evidence already on file concerning 12 CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Sun., May 9, 1971 illegal uses of their pension funds. Hoffa's present jail term involves his misuse of his position as trustee of the Central States, Southeast, Southwest Area Pension Fund. He has been proven guilty of crimimal fraud in connection with the administration of at least $20 million in loans from the fund. The loans involved in the criminal trial in Chicago were only a small part of the total pension funds and it has been esti- mated in the Justice Department that other-loans totaling as much as $100 million have been involved in questionable, if not illegal, arrangements for "finders fees". One of largest funds The huge teamster fund now is one of the nation's largest pension funds. Although Hoffa has been jailed, the other THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON 9/7 TO: To HSBA file (Date) FROM: JOHN DEAN ACTION: DUE DATE: Prepare Reply For John Dean's Signature Direct Reply Comments/Recommendations Please handle Information File REMARKS: No response at Mis time- - use can't win with Lob- Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON DATE Aug. 30. TO: John Dean FROM: HERBERT G. klein Margita White fyi PLEASE handle X PLEASE REVIEW AND SEE ME OTHER: Herb Klein asked the attached be sent to you. Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Date Sept 4 TO: JUD FROM: Fred F. Fielding ACTION: Approval/Signature Comments/Recommendations Prepare Response Please Handle For Your Information File should is JWD REMARKS: Do you sent Think to these any short - of pardan, will response tever be said or done l Loeb course or we have juneture not satisf the usted" " letters or becauses usual Sent live interest is on several Wariations) ? Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum The White House Wanhington WHB ø86 (11)LA124 L SAA268 BG (K MTAØ73) LM PDB MANCHESTER NHAMP 24 212P EDTM THE PRESIDENT 5.24 as SS WHITEHOUSE WASHDC МООЯ JIAM MHILE NONSE MS I MOST VIGOROUSLY URGE YOU TO COMMUTE SENTENCE 0 TIME SERVED OR PREFERABLY PARDON JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE INTL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: 1. THE FEDERAL PAROLE BOARD HAS JUST IRRESPONSIBLY TURNED DOWN MR HOFFA'S THIRD APPEAL FOR PAROLE AND EVIDENCING SUCH PREJUDICE AGAINST MR HOFFAS AS TO DISQUALIFY THEM FOR EVER 3 BEING ABLE TO GIVE A FAIR DECISION IN THE HOFF CASE. FORM 0805 PRINTED BY THE STANDARD REGISTER COMPANY, U. S. A. 2. MR HOFFA HAS NOW BEEN IN THE LEWISBURG FEDERAL PENTITENTIARY FOR FOUR AND ONE HALF YEARS FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT. THE CHIEF GOVERNMENT WITNESS AGAINST HIM HAS GIVEN A STATEMENT 2 BEFORE REPUTABLE WITNESSES THAT HIS TESTIMONY WAS FALSE ANE THAT HE WAS FORCED TO GIVE THIS FALSE TESTIMONY UNDER THREAT FROM THE OFFICIALS FROM THE DEPT OF JUSTICE. 3. IN SPITE OF HIS UNJUSHIMPRISONMENT MR HOFFA HAS BEEN, AS HAD BEEN ADMITTED BY ALL CONCERNED, A MODEL PRISONER, DEEPLY CONCERNED WIH THE WELFARE OF HIS FELLOW PRISONERS. 4. MR HOFFA HAS RASIGNED AS HEAD OF THE INTL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS AND HE HAS RESIGNED AS HEAD OF THE CENTRAL STATES CONFERENCE OF THE TEAMSTERS. HE HAS RESIGNED AS HEAD OF THE MICHIGAN COUNCIL OF THE TEAMSTERS. HE HAS RESIGNED ALL HIS 3 OFFICES FROM HIS OWN LOCAL 299 IN FETROIT. MR HOFFA HAS THUS GIVEN UP THE FRUITS OF HIS LIFETIME WORK OF 37 YEARS WITH TEAMSTERS. FORM 0805 PRINTED BY THE STANDARD REGISTER COMPANY, U. S. A. THIS, PLUS HIS 4 1/2 YEARS OF INCARCERATION FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT CERTAINLY ENTITLES HIM TO AT LEAST ENJOY FREEDOM. 2 BY A STROKE OF A PEN, YOU CAN GIVE HIM THAT FREEDOM TO WHICH HE IS ENTITLED. I URGE YOU TO DO SO NOW WILLIAM LOEB PUBLISHER MANCHESTER UNION LEADER. 3 FORM 0805 PRINTED BY THE STANDARD REGISTER COMPANY, U. S. A. 2 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum NEW HAMPSHIRE MANCHESTER UNION LEADER NEW HAMPSHIRE SUNDAY NEWS New Hampshire's Largest The State's Only Daily Newspaper "There Is Nothing NON LEADER So Powerful As Truth" 1 Sunday Newspaper UNION LEADER CORPORATION MANCHESTER, N. H. 03105 DISTRINK UNITED WILLIAM LOEB AREA CODE 603-625-5432 Sunday PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER Date 15el TSJUA August 25, 1971 (telephone dict. ) Mr. Herbert Klein The White House Washington, D.C. Dear Herb: The attached editorial speaks for itself. Don't tell me the Parole Board is an independent federal organization and you have no control over it. I find, interestingly enough, that people who do not hap- pen to like my newspaper or Jim Hoffa are equally outraged at this situation. Very sincerely, BiLL WL:Mrs.G.K.Lynch William Loeb enc. President P.S. Also note, on the same front page, my telegram to the President. B. THE STATE NEWSPAPERS COVERING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE MARKET DAILY and SUNDAY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Loel Charges Prejudice Asks Hoffa Pardon Mancl ster Union Leader and(in a telegram sent to President for parole and evidencing such New Hampshire Sunday News Nixon at the White House in San prejudice against Mr. Hoffa as Published William Loeb has Clemente, Calif. to disqualify them for ever petitiones President Richard Among the reasons Loeb being able to give a fair Nixon pardon James R. listed in his telegram for decision in the Hoffa case. Hoffa, mer president of the making his request of the Chief Internat Brotherhood of -"Mr. Hoffa has now been in Executive were: Teamsters or at least commute the Lewisburg Federal peniten- -"The Federal Parole Board his sentance to time served. tiary for 4½ years for a crime has just irresponsibly turned he didn't commit. The chief Loeb equest was contained down Mr. Hoffa's third appeal government witness against him has given a statement before reputable witnesses that his An Editorial testimony was false and that he was forced to give this false testimony under threat from The Incredible officials of the Department of Justice. -"In spite of his unjust Hoffa Case imprisonment, Mr. Hoffa has been, as has been admitted by all concerned, a model prisoner, deeply concerned with the wel- Incredible as it may seem, the Federal Pa- fare of his fellow prisoners. role Board has turned down Mr. Hoffa's third HOFFA Page 21 application for pa- role It's all the moreincredible be- Pension Plan cause, since his last application for pa- role) Mr. Hoffa has Action Delayed resigned the presi- deney of the Inter- By J. LEO DERY national Brother- The establishment of a con- hood of Teamsters tributory pension plan for all municipal employes may have Quo Vadis? Two workmen and has declined to on the New En- to wait for the 1973 session gland Telephone building project on run for the office of the Legislature, it was dis- IIIIII fromprison-which closed today. he could have done. Members of the Board of Hadine done so, he Mayor and Aldermen and a Labor at Home, Trade With would have been representative of the actu- arial firm of Hooker and Hol- reelected. combe met with a special com- Mr. Hoffa also mittee of the Manchester del- resigned from the egation in the Legislature last 2 Threats Fa night at City Hall. presidency of the MR. HOFFA PENSION PLAN Midwest Confer- Page 21 WASHINGTON (UPI) Pres- and a grov ence of Teamsters. ident Nixon's economic pro- retaliation fro He resigned from the presidency of the Bilodeau Enters gram was' beset by two new rope. perils today, a fresh threat But Comr Michigan Conference of Teamsters. from organized labor at home Maurice H. S1 And Mr. Hoffa also resigned from his of- fices-in Local 299, his home local in Detroit. Mayoralty Race Thus, Mr. Hoffa gave up the accomplish- Alphonse R. Bilodeau of Dun- ments which he had worked a lifetime to barton Road announced today Opening Dates S achieve during his 37-year association with the he will be a candidate for the D e m ocratic nomination for AN EDITORIAL Page 14 mayor at the October 5 pri- For All City Sc mary. This will be his second our Reasons All elcmentary and junior at the respe attempt at the mayoralty. The 61-year old West Sider was an high pupils and most high facilities. unsuccessful candidate for the school students in the Man- Students in democratic nomination back in elementary chester public school system SCHOOLS BILODEAU Page 21 will report to classes on Sited in Wire Wednesday, Sept. 8 for the Granite State Sets opening of school, according Redistri to School Superintendent Cold Mark For US To Go B Henry J. McLaughlin. text of the telegram from Publisher Wil- Meanwhile, the opening date The coldest temperatures Legislat liam Loeb to President Richard Nixon follows: for Manchester's parochial reported in the continental school pupils is Tuesday, Sept. A tentative The President United States were right 7, the day after Labor Day. chester's wa The White House here in New Hampshire At the same t ime, basis of the where lows of 36 degrees San Clemente, California McLaughlin announced that sus has beer were recorded at Concord registration for new pupils will be subn Imost vigorously urge you to commute sentence and Lebanon this morning. will be conducted daily from member sub to time served, or preferably pardon James Riddle It will be warmer tonight, Aug. 30 through Sept. 3 from 9 Manchester ( however, with lows of 45 Hoffa, former president of the International Brother- a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Legislature to 50 forecast by the Na- called for to hood of Teamsters, for the following reasons: tional Weather Service of- The meeti 1. The Federal Parole Board has just irresponsi- fice at Concord. Observers Today's Chuckle in Courtroor bly turned down Mr. Hoffa's third appeal for parole indicated a "threat" of Manchester showers for tomorrow night Sign in a gas station: Road City Hall An THLEGRAM Page 14 and Friday. Maps Refolded. REDISTRIC PRESERVATION COPY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum MANCHESTER (N. H.) UNION LEADER I HOFFA which he is entitled. I urge you and associates were under the to do so now." impression he would gain his Extended Forecast PEN (Gontinued from Page One) In a companion editorial freedom if they were polite and (Conti which appeared on the front said "pretty please." BOSTON - UPI - Today's Mr. Hoffa has resigned as page of both editions of today's These methods haven't National Weather Service ex- Hous head of the International Manchester Union Leader en- worked, wrote Loeb, so the time Brotherhood of Teamsters. He titled "The Incredible Hoffa tended forecast for New Eng- troduce has, resigned as head of the Case," Loeb charged the reason has come to apply pressure, land predicts a chance of rain Martine Hoffa hasn't been released on "This seems to be the only Friday ending in most sec- to incl Central States Conference of parole is because he is not a thing to which the present tions early Saturday followed made 1 Teamsters. He has resigned as regular prisoner, but a political administration responds," the by clearing and fair skies the ald head of the Michigan Council of prisoner. editorial continued. Sunday. of som Teamsters. He has resigned all The publisher pointed out that The publisher called for the Daytime high temperatures and me his offices from his own Local time after time, the U.S. establishment of a national are expected to be in the low tive CO1 299 in Detroit. Mr. Hoffa has Supreme Court and other courts committee to free the former to mid 70s Friday and mid 70s R. Stan thus given up the fruits of his in this country have freed, on Teamster head. in northern areas to low 80s The lifetime work of 37 years with technicalities connected with "It is an objective in which the south Saturday and be mad the Teamsters. their trials murderers such as all Americans should be inter- Sunday. Overnight lows should of last "This plus his 4½ years of the man who killed a group of ested because, as Mr. Hoffa range from the upper 50 in said, h incarceration for a crime he did nurses in Chicago, as well as said years ago when on the the north to mid 60s south. vision V not commit, certainly entitles other violent criminals who are verge of going to prison, if this employ him to at least enjoy freedom." turned loose on society for can be done to him it can be ists, revolutionaries are let go of the irrelevant and sentimental rea- done to any American citizen." the cou "Entitled To Freedom" sons while Hoffa, who is ac- free to stalk our streets but a Loeb concluded his telegram The editorial contended that "We cused of no crime of violence, man whom the administration as follows: the Hoffa case offers a clear remains imprisoned. and what is known as the been p indication of the sorry state of revised "By a stroke of a pen, you Loeb wrote in his editorial American justice today. Establishment do not like can 22 sessi can give him that freedom to that many of Hoffa's supporters "Murderers, rapists, arson- rot in jail, for all they care." Mayor AND BONUS SPECIALS BEDFORD, N.H. DANIEL WEBSTER HIGHWAY OPEN MON. thru SAT. 9 AM to 10 PM J. M. Fields USDA Choice Meat - Guaranteed Tender! USDA SOLD IN UNITS OF 5 LBS. or MORE CHOICE FRESH GROUND HAMBURG LB. USDA CHOICE BONELESS BACK BAY PRESERVATION COPY CHUCK ROAST LB 88c SLICED BACON 1 PI Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 14 MANCHESTER (N. H.) UNION LEADER - Wednesday Federal Parole Board is headed by a man called ates ha George Reed, who once served as Director of saying " An Editorial Parole in the State of Nevada. During his tenure freedom much controversy was created in the State of four-and The Incredible Nevada regarding his performance. didn't d It seems quite evident to this newspaper Ob Hoffa Case that the Federal Parole Board and its chairman This see have succumbed to the Kennedy propaganda present and other false information put out by the Ken- IT (Continued from Page One) nedy publicity machine as regards Mr. Hoffa. TION ( Only a completely false impression of the for- FREE J Teamsters-but with no effect on the Parole mer president of the International Brotherhood JECTIV Board. of Teamsters could explain what this newspaper AMERI It is admitted by all concerned that Mr. considers their malicious and insane attitude CAUSE, Hoffa has been a model prisoner ever since the towards Mr. Hoffa and his application for free- WHEN first day he entered the federal penitentiary at dom. TO PRI Lewisburg. One of the strangest aspects of the parole HIM IT Why, therefore, has Mr. Hoffa not been re- hearing, from what this newspaper has been CAN CI leased on parole? There is only one possible an- able to learn, is the Parole Board's apparent In 1 swer and that is that Mr. Hoffa is not a regular criticism of the fact that Mr. Hoffa's son, James us a clea prisoner-he is a POLITICAL prisoner! P. Hoffa, is receiving a salary from the Interna- can justi In session after session the United States tional Teamsters Union as one of its lawyers. Mui Supreme Court and other courts of the land Young Jim Hoffa works hard for the union revolutic have turned loose, on mere technicalities, mur- and just what business it is of the Parole Board streets, 1 derers such as Richard Speck, the man who that he is receiving a salary for his labors is be- is know killed all the nurses in Chicago. Other violent criminals are turned loose on yond this newsnaper's comprehension. can ROT It is our understanding. also. that there was OF society for irrelevant and sentimental reasons. criticism of Mrs. Hoffa who receives a salary for SOLVE But Mr. Hoffa, who is accused of no crime her activities on behalf of DRIVE. (These ini- HAS TH of violence, who has been a model prisoner, who tials stand for Democratic, Republican, Indepen- TION OI has severed all his past union connections, is dent Voter Education. DRIVE is the organiza- ALSO To kept in prison. Entirely aside from the injustice tion which is responsible for bringing many Con of the matter, it makes no sense whatsoever to groups, especially the wives of Teamsters, to of the D any logical mind. THE ONLY WAY MR. HOFFA'S CONTIN- Washington, where they are informed on the administ political processes and advocate certain legisla- ment Mr UED IMPRISONMENT CAN BE EXPLAINED tive action which they think will be of benefit to fering of IS THAT HE MUST BE A POLITICAL PRIS- the Teamster members.) Mrs. Hoffa has long pardon is ONER. engaged in the leadership of the DRIVE organ- How Mr. Hoffa, first of all, was framed by ization. ing wron the late Attorney General Kennedy and im- What business is it of the Parole Board that 15,000,00 prisoned on the basis of perjured testimony. The Mrs. Hoffa is being paid by DRIVE for her not seen man who GAVE that perjured testimony, Ed- work? uation an ward Grady Partin, has now admitted that the Next there was the question of why Mr. testimony he gave was false and has said it was Hoffa would receive a pension from the Team- given only because the then officials of the De- sters Union. partment of Justice threatened him with prison Since Mr. Hoffa has worked 37 YEARS for if he declined to testify as they wanted him to various Teamster organizations, during which testify. time he acquired certain pension rights, it is Yet, in spite of the fact that Edward Grady utterly incredible that the Parole Board should Partin gave this statement, which he has never object to this! denied giving-he simply said he didn't see the Wande APPARENTLY THE PAROLE BOARD IS statement and didn't sign it, which is perfectly OF SUCH A VINDICTIVE MIND THAT ITS true because he left town before the official ste- EFFINGHA] MEMBERS WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOUNG nographer had typed it up-and in spite of the old Lynn, Mas JIM HOFFA DEPRIVED OF HIS INCOME unhut yester fact that this statement was given before a num- FROM THE TEAMSTERS, MRS. HOFFA DE- wandered awa ber of reputable witnesses, the Department of PRIVED OF HER INCOME AND MR. HOFFA ly's campsite ( Justice under Attorney General Mitchell has the Plains Ro: DEPRIVED OF HIS PENSION! THEN IF THE never lifted one single finger to investigate these Horn Camping HOFFA FAMILY WENT ON WELFARE, PRE- charges of corruption and the suborning of Par- N. H. Dept SUMABLY THIS WOULD SATISFY THE PA- officials identi tin under a previous administration. ROLE BOARD'S DESIRE TO GRIND THE bekah A. McL IN OTHER WORDS, THE NIXON ADMIN- HOFFA FAMILY INTO THE MUD OF OBLIV- Mrs. Cynthia ISTRATION IS PERFECTLY WILLING TO Union Court. ION. HAVE THE PRESIDENT FLY HALF-WAY PRESERVATION COPY Authorities Many of Mr. Hoffa's supporters and associ- notified of the AROUND THE WORLD TO SHAKE THE HANDS OF BLOODY KILLERS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF ANY- WHERE FROM 15,000,000 TO 30,000,000 PEO- ROUTE PLE. THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD POLI- Daniel Webste TICS. YOU UNDERSTAND, AND TO IMPRESS OPEN M THE FOLKS BACK HOME. HOWEVER, WHEN IT COMES TO INVES- TUE. & WED TIGATING THE INJUSTICE DONE TO JAMES T RIDDLE HOFFA, THEY COULDN'T CARE Stores in: Hooks LESS. MR. NIXON MAKES PONTIUS PILATE LOOK LIKE A PIKER! Bring Your Rc discount As for the Federal Parole Board, this news- We'll Cut To I paper's contempt for it is beyond expression. The rug centers Or Arrange PRESERVATION ESER COPY LOWEST PRICES AROUND ON FIRST QU Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum N LEADER - Wednesday, August 25, 1971 nan called ates have thought that being very polite and TELEGRAM irector of saying "pretty please" would gain Mr. Hoffa the his tenure freedom he obviously deserves after spending (Continued from Page One) State of four-and-a-half years in jail for something he and evidenced such prejudice against Mr. Hoffa as didn't do. But these methods have not worked. to disqualify them from ever being able to give a newspaper Obviously, now it is time to apply pressure. fair decision in the Hoffa case. chairman This seems to be the only thing to which the 'opaganda present administration responds. 2. Mr. Hoffa has now been in the Lewisburg if the Ken- IT IS TIME, ALSO, FOR THE FORMA- Federal Penitentiary for four and a half years for a Mr. Hoffa. TION OF A NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO crime he did not commit. The chief government wit- of the for- FREE JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA. IT IS AN OB- ness against him has given a statement before re- 'otherhood JECTIVE IN WHICH ALL FAIR-MINDED putable witnesses that his testimony was false and newspaper AMERICANS SHOULD BE INTERESTED BE- that he was forced to give this false testimony under e attitude CAUSE, AS MR. HOFFA SAID YEARS AGO threat from officials of the Department of Justice. n for free- WHEN HE WAS ON THE VERGE OF GOING 3. In spite of his unjust imprisonment Mr. Hoffa TO PRISON. IF THIS COULD BE DONE TO has been, as has been admitted by all concerned, a the parole HIM IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANY AMERI- model prisoner, deeply concerned with the welfare has been CAN CITIZEN. of his fellow prisoners. apparent In the final analysis, the Hoffa case gives 4. Mr. Hoffa has resigned as head of the Inter- son, James us a clear indication of the sorry state of Ameri- national Brotherhood of Teamsters. He has resigned le Interna- can justice today. as head of the Central States Conference of the lawyers. Murderers, rapists, arsonists and assorted Teamsters. He has resigned as head of the Michigan the union revolutionaries are let go, free to stalk our Council of Teamsters. He has resigned all his offices role Board streets, but a man the administration and what from his own Local 299 in Detroit. Mr. Hoffa has bors is be- is known as "the Establishment" do not like thus given up the fruits of his lifetime work of 37 D. can ROT in jail. for all they care. years with the Teamsters. This, plus his four and a there was OF COURSE, THE PRESIDENT COULD half years of incarceration for a crime he did not salary for SOLVE THE WHOLE HOFFA PROBLEM. HE commit, certainly entitles him to at least enjoy free- (These ini- HAS THE POWER TO GRANT A COMMUTA- dom. By a stroke of a pen, you can give him that 1, Indepen- TION OF SENTENCE TO TIME SERVED AND freedom to which he is entitled. I urge you to do organiza- ALSO TO GRANT A FULL PARDON. SO now. ging many Considering the irregularities on the part William Loeb, Publisher amsters, to of the Department of Justice during a previous Manchester Union Leader ed on the administration, and considering the imprison- ain legisla- ment Mr. Hoffa has SO far endured and the suf- f benefit to fering of his family, it would seem that a full HUDSON'S- 1 has long pardon is in order. 1097 ELM ST. [VE organ- However, while President Nixon sees noth- ing wrong in shaking hands with the killers of MANCHESTER, N. H. Board that 15,000,000 to 30,000,000 Chinese, he has so far Open Daily 9:30 to 5:30-Mon. & Thurs. till 9 E for her not seen fit to face the injustice of the Hoffa sit- uation and do something about it. f why Mr. the Team- YEARS for fashions PRESERVATION COPY FOR BACK William TO ring which William Loeb, Publisher SCHOOL ights, it is ard should BOARD IS Wandering Girl Found Quickly THAT ITS EFFINGHAM - A two-year- pearance at about 1:30 p.m. and E YOUNG old Lynn, Mass., girl was found located her approximately an ; INCOME unhut yesterday after she hour later on the west side of OFFA DE- wandered away from her fami- the road. R. HOFFA ly's campsite on the east side of She was found a short dis- the Plains Road near the Buck tance from the road near a EN IF THE Horn Camping area. grassy, marshy area, authori- ARE, PRE- N. H. Dept of Fish & Game tes said. I THE PA- officials identified her as Re- Nearly 40 persons, comprised RIND THE bekah A. McLean, daughter of of Fish & Game, State Police, OF OBLIV- Mrs. Cynthia J. McLean, of 26 local police and fire personnel, Union Court. as well as a number of Authorities said they were volunteers, took part in the and associ- notified of the chield's disap- search. ROUTE 3, HOOKSETT, N. H. Daniel Webste H'Way N., Next Merchants Motors OPEN MON., THU., FRI. 9:30 TO 9 TUE. & WED. TO 6 P.M., SAT. TO 5 P.M. TELEPHONE 669-5090 SKIRTS $10.00 Stores in: Hooksett, Nashua, Dover, Lowell, No. Andover JEANS $7.00 Library and Museum The Washington Merry-Go-Round THE WASHINGTON POST Monday, June 7, 1971 D11 Audie Murphy Sought to Free Hoffa By Jack Anderson and the Teamsters boss can be associates even produced a let- pro-Hoffa testimony from such traced back to Hoffa's 1964 ter-believed to be a forgery questionable witnesses as The war hero and movie conviction for attempting to bribe a Nashville jury. -bearing the signature of the prostitutes and known crimi- star Audie Murphy, who will The key witness against him President and praising Partin nals had hurt Hoffa's cause. be buried in Arlington ceme- was Edward Grady Partin, a for coming forward on Hoffa's When Hoffa's parole hearing tery today, will take with him Baton Rouge, La., Teamsters behalf. came, the Teamsters' lawyers to the grave information that leader and intimate of Hoffa. Finally on the night of did not introduce the Partin might have freed Jimmy Until this March, Partin stuck March 27, Partin dictated a firmly to his story that Hoffa statement. Hoffa. statement in the presence of Or it could have backfired tried to bribe the jurors. But five persons in which he Nevertheless, Audie Murphy as Hoffa's parole hearing drew claimed he had been bullied went ahead and got ex-Sen. and kept the Teamsters boss near, pressure was brought on by the Justice Department into George Murphy (R-Calif.) to in Lewisburg, Pa., federal Partin to change his testi- testifying falsely against prison, where he is serving a mony. Hoffa. pass the statement on to top White House aides and to At- combined 13-year sentence. Friends of Hoffa ap- The statement, which Partin torney General John Mitchell. The film star recently proached Partin with promises neither signed nor swore, al- helped to persuade the key that they could get the Nixon leged that he had been given Since the parole hearing, Hoffa's lawyers have been government witness in Hoffa's administration to lift federal daily written instructions by trying to get Partin to make a 1964 trial to repudiate his tes- charges now pending against the government on what to timony. But a few weeks be- him. sworn, signed statement be- say against Hoffa. It said the fore a lawyer familiar with fore he died, Murphy received Justice Department even pro- evidence that the repudiation Murphy's Maneuver vided the matches with which the jury-tampering case who would be able to weed out in- was false. to burn the instructions. One approach was made by accuracies. We have now had access to We have obtained a copy of Audie Murphy, who had filed the 31-page statement. It is And Audie Murphy, until the evidence submitted to Murphy. It indicates the wit- for bankruptey in 1968 and shot through with factual er- his tragic death, was also rors. Moreover, we have evi- working to get a more plausi- ness lied when he backtracked was strapped for cash. His as- ble affidavit from Partin al- on his testimoney against sociates told us Murphy was dence that some of the Hoffa allies who were pressing Par- though, according to a trusted Hoffa. Yet Murphy ignored hoping to get a Teamster loan friend, he was convinced that this evidence and sought a sec- to bail out his business inter- tin to give the statement knew ond statement from the wit- perfectly well that it was a Partin was lying to get him- ests. self off the hook in the case ness, plugging up some of the Murphy used all his Holly- fake. pending against him. inconsistencies in his original wood charm to persuade Par- Footnote: The Justice De- statement. tin to recant his 1964 testi- Suspicious Statement partment has denied that Par- The weird skein of events mony/As evidence the Nixon At Teamster Headquarters, tin was ever coached in his that weaves together the most administration might be leni- Partin's statement regarded testimony against Hoffa. decorated World War II hero ent with him, one of Murphy's with suspicion because earlier 1971, Bell-McClure Syndicate, Inc. (Prices Hrein Effective Thru Tuesday, 6-8-71 PRESERVATION COPY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum AUDIE MURPHY Continued from Third Page which he starred failed. and "The Quiet Ameri- In 1970 Murphy was ac- can." quitted in a trial charged Most of the others were with assault with intent to "B" westerns. commit murder stemming He was not the most ac- from a brawl with a dog complished actor in Holly- trainer over a fee. A wood but the critics were charge this year of pos- sessing illegal blackjacks generally kind. was dropped after he ar- A critic once explained gued he had authority to Murphy's eventual disap- have them as a special of- pearance from the movie ficer with two law enforce- scene this way: ment agencies. He and his second wife "As the images of World Pamela, a former Braniff War II faded and the anti- Airlines stewardess, lived heroes took over - the in the San Fernando Val- Paul Newmans, Marlon ley and raised two sons, Terry, 19, and James, 17. Brandos, Rod Steigers- Audie Leon Murphy was the real hero became an born June 20, 1924, the anachronism." sixth of nine children, on a The luck that kept Mur- farm near Kingston, Tex. phy alive on the battle, The death of his parents fields also faded with the left him an orphan at 16, years. and he went to work at He lost $260,000 in an d near Roanoke, Va. $16 a week in a radio re- Algerian oil venture. Resi- (AP) Wirephoto pair shop. duals from TV showings On his 18th birthday, af- of his old movies were at- ter being turned down by tached by the Internal the Marine Corps because uthorities pointed out Revenue Service for back he was undeweight, he DeLong, like the vic- taxes. A TV series in joined the Army, was a drifter and was incarcerated to Internatio him available. rona's possible motive La plume de ma tante GOLF the slayings was dis- ed Monday by a high Won't help at all but our audio-visual Travel Class ar County official who is prepared to double the pleasure of your travel ned to be identified. abroad Phone SCHOO 657-8230 le official confirmed er speculation that in- SCHOOL OF THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE MON. THRU FRI. 9-9; gators believe that 411 n. la cienega, los angeles 90048 killings came because orona's desire to ob- the victims' welfare nts, The source de- discuss details of ctions. WORLD'S PRESERVATION COPY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Jimmy Hoffa Asks President To Commute 2 Sentences Los Angeles Times President Nixon has issued lowed up immediately by a Former Teamsters Union few pardons or commutations commutation application, a President James R. Hoffa since last Christmas, and a necessary first step. has asked President Nixon to backlog of applications has commute his two prison sen- built up. Flu Is Spreading tences. Lawrence M. Traylor, the The application by Hoffa, In E. Germany Justice Department's pardon Reuter now in Lewisburg (Pa.) Fed- secretary, has forwarded a eral Penitentiary with eight EAST BERLIN, Dec. 19-In- large number of clemency fluenza of the type which years remaining in his 13- petitions to Attorney General swept a number of East Euro- year sentence, could be acted John N. Mitchell for his re- pean countries in recent on by Mr. Nixon in time for months is now spreading in view and recommendation to the Christmas holidays. the south of East Germany, it Mr. Nixon. Traylor would not was officially reported today. Justice Department officials say whether the Hoffa applica- An article in the Communist would not confirm or deny tion was included. Party newspaper Neues yesterday that Hoffa has ap- After Hoffa's third bid for Deutschland said the outbreak plied for executive clemency. parole was rejected in August, was caused by the same A-2 But Hoffa's lawyer, Morris Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Team- virus responsible for influ- Shenker of St. Louis, acknowl- sters president, made a public enza waves in Romania, Bul- edged that the application had appeal to President Nixon to garia, Poland, and Czechoslo- been made and declined to dis- free his imprisoned predeces- vakia over the last two to close any details about it. sor. But his plea was not fol- three months. PRESERVATION COPY Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

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