big figures

 

--------- (excerpt from All The President's Men - Woodward and Bernstein, 1974, Simon & Schuster) ------------------

        "P" was Bart Porter; they were sure of that, they said.

        "He got a lot of money.  It was in $100 bills; everybody got $100 bills."

        Bernstein reminded her of a joke she had made--"We're Republicans, you know.  We deal in big figures."

        Porter, too, had gotten more than $50,000, she said.

        The Bookkeeper was disturbed by the narrowness of the indictments.  "I went down in good faith to the grand jury and testified and obviously the results are not there.  My feeling is that the FBI turns the information in and it goes upstairs. . . . I just want out now.  Hugh Sloan made the wisest decision of all.  He quit.  Mr. Stans said, 'I begged him to stay, but he wouldn't.'"

        She said that people had evaded the grand jury's questions:  "Rob Odle said to me after he'd come back from the grand jury, 'Don't you feel like you've been through the wringer?' And I said, 'No, and you wouldn't feel so bad if you'd tell them the whole truth.'". She wouldn't go into what Odle might have concealed.

        "The propaganda since the break-in has been, 'We have nothing to do with this and hold your head up high,'" she told the reporters as they left.

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