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Associated Press
Democrats are beginning to take
pointed notice of federal investiga
tions into President Ford’s corporate
golfing trips and handling of cam
paign funds while he was in Con
gress.
While Jimmy Carter, at home for a
rest in Plains, Ga., has avoided di
rect comment, running mate Walter
F. Mondale and Democratic Na
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ticket.
Mondale, in Toledo, Ohio, said
Ford has been “ducking and hiding”
from questions about the probes.
Strauss chastised Republican vice-
presidential nominee Bob Dole for
suggesting that the investigations
were politically motivated.
The Watergate special prose
cutor’s office is exploring the records
ofFord’s home district GOP organi
zation in Kent County, Mich., re-
rortedly to check whether Ford, as a
congressman, illegally diverted
campaign contributions to personal
use by laundering the money
through local party groups.
In addition, the Securities and
Exchange Commission reportedly is
nvestigating golfing trips made by
Ford as a congressman. Those trips
were paid for by the U.S. Steel
Corp.
The White House said Tuesday
bat Ford had made trips to corpo-
ate golf courses while in Congress,
but Ford press secretary Ron Nessen
Jeclined to comment when asked if
Ford had, as a congressman, con-
zerted campaign funds to his per
sonal use.
Ford has not personally men
tioned the investigations and has not
been available for questions. Ford
remained at the White House on
Monday, meeting with foreign dig-
litaries, setting the scene for his
sext debate with Carter on the sub-
ect of foreign affairs.
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Nessen disclosed that Ford had
played golf on courses operated by
Firestone Tire, Bethlehem Steel and
Alcoa Aluminum.
He said he didn’t know if the com
panies paid for Ford’s expenses.
U.S. Steel reported last week that
it paid for three Ford golf outings in
New Jersey and for two visits to a
company guest house near Disney
World in Florida.
Explaining the golf outings, Nes
sen said, “The President is an avid
golfer. He has played with regularity
during his 26 years in Washington
and he has accepted invitations at
various clubs, which is customary.
He played with friends, and at other
times he invited his friends to be his
guests at his club.”
He said Ford quit accepting golf
ing trips when he became vice presi
dent in 1973. Asked why, Nessen
replied, “He’s in a different position
now. He was vice president then and
now he’s President. Before that, he
was a member of Congress.”
Mondale at first avoided questions
on the probes, saying: “I don’t think
I should be commenting on that until
I’m personally sure what the situa
tion is. Those questions shouldn’t be
put to me. They should be put to the
person in the White House. I am
told the President is unavailable for
comment. I’m told he won’t answer
questions.”
Then, in Toledo, he said Ford was
“ducking and hiding behind his
desk” and should answer questions
about the investigations.
Dole said Monday that the
Watergate prosecutor’s investiga
tion was “nothing but election year
politics.” Told about the White
House revelation about the corpo
rate golfing trips. Dole said he had
no information and could not discuss
it.
But Strauss said Dole’s remarks
about Watergate Prosecutor Charles
Ruff were off base.
“I would remind the public and
Sen. Dole that this is the very re
sponse Americans got from Nixon,
Agnew — and Dole — in 1972, cov
ering up the Watergate scandal until
after the election.”
Strauss said Dole and Ford have a
right to remain silent on the probes
but that “they do not have a right to
impugn the motives of the FBI, the
special prosecutor or Democratic
party officials.”
While Carter has not directly
commented on the Ford investiga
tions, he did refer Monday to politi
cal leadership that has been bogged
down in Washington for 25 to 30
years,” drawing advice, counsel and
financial support from lobbyists and
special interests that “belong to the
same clubs, play golf on the same
golf courses.”
Asked if his remarks were directed
at the Ford probes. Carter smiled
and said, “I’ll let you make the
judgment about that.”
In Plains, Carter studied for next
week’s debate and toured his peanut
warehouse, but he kept his remarks
mostly on the crop.
Carter has been advised by his top
aides to be more cautious when an
swering questions because of criti
cism of his statements in recent
interviews, including a controversial
discussion in Playboy magazine.
Meanwhile, Chip Carter, son of
the Democratic presidential
nominee, is on his version of a
whistle-stop campaign by airplane
through Texas with stops in Wichita
Falls, Abilene, Waco and San
Angelo defending Jimmy Carter’s
controversial Playboy magazine
interview.
Carter’s 23-year-old son, who has
campaigned for his father for 15
months, said in San Angelo last night
that his father’s remarks in the inter
view were taken out of context and
misunderstood.
The presidential candidate said in
a Playboy interview to be published
in the November edition, “I don’t
think I would ever take on the same
frame of mind that Nixon or Johnson
did — lying, cheating and distorting
the truth.”
The younger Carter contended, as
his mother Rosalynn Carter did last
week on her tour when excerpts of
the interview were first released,
that the remarks will be understood
once the entire article is read.
The young campaigner said earlier
in Wichita Falls, “Dad said three or
four real nice things about President
Johnson in that interview, and I have
never heard my father say one bad
thing about Lyndon Johnson.”
He told inquisitive audiences
across the state that he never read a
Playboy magazine in his life — but
he said he might read the November
issue.
After diverting questions about
the Playboy interview, young Carter
briefly outlined several of his father’s
policies and plans.
In San Angelo, Carter said his
father wants to make taxes “equita
ble for everyone. He defined the
average American income as $20,000
and said Jimmy Carter would try to
cut the average tax payer’s income
tax by 50 per cent.
Carter said in Wichita Falls that
the former Georgia governor would
introduce a new type of foreign pol
icy if elected President.
Young Carter said, “He would op
erate a very open foreign policy — so
that the American people know what
our foreign policy is. The mistakes
that we have made recently have
been due to the fact that the Ameri
can people did not know what was
going on.”
Wichita Falls Mayor J. C. Boyd
asked if the father really is a “free-
spending liberal” who will spend the
United States into ruin if elected.
Carter replied that his father is
dedicated to the concept of zero
based budgeting, reduced unem
ployment and a balanced budget by
1981.
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