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these were two guys, overage, and not in the best of proportions, bulging at the center with --

Q:

Trying to outmaneuver you.

Stanton:

And I laughed and I said, “Why do you guys come all the way up here and spend my money as a taxpayer to give me a summons or a subpoena when you could have served it on me in my representative in Washington?” But that I guess gives you some idea of the atmosphere that surrounded that particular investigation.

That was in the spring of '73, I believe, or maybe '72.

2It was the spring of 1971. “The Selling of the Pentagon” aired in February of 1971.

At any rate --

Q:

I think it was '72. I could be wrong.

Stanton:

Two or three?

Q:

I think it was two. I'll check it out.

Stanton:

I can't give a -- nothing comes to mind that fixes it in the year. But that was just before I retired. I guess it was '72, maybe. I don't know.

Q:

We'll check it out. No big deal.

Stanton:

But we were steadfast in refusing to give the information and shortly after the





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