2 1970 MIKE McKEVITT Congressman Colorado Button Pin WATERGATE / Pat Schroeder

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2 nice Political Buttons Pins from COLORADO CONGRESSMAN MIKE McKEVITT
They are from
1970
The condition is nice showing some sign of age with some discoloration to the back
McKevitt served 2 years and was defeated by Pat Schroeder.
Interestingly, Congressman
McKevitt's
name came up in the Nixon Watergate Tapes per the following report:
The time is July, 1971. Daniel Ellsberg had leaked, and the New York Times had published the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000 page document regarding the war in Vietnam which, according to Kutler "threw considerable light on the differences between public knowledge of events and the government's actual conduct of the war."
President Richard Nixon was obsessed with getting revenge against the Democrats and wanted to embarrass previous Democratic presidents: Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis, Johnson over the Vietnam bombing halt, Truman over Korea, and Roosevelt over World War II, by gathering and leaking secret documents.
Nixon, Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman, plus Charles Colson, and John Ehrlichman gathered in the Oval Office to discuss who in Congress to use to distribute the leaks to the press.
James D. "Mike" McKevitt was a 43-year-old Republican from Denver who had served as Denver District Attorney and elected to Congress in November of 1970 over Democrat Craig Barnes, with 51.5 percent of the votes cast. Barnes had earlier defeated Rep. Byron Rogers in the 1970 Democratic primary.
The first person being considered to pass out leaks was Rep. John Rousselot (R-Cal.) about whom Nixon remarks
"Rousselot will be fine. He's mean, tough, ruthless. He'll lie, do anything. That's what you need."
"Haldeman: The other guy might be McKevitt, if he will do all those things."
"President Nixon: I'm not sure McKevitt is conservative enough. He's been a prosecutor. The question is, is he conservative?"
The group then discusses the type of person they want. Nixon wants someone to be another Sen. Joe McCarthy or another Sen. Bob Dole. Nixon had earlier rehashed for the group his role in the Alger Hiss case and how he had leaked information to the press and because of the Hiss case, ended up in the U.S. Senate.
"Haldeman: A congressman has such a great opportunity with this."
"Nixon: That's right. Bob is right."
"Haldeman: You take a pipsqueak like McKevitt or Rousselot that nobody has ever heard of, you can make --sonofabitch could make himself a Senator overnight."
I'm positive Mike McKevitt never knew his name was being bandied about in this "plot". McKevitt lost the 1972 election to Pat Schroeder, stayed in Washington and became a lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business.
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