WHITE HOUSE AIDES SCOFF AT IDEA OF ELITE CLUB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200980001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 10, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200980001-8
WASHINGTON POSIT
aND TIMES HERALD
JUN 10 1966
White House Aides Scoff
A
Idea OIL
Eite Cub
The White House yesterday
described a report that Dem-
ocratic Party contributors
could buy a gilt-edged invita-
tion to a formal White House
party as 'too ridiculous to
merit a comment."
Rowland Evans and Robert
Novak, in a column published
yesterday in The ,Washington
Post, reported that a new
41:91.1p,.,of 519,999_pqributors
unofficially
:known,...as.? the "t1ite Pres-
icient's iikr'guaranteed
ra7riMirgra: from President
Johnson to a White House so-
cial function,-
The First Lady's press sec-
retary, Elizabeth Carpenter,
'called the Claim "ridiculous!'
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Presidential press secretary
Bill D. Moyers said:
"That charge by Mr. Evans
and Mr. Novak is so absurd as
not to warrant a comment."
"Is there an 'Elite Pres-
ident's Club'?" a reporter
asked.
I don't know of one," Moy-
ers said.
'Is there a $10,000 contri-
butors club?"
Is there anyone who has
ever given $10,000 to the Dem-
ocratic Party, who has not
been invited to the White
House?" another reporter
asked.
'Any further questions?"
Moyers responded., ? '
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