H.R. Haldeman, future Watergate conspirator, and - in this 1964 photo - future UCLA Alumni Association President, holds a check related to fundraising for Pauley Pavillion. The semi-official recent coffee table book history of UCLA - "UCLA: The First Century" - has very little else about Haldeman and nothing about John Erlichman, another Watergate conspirator and alum. Indeed, UCLA seems to have been a farm team for Watergate's major league in a less boosterish article that was highlighted in LAObserved today:
See the article at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk//commentisfree/2012/jun/17/richard-nixon-watergate-conspirators-40-anniversary. [Title: "How a
dead dog came back to bite Richard Nixon's Watergate conspirators: Nixon
operatives Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman pioneered their dirty tricks on the
UCLA campus – baiting reds like me."
The article is by a former managing editor of the Daily Bruin and gives
a rather different view of UCLA student life in the 1950s than found in the semi-official history.]
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