Word: antitrusters
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...CASE. This investigation-into whether there was any connection between ITT'S offer of $200,000 to the Republican Convention and the company's antitrust settlement with the Justice Department-is directed by handsome Joseph J. Connolly. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Connolly, 32, has served on the staffs of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in 1967 and of Solicitor General Erwin Griswold from...
...Watergate, Ford said that newsmen were "the most significant contributors" to the exposure of the scandal. Ford said he could not imagine himself making a "hard-line speech" attacking journalists, much less trying to intimidate them, as some White House staffers had done, by advocating the punitive use of antitrust laws or the Internal Revenue Service...
...indiscretion. But that did not alter the substance of the story, whose accuracy the White House did not deny. Quite properly, a White House statement said that Nixon had every right to set "antitrust policy." However, the statement asserted that Nixon had only discussed such policy with Kleindienst, rather than ordering any action. It pointed out that the appeal had, in fact, proceeded-but it failed to note that Nixon was threatened with top-level resignations in his Justice Department if he had not changed his mind...
White House Speechwriter Patrick Buchanan said that legislation is needed "to break the power of the networks." Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren chided CBS and NBC for their handling of the latest story on the ITT antitrust case. On NBC'S Today, Son-in-Law David Eisenhower said that the "irresponsibility" of news reporting "has been matched by the irresponsibility of the people they may quote...
...ploys, such as attempts to plant stories expressing the Administration line, are accepted public relations practice). Instead of making "shotgun" responses to news items, Magruder advocated pointing the "rifle" of Government agencies, as he put it, at newsmen's heads. He wanted the Administration to employ "the Antitrust Division [of the Justice Department] to investigate various media relating to antitrust violations." Just the "possible threat of antitrust violations," Magruder added, "would be effective in changing their views." The Internal Revenue Service also struck Magruder as a useful tool for controlling press coverage: "Just a threat of IRS investigation will...