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...confirmed by the Senate to succeed him as Attorney General. Equally assailed was the trustbusting reputation of Richard McLaren, Mitchell's former antitrust chief and now a federal judge. Over it all loomed the blemished image of a hard-drinking, tart-tongued ITT lobbyist, Dita D. Beard, who was ill in a Denver hospital and unable to testify. It was her memo, as reported by Anderson, that described the supposed deal...
...Dita Beard believable...
Liszka's testimony became suspect when he admitted talking to Justice Department officials about it both before and after visiting Mrs. Beard in Denver. Moreover it was learned that U.S. Attorneys had recently investigated him on charges of fraud in Medicare billings (he was subsequently cleared), and was still considering similar accusations against his doctor-wife Katherine...
Nunn appeared as a surprise witness to describe Mrs. Beard as "obsessed about losing her job" at the party and as one who "drinks quite heavily." He said that Mrs. Beard repeatedly tried to get Mitchell to talk about ITT, claiming the company was getting "a damn rotten deal." But each time Mitchell brushed her off, Nunn said, and Mitchell told her that "he didn't want to hear any more about it." Then Mrs. Beard became ill, collapsed in her motel room and had to be revived. In her memo, however, Mrs. Beard claimed she learned, partly through...
Meanwhile questions mounted concerning Mrs. Beard, who had dropped out of sight two days after Anderson published her memo. She had told a California Congressman that "where I'm going they won't be able to find me, and I won't be able to talk to them." Late last week, however, she was reported to be in the cardiac unit of the Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Center in Denver. Clearly Mrs. Beard, a divorcee of 53 with five children, and one of Washington's more colorful lobbyists, holds the key to many of the uncertainties surrounding...