Word: itt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defendant's misguided loyalty seems a shaky basis for judicial compassion. That could be a rationale for going easy on most of the Watergate offenders. Kleindienst's offense was to testify-falsely-that the President had never applied any pressure on him in the celebrated ITT antitrust cases. Later he admitted that at one point, Nixon had ordered him to drop a Supreme Court appeal with the admonition: "You son of a bitch, don't you understand the English language?" Certainly the Senate committee had been totally deceived by his testimony. But Hart fined Kleindienst only...
...would quickly bore a television audience. St. Clair argues that the hearings are not "substantial" and would not hurt Nixon's case, while leaks of information are unfair to his position. Still retaining control of the committee, Chairman Rodino intends to pursue inquiries into such areas as the ITT and milk price support controversies in closed meetings...
...year, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's staff has investigated whether ITT Corp.'s pledge of financial sup port for the 1972 Republican National Convention influenced a controversial antitrust settlement in the company's favor. Last week, in a letter to a Congressman who had complained that the ITT probe appeared dormant, Jaworski disclosed that his staff had uncovered no evidence of any criminal conduct by ITT executives in the case...
...Jaworski said that his staff is still investigating whether ITT improperly influenced the Internal Revenue Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission. His office is also continuing its inquiry of possible perjury by ITT executives and former federal officials in the case. Last month former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failing to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Nixon ordered him not to appeal an antitrust court decision favoring ITT. He asks only that he have two olives in his martinis at the end of his 16-hour days and that when...
...oldest of the Nieman Fellows at 39, Matthews said his biggest scoop was the first major ITT story in August 1971. The article linked an antitrust settlement in favor of the ITT with conferences ITT executives had with Nixon administration officials...