Word: itt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the White House began a coordinated counterattack, mobilizing Republican Senators, the Republican National Committee and the Justice Department in an effort to discredit Anderson, his charges and the press coverage of the ITT case. Most dramatically, ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, from the Denver hospital where she is said to be suffering from severe angina pectoris, issued a statement disavowing her now famous memo as a forgery, "a false and salacious document." Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska damned the hearings as "this smear-a-day campaign" brought on "because of a spurious document dredged up by the Louella Parsons...
...antitrust litigation. Last week's first witness, former Attorney General John Mitchell, approached the proceedings with a certain contemptuous coldness. Then, with a grim voice and a slightly shaking hand, Mitchell read a five-page preliminary statement. He denied categorically that he had played any role in the ITT antitrust settlement or in the selection of San Diego as the Republican Convention city...
...Mitchell conceded that he had met with ITT President Harold Geneen for 35 minutes on Aug. 4, 1970, at Geneen's request. "I assented to the meeting," Mitchell said, "on the express condition that the pending ITT litigation would not be discussed." According to Mitchell, Geneen argued that the Justice Department was prosecuting corporations merely for their "bigness." Mitchell claimed that the discussion was "entirely theoretical," yet at the time it was held, the antitrust division had only four "bigness" cases pending; three were against ITT. Mitchell also declared that twice last April he had met with ITT Director...
...another key question, California Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke had previously claimed that he saw Mitchell in mid-May and told him of the ITT commitment to back the convention in San Diego. If that is so, then Mitchell knew of the ITT convention offer weeks before his antitrust division agreed to the out-of-court merger settlement. "Mr. Reinecke must have had me mixed up with someone else," Mitchell told the committee, and insisted that he had seen him in April and September. Before Mitchell's appearance, Reinecke changed his story and denied talking to Mitchell in May. Instead...
...most eagerly awaited answers involved Mitchell's relationship with ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, who claimed in her confidential memo to her corporate superiors that Mitchell was "definitely helping us" with the ITT settlement. Mitchell's response was swift and curt. Mrs. Beard approached him three times at a Kentucky Derby party in Louisville, he said, and on the third sally, "I told her in rather harsh terms that I didn't appreciate her approaching me." His message was: shove...