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...began with Columnist Jack Anderson's charge that the Administration last summer settled antitrust suits against ITT in exchange for a $400,000 pledge by an ITT subsidiary to help underwrite the Republican National Convention in San Diego. The settlement was relatively favorable to ITT, though by no means a bonanza, and no specific quid pro quo arrangement has been proved. Indeed, it seemed naive to suggest that a superconglomerate with assets of $6.7 billion would try to buy the favor of the Department of Justice for such a comparatively trifling sum-or that it could be successful...
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...