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...Democrats and Republicans on the committee thrust and parried in the dramatic duel, the testimony turned complex. Only a few basic facts had not yet been disputed. The Government, under the aggressive McLaren, had begun moving against ITT in 1969, trying to prevent the nation's eighth largest industrial corporation from expanding. McLaren, determined to pursue the issues to the Supreme Court, wanted clarification of the Government's powers to limit the growth of conglomerates-a matter on which the court had never ruled. In the early summer of 1971, San Diego had little interest in bidding...
...refreshed his memory since the week before. Now he conceded that he had talked to the chief White House troubleshooter on relations with corporations, Peter Flanigan (see box, next page). "Mr. Flanigan was simply a conduit," McLaren said. Flanigan obtained a report on the financial impact that ITT would sustain if it was required to divest itself of Hartford Fire Insurance Co., as McLaren had been insisting it must. The analysis helped change McLaren's mind. "I read the report and found it persuasive," McLaren said...
...consultant on Wall Street. Ramsden spent just two days analyzing the $7 billion-a-year conglomerate, was paid $242-and delivered his report to Flanigan rather than the Justice Department. California Democrat John Tunney asked whether the fact that Ramsden's firm manages some 200,000 shares of ITT stock would affect Ramsden's objectivity. "No," replied McLaren, "it wouldn't bother me a bit." But could not a negative report by Ramsden have adversely affected the stock's value? "I have no comment," said McLaren. The angry McLaren attributed his reversal to this report...
...wrote it. He said that when she approached Mitchell at a Kentucky Derby party last May in the mansion of then Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn. Mitchell gave her "a dressing down such as I never heard in my life." He told her to limit any discussion of ITT to "proper channels...
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...