Word: katzenbach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson used to tell intimates that he blamed Cubans for Kennedy's death. Last week, the Castro connection was the chief topic of testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations from an all-star cast that included, remarkably, Castro, ex-CIA Director Richard Helms, former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and the three surviving members of the Warren Commission: former President Gerald Ford, former Kennedy Adviser John J. McCloy and former Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky...
Part of the struggle is a fight over information-the Government asking for vast amounts, the company often resisting. "It can be a huge job," says Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General and now the IBM vice president in charge of the legal defense. "Sometimes plaintiffs ask for something we don't have-we'd have to ask every salesman in every branch office-because it's not the sort of information that the company needs to run itself. Or sometimes they ask for a file from the early '60s, and those files are crated...
...other side, one top-ranking federal trustbuster, not mentioning IBM by name, publicly complained about being "drowned in a sea of paper." Katzenbach recently protested to a congressional committee that IBM has not stalled the trial except for "a day off occasionally for firm picnics." But a number of complications have been caused by IBM tactics. The company chewed up time authenticating documents from its own files, and it unsuccessfully argued "privilege" to the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent U.S. use of documents obtained by another antitrust litigator. On the other hand, the Government once so mishandled IBM documents that...
...paper-shuffling marathon has had telling effect. Conceding that the IBM case "wears people out," Justice Department Lead Counsel Raymond Carlson recently announced he would retire this fall (Katzenbach, too, admits he is "sick to death of this," and is retiring in four years). A new federal team, the third on the case, will cross-examine IBM witnesses. The Government wants to take 200 to 300 new depositions, in part to acquaint new prosecutors with details of the case. Two weeks ago, a youthful Government attorney asked such confusing questions of a friendly witness that Judge Edelstein, amid snickering from...
...what "market" is involved. Raymond Carlson, 52, the Justice Department's chief lawyer for the case, contends that IBM controls a dominant 70% of the market for general-purpose computers and related equipment. IBM lawyers, led by Manhattan Attorney Thomas Barr, 44, and former Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, reply that the true market in which the company competes is the much broader one for all kinds of electronic data-processing equipment, and that in any case a 70% share has not constituted a monopoly in previous cases...