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...G.O.P. convention costs -the Justice Department had dropped antitrust suits against the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. The President was only indirectly involved, but the accusations-so far unproved -were aimed at his closest adviser, former Attorney General John Mitchell, and Mitchell's successor-designate, Richard Kleindienst...
...following day Anderson took out after Kleindienst in his column. The Attorney General-designate, he charged, had lied outright last year when he denied-in reply to a letter from Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O'Brien-any connection between the convention cash and the antitrust settlement and insisted that neither he nor Mitchell had played any role in the department's negotiations with ITT. On the contrary, Anderson wrote, Kleindienst had in fact held several meetings on the case with ITT Director Felix Rohatyn before the settlement was reached...
...G.O.P. responded to the Anderson columns with slightly red-faced outrage. Mitchell flatly denied any prior knowledge of ITT underwriting for the convention. Kleindienst, who had been expecting routine confirmation by the Senate next week, quickly requested that the Senate Judiciary Committee, which had earlier given him a 13-0 vote of approval, reopen public hearings on his qualifications so that he might refute the charges...
Crucial Concession. Kleindienst showed up before the committee accompanied by McLaren and Rohatyn. All three denied any wrongdoing. Kleindienst insisted that he knew nothing about the ITT convention contribution until it became public knowledge "on or about Dec. 3" of last year. He also said that he had had nothing to do with the negotiation of the settlement agreed to by McLaren's Antitrust Division. He did, though, admit to several meetings with Rohatyn to discuss "some of the economic consequences" of the suit-meaning the impact on the stock market if the ITT-Hartford merger fell through...
...testimony by Kleindienst, Rohatyn and McLaren was not too well synchronized. In his statement, Kleindienst conceded that, besides Rohatyn, he knew one other ITT employee, a neighbor named John Ryan, who was deputy director of the corporation's Washington office, and whom he had met a few times at parties. But, he said, they had never discussed ITT's troubles with the Antitrust Division. Later, while McLaren was answering questions, Rohatyn and Kleindienst held a whispered consultation, after which Kleindienst cut off the questioning to announce: "My memory has been refreshed." Yes, he said, he had talked...