Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...settlement of a major antitrust case on terms relatively favorable to ITT. That case reached some kind of high point last week in one of the strangest Senate hearings ever held. Testifying from her Denver hospital bed, propped up on pillows and hooked up to heart monitoring equipment, ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard "categorically" but unconvincingly denied that she had written the celebrated memo released by Columnist
...expose artist this week is complemented by an exclusive news story of our own that appears in the Nation section. Chicago Correspondent Ted Hall obtained a lengthy-and salty-interview in Denver with Dita Beard, the woman who, because of Jack Anderson, may be the most famous lobbyist...
...Lobbyist Dita Beard agreed last week to talk about her past with TIME Correspondent Ted Hall. It was only days before she was to face a grilling by U.S. Senators investigating Columnist Jack Anderson's charges that she had written a memo linking the Nixon Administration's settlement of an antitrust case against ITT with a company contribution to the Republican National Convention (see THE PRESS). The rumbustious Mrs. Beard, 53, refused to discuss her role in the ITT controversy, but was not at all shy about revealing intimate, if sometimes confused details of her earlier days. Hall...
That brought Dita up to the point of becoming a lobbyist for ITT. Throughout her reminiscing, she remained good humored and spoke with a strong voice. "When my health was good, I wasn't afraid of anything," Dita said in parting. "Not even of that bunch of little bums coming out here. But I don't know how I'm going to face...
...theory persists that her memo, which claimed wide-ranging contacts and influence, was sheer bravado, "papering a job" with a name-dropping report to convince an employer that his interests are getting extensive and impressive care. Said one senior lobbyist: "For a job like this, one does not hire a $30,000-a-year flunky to swing a billion dollar deal." Besides, he added, "You never, never write it down. That's the first rule of the business...